Purcellville, Va. — Spring sports kicked off in Loudoun on February 20. And while student-athletes began practice in the unusually warm February outdoors, the Loudoun Valley High School Vikings basketball team hosted what looked like an indoor track meet with the Charlottesville Black Knights in a VHSL 4A West region quarterfinal game. The Vikings have run teams out of the gym all season but on this night, they found a Charlottesville team willing and able to run with them. Valley sprinted out to an early lead, held off a few strong challenges from the Black Knights and pulled away at the…
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Nokesville (February 20, 2017) — For the second consecutive year, Freedom High School junior Sydney Wrighte has come away from her final high school meet of the season as the VHSL state champion on February 18 in Nokesville. The individual “open” state championship meet consists of student-athletes from all classifications in VHSL, making Wrighte repeating as state champion that much more impressive. On February 17, Wrighte also led the Lady Eagles to a runner-up finish in the VHSL 5A state team championship. Nine other LoCo student-athletes joined Wrighte at the individual open state championship with Heritage High School sophomore Leah…
(February 19, 2017) – Conference 28 has selected its all-conference team for boys basketball. William Monroe High School senior Kam’Ron McCain was named Player of the Year. William Monroe High School head coach Brett Maynard was named Coach of the Year. All Conference 28 Boys Basketball First Team G Daijordan Brown JR Culpeper G Cam Ford SR Warren County G Michael Gray FR James Monroe F Bailey Hutchens SR Brentsville G Kam’Ron McCain SR William Monroe C Jakai Moore SO Manassas Park F Jason Odom JR Riverside F Anthony Terry SR William Monroe All Conference 28 Boys Basketball Second Team G Jalen Anderson JR William Monroe G Eric…
(February 19, 2017) – Conference 28 has selected its all-conference team for girls basketball. Brentsville District High School senior Ada Stanley was named Player of the Year. Culpeper County High School head coach Tony Majors was named Coach of the Year. All Conference 28 Girls Basketball First Team F Samantha Brunelle SO William Monroe C Lauren Eichenlaub SO Riverside G Megan Garman SR Brentsville G Claire Mocarski SR Culpeper G Kima Robinson SR Warren County G Kayla Sakyi SR Culpeper F Ada Stanley SR Brentsville F Nikea Whitmore SR Skyline All Conference 28 Girls Basketball Second Team G Alexis Clark JR James Monroe G Cierra Davis FR Manassas…
(February 17, 2017) – Conference 21B has selected its all-conference team for girls basketball. Park View High School senior Christina Adlam and Loudoun County High School junior Natalie Villaflor were named co-Players of the Year. Heritage High School head coach Reggie Barnes was named Coach of the Year. All Conference 21B Girls Basketball First Team G Christina Adlam SR Park View F Corrianna Calloway SR Heritage F Celine Fink JR Loudoun Valley G Emily Miller SR Loudoun County G Lila Najmyar SR Dominion G Julia Ng JR Loudoun County C Natalie Villaflor JR Loudoun County G Lana Zjajo SR Heritage All Conference 21B Girls Basketball Second Team G Olivia Badura…
By Curtis Atkinson LoCoSports Contributor [twitter-follow screen_name=’CurtisAtkinson’] Purcellville (February 17, 2017) — The saying goes that familiarity breeds contempt. There was no love lost between the Loudoun Valley High School Vikings and Heritage High School Pride as the Conference 21B rivals met up for the fourth time this season – and third in the past three weeks – to determine the conference tournament champion on February 16 in Purcellville. The Vikings sought their fifth conference tournament title in the past six years while the Pride hoped to avenge a loss last week in the regular season tiebreaker to become “Kings…