Leesburg, Va. — It was 437 days between snaps for the Tuscarora High School football team. After falling in the VHSL 4A State championship game on December 14, 2019, the fall football season was postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rescheduled for the spring of 2021. More than 14 months since the end of their 2019 campaign, the Huskies took full advantage of every opportunity they had in their return to competition, shutting out Loudoun Valley, 28-0, in front of a limited home crowd on February 23 in Leesburg. “For a lot of us, this is the…
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Owen Gotimer is an award-winning journalist and small business owner from Leesburg, Virginia. After graduating from Heritage High School, Owen spent his college years at Syracuse University, where he studied broadcast and digital journalism in the renowned Newhouse School of Public Communications, before earning a Masters degree in social media, culture, and society from the University of Westminster. Owen owns OG Media, a full-service marketing partner specializing in website design & development, content creation, and graphic design & print. Additionally, Owen is the president of of the Jeffrey C. Fowler Memorial Scholarship.
Ashburn, Va. — The bright lights of the state championship game didn’t rattle them. Fans in the stands for the first time all season didn’t faze them. And a red hot Green Run Stallions team entering their house with hopes of celebrating on their bus ride home to Virginia Beach didn’t scare them. Trailing by as many as 18 in the first quarter, the Stone Bridge Bulldogs never blinked. The Stone Bridge High School boys basketball team knew exactly what they needed to do: play their game, feed off the energy from the hometown crowd, and meticulously chip away at…
Ashburn, Va. — When a No. 1 seed hosts a No. 6 seed in an 8-team playoff tournament, it’s usually pretty clear cut as to what the result will be heading into the game. However, that wasn’t the case when Stone Bridge High School hosted Potomac Falls High School for the VHSL Region 5C championship game on February 12 in Ashburn. Entering the game, the No. 1 Bulldogs were red hot having won 7 in a row, but they knew they’d have their hands full with No. 6 Panthers, who are perennial state contenders. Knowing they’d need to grab the…
Ashburn, Va. — After back-to-back defensive masterpieces against two of the top scoring teams in Loudoun County, the Potomac Falls High School girls basketball team can finally say it: defense wins championships. No. 5 Potomac Falls held No. 2 Stone Bridge to a season low 28 points as the Panthers suffocated the Bulldogs’ offense to claim the program’s first VHSL Region 5C title, 32-28, on February 12 in Ashburn. “I’ve had great teams over the years, great kids, and they’ve all worked so hard,” 18th-year Potomac Falls head coach Lynn Ewald said. “It’s very rewarding being able to see it…
Purcellville, Va. — Beating a team once in a season is hard, beating a team twice is a challenge, and beating the same team three times in a season is rarely ever possible. Well the Loudoun Valley High School girls basketball team took it one game further, sweeping Tuscarora in their fourth game of the season en route to the VHSL Region 4C championship title. Led by sophomore forward Louis Volker and junior guards Jane Bodamer and Alison Pike, the Vikings used an explosive first quarter to jump out to a big lead and then held off the Huskies, 45-33,…
Leesburg, Va. — It took 65 years for the Loudoun County High School boys basketball team to win their first region title in 2020. Now, just a year later, the Captains will look to defend that title after rolling through Culpeper County High School, 68-22, in a VHSL Region 4C semifinal on February 9 in Leesburg. “We’ve had some slow starts offensively, so one of our big goals was to get mentally better,” Loudoun County head coach Mark Alexander said. “Our defense has been there; we knew that going in. Offensively, we wanted to be more efficient and take better…