Leesburg, Va. — The Potomac Falls High School girls basketball team hangs their hats on their defense. After holding opponents to less than 32 points per game last season—more than 13 points less than the district average—the Panthers showed why they’re a defensive juggernaut when they opened their 2020 campaign in Leesburg on December 22. After falling into an early deficit due to the three-ball, Potomac Falls moved away from their traditional zone defense, playing man-to-man for a large portion of the second half, collecting 18 steals, blocking 7 shots, and disrupting the Riverside shooters, as the Panthers edged the…
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Owen Gotimer
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.
Leesburg, Va. — After leading most of the game, the Dominion Titans found themselves in an unfamiliar position with less than two minutes to play as Loudoun County had not only erased a double-digit deficit but had taken the lead. Knowing his team needed a big play, Dominion senior guard Aidan Edwards buried a three pointer—his third of the game—as the Titans retook the lead. On their very next possession, the Titans broke the Captains’ press and found senior forward Justin Mann wide open under the basket where Mann finished with an emphatic slam dunk. Under normal conditions, that dunk…
Ashburn, Va. — Esha Nagireddi has been tumbling since she was toddling. When Nagireddi was just three years old, her mom signed her up for gymnastics, and now 15 years later, she’ll tumble her way to Spartansburg, South Carolina where she’ll join the Converse College Acrobatics & Tumbling team beginning in the 2021-2022 academic year. “My mom always wanted to do gymnastics when she was a kid, but in India they never had the facilities for that,” the 5-foot-3 Nagireddi said. “I’ve been dreaming of being on a college team since I was five years old, and I’m so grateful…
Aldie, Va. — When he was 5 years old, Tristan Shah started tossing a baseball with his older brother in their backyard. That game of catch quickly turned into Shah playing organized Little League baseball before he started playing travel ball for the Aldie Senators when he was just 10 years old. It was after his first season with the Senators that he knew he wanted to play baseball at the next level. “After my first season, I knew I wanted to play college baseball. I have worked extremely hard over the past ten years and have always wanted to…
Leesburg, Va. — From the time she kicked her first soccer ball as a toddler, Livie Sabloff dreamed about playing soccer at the next level. Throughout her time at Riverside High School, Sabloff worked hard—both on the field and in the classroom—and caught the eye of some of the most well-respected college coaches in the country. With the fate of her senior season at Riverside still up in the air due to COVID-19, the senior made sure she hadn’t played her last competitive soccer game when she committed to play at the University of Chicago starting in the 2021-2022 school…
Leesburg, Va. — Over his high school career, Matei Fitz has played 38 varsity games and appeared in two state championships. In 2019, an impressive junior season earned him a spot on the VHSL 4A all-state first team while also picking up VHSL Region 4C, Dulles District, and Cheers and LoCoSports All-LoCo Defensive Player of the Year honors. That junior campaign also solidified him as a top recruit out of northern Virginia which came with nearly two dozen offers to play Division I football. On September 5, the 6-foot-2, 270-pound defensive tackle gave the purple and gold Dukes cause for…