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…
Author: Owen Gotimer
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.
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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…
Leesburg, Va. — While heading into seventh grade, Emily Tyler decided to give rec field hockey a try. A year later, Tyler made a travel team the same year that the VHSL announced they’d be recognizing field hockey as a Tier 2 sport. Then a year after that, Tyler scored the first hat trick in Loudoun County High School history. And now just five years after she picked up a field hockey stick for the first time, Tyler has made a commitment to continue her field hockey career at Bridgewater College starting in the 2021-2022 school year. “Athletes dedicate so…
Ashburn, Va. — From Vienna, Austria to Albany, New York to Ashburn, Virginia to Athens, Greece back to Ashburn, Virginia, Katrina Potak’s softball journey has been unlike any other. After first picking up a bat and ball while she was living in Greece, Potak’s family relocated back to Ashburn in 2011, where she became a member of the Broad Run High School softball program. Now, with a single high school season standing between her and college, Potak has made an early verbal commitment to relocate once again, this time to New Haven, Connecticut, where she will continue her softball career…
Leesburg, Va. — Less than 10 minutes into the game, the Washington Spirit found themselves in a predicament. After an early attack by forward Tara McKeown in the 2’, the Spirit were on the defensive when NJ/NY Gotham FC forward Midge Purce earned a free kick just outside the top of the box. Spirit defender Sam Staab was shown a red card on the play and exited the game in the 7’. Down a player for what ended up being the final 92 minutes, the Spirit put up a valiant effort, holding the lead for more than 10 minutes in…