By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’BigO_Gotimer’] Leesburg (May 22, 2017) — Most second year programs are content winning a few games. Some excited to go .500. But the girls lacrosse team at Riverside High School is different. In the program’s first season in 2016, the Lady Rams won more than a few games, finished four games above .500, and even hosted a group playoff game. Their young team was primed and ready to make a statement in 2017. On May 22, Riverside – who finished the regular season undefeated – got the moment they had worked so hard for…
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.
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’BigO_Gotimer’] Leesburg (May 20, 2017) — Coming off an early week loss to Loudoun County High School, which ended their run at the program’s first regular season conference title, the Heritage High School baseball team exacted revenge on their crosstown rivals on May 19, as the No. 3 Pride put on a display, upending the No. 2 Raiders, 10-5, in Leesburg. “We were mad. We came out with fire,” Heritage junior centerfielder Colin Shea said. “We didn’t want to go home. We weren’t ready for that. None of us are ready for that.” In…
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’BigO_Gotimer’] Leesburg (May 17, 2017) — Pitching with a lead is something any pitcher knows helps relieve pressure. And what better way for Loudoun County High School junior starter Ben Bradford to get that early relief in a must-win game over Leesburg-rival Heritage High School on May 15 than by way of a two-run homerun off the bat of junior shortstop Will Schroeder in the bottom half of the first inning. The Raiders carried Schroeder’s momentous home run and Bradford’s 6.2 innings of two-run baseball to victory over the Pride, 7-2, in the Conference…
Purcellville, Va. — Loudoun Valley High School graduate Blair Brown Lipsitz (2006) has been named a Virginia High School League Hall of Fame inductee for the Class of 2017. Lipsitz – who led the Lady Vikings to a VHSL AA state championship title in 2004 – is one of the most accomplished high school volleyball players in Virginia State history. “Being named a Hall of Famer is a really cool honor and really a great testament to my team and coaches at Loudoun Valley,” Lipsitz said. “My teammates and I all bought into our goal early on in high school and…
Purcellville (May 5, 2017) – Owen Gotimer photographed Loudoun Valley High School’s baseball game against Heritage High School in Purcellville on Tuesday, May 2 and posted this photo gallery with 33 photos! The Vikings took advantage of five walks in the first three innings to push across six early runs en route to a 7-5 Conference 21B win over the Pride.
Loudoun County, Va. — Two pieces of sandwich bread, a smear of creamy peanut butter and a spoonful of homemade strawberry jam. The peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It’s a cheap, simple and classic sandwich that dates all the way back to 1901 when Julia Davis Chandler suggested pairing peanut butter and jelly in the Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics. The PB&J rose in popularity over the next 100 years. However, at least in my house, I feel like a peanut butter and jelly often went overlooked as boring while I was growing up. But the…