Leesburg, Va. — To host a region championship in your program’s first year is impressive; to win one is unheard of. Well, the Heritage High School field hockey team scratched their name into the record book, defeating Fauquier High School, 2-1, in the VHSL 4A West region championship on November 3 in Leesburg in the in the Pride field hockey team’s opening season. “We’ve been trying to get into the schools for so long, and now that we’re finally here, it’s amazing that we have gotten so far,” Heritage sophomore midfielder Josie Rossbach said. “These schools have had field hockey…
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 (November 5, 2016) – As a cloud of red, white and blue chalk filled the air, the Heritage High School football team knew they were on their way to a decisive win over rival Loudoun County High School on November 5 in Leesburg. The Pride used a balanced offensive attack to weave through the Raiders’ defense en route to a 37-14 victory, earning a VHSL 4A West region playoff berth in the process. “Beating a rival is always big. We expected to win, we came out to win,” Heritage senior end Darick…
Loudoun County, Va. — Twitter is the way high school student-athletes and college coaches communicate. Limitations placed on phone calls and text messages and expenses incurred and time spent on face-to-face meetings have created a shift in traditional recruiting measures to new-school recruiting tactics headlined by the use of Twitter’s direct message feature. Direct messages, like text messages, push notifications to a mobile phone’s homepage, but for some reason the former is still legal under NCAA regulations. Face-to-face meetings allow coaches and prospective student-athletes to learn basic personality characteristics about each other, but every coach, athlete and recruiter interviewed in the…
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’BigO_Gotimer’] Ashburn (October 25, 2016) – Broad Run High School senior Georgiana Voiebuna has made a commitment to continue her volleyball career at Cleveland State University starting in the 2017-2018 school year. “It makes me more responsible and excited for the next chapter in my life as a student-athlete in college,” the 5-foot-4 Voiebuna said. “It also gives me satisfaction knowing that my parents are proud of me once more, seeing their dedication and sacrifices in supporting my dreams and aspirations pay off a little.” Voiebuna’s dreams will take her to Cleveland State next…
Loudoun County, Va. — After high school coaches, external recruiters and social media bridge the gap between high school student-athlete and college coaches, the recruit and coach must work together to build a relationship and, ultimately, decide if both sides are a good fit for each other. For college coaches in the social media age, the first step in making the final decision is often pre-screening the student-athlete on Twitter to find out if the recruit has the attitude, the character and the personality to fit in with the team’s current chemistry and model. Twitter makes the initial screening easier for…
Leesburg, Va. — In a game dominated by hard-hitting outsides, it was only fitting that the final point of the match came off the hand of a setter. On October 17 in Leesburg, Loudoun County High School junior defensive specialist Rebecca Frey dug a tough hit by Stone Bridge High School late in the fourth game. Lady Raiders’ junior setter Andersen Vaughan knocked it over the net falling between a number of Lady Bulldogs, who felt their kill had touched down and that the point had already been won. However, the officials saw differently awarding the point to the Lady Raiders…