By Owen GotimerLoCoSports Editor [twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] Ashburn (July 27, 2015) – Briar Woods High School rising senior Alexa Binckes has stayed firm on a commitment to continue her softball career under head coach Kim Schuette at Purdue University beginning in the 2016-2017 academic year. “I am most excited about getting on the beautiful Purdue campus and playing in a new stadium under the leadership of amazing coaches. The university is a perfect fit for my academic and athletic goals,” the 5-foot-9 Binckes said. “I cannot wait to provide leadership and play with all of the talented athletes and future recruits. The coaches have…
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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.
[twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] By Owen GotimerLoCoSports Editor (July 22, 2015) – This is a plea to the Virginia High School League: please put all of the Loudoun County Public Schools high schools into two athletic conferences. Under the new approved conference realignment for 2015-2017, the 15 public high schools in Loudoun will move from three to five different conferences. The largest gap between student populations at any two of the high schools in the 2015-2016 academic year will be Briar Woods High School (1,707) and Riverside High School (1,052). A 650 student population difference might be too much to play in…
[twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] By Owen GotimerLoCoSports Editor Leesburg (July 13, 2015) – Tuscarora High School rising senior Michala Pellegrino has stayed firm on early verbal commitment to continue her softball career at James Madison University starting in the 2016-2017 school year.
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] Purcellville (July 10, 2015) – Thirty years after first volunteering his services, Upper Loudoun Little League president Norris Beavers has stepped down. But he would not leave his longtime post without a bang. On July 7, Virginia District 16 Little League – the local level organization from which ULLL operates – presented Beavers with the first ever John B. Murphy Volunteer Service Award. John Murphy — who passed away on Sept. 7, 2014 – was a founding member of Central Loudoun Little League in Leesburg, instrumental in forming Dulles Little League in Ashburn and a…
Ashburn, Va. — After 19 years at the helm of the Broad Run High School baseball program, head coach Pat Cassidy has announced he is stepping down to spend more time with his family. While the Spartan head coach, Cassidy has earned district coach of the year awards five times and accumulated a 229-176 record even with Broad Run splitting three times over his two decade reign with the opening of Potomac Falls in 1997, Stone Bridge in 2000 and Freedom in 2005. Cassidy began volunteer coaching at his alma mater in 1996, becoming the head coach just a year…
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] Fairfax (June 16, 2015) – Before the top half of the seventh inning in the VHSL 5A state championship on June 13 in Fairfax, Stone Bridge High School starting pitcher Dave Mocabee had a simple message for Bulldog head coach Sam Plank: “Don’t come out to the mound. I’m finishing this game.” Plank held off on defying Mocabee – even after a leadoff home run by Marshall High School senior Will Brooke in the seventh – and let his junior settle in to finish up his complete game win, earning Stone Bridge their first baseball…