By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor Ashburn (Jan. 12, 2015) – Being a first year head varsity basketball coach can be intimidating for anyone. Adding the fact the school you got your first head coaching gig at is a first-year school with a young student body makes it that much more difficult. But Rock Ridge High School girls varsity basketball coach Jaclyn Cummings is making the most of her opportunity.
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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.
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor Leesburg (Jan. 6, 2015) – On the same day Loudoun County Public School students returned to school after their winter break, the Loudoun County High School and Tuscarora High School boys and girls varsity basketball teams met in a doubleheader friendly to duke out the first round of the Battle of the Burg. A late Lady Husky run was thwarted by Loudoun County super freshman Natalie Villaflor who scored 16 second-half points after seeing limited first half action as the Lady Raiders won game one, 52-49. On the boys side, Tuscarora head coach Al Smith’s…
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor Ashburn (Dec. 31, 2014) – The Oakton High School Cougars girls varsity basketball team might just be the best shooting team in northern Virginia. The Broad Run High School Lady Spartans knew going into the 2014 Maroon & Gold Classic Tournament championship, they would need to contain the Cougar shooters, but Oakton junior Alex Marquis and senior Lindsey Abed were lights out from downtown, lifting the Cougars to a 66-45 win over the Lady Spartans to claim the tournament title.
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor Ashburn (Dec. 30, 2014) – After an early departure from the first annual Maroon & Gold Classic girls basketball tournament in 2013, the host Broad Run High School Lady Spartans are headed to the 2014 Maroon & Gold Classic championship game. On Dec. 29, the Lady Spartans defeated George C. Marshall High School, 53-33, in the semifinal round in Ashburn.
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor Ashburn (Dec. 29, 2014) — While studying towards his Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Media Studies at the University of South Carolina, Sean Gundry began his high school basketball coaching career as an assistant boys coach at Blythewood High School. After earning his degree, Gundry moved back to northern Virginia where he joined the staff at his alma mater Fairfax High School as a girls assistant varsity and JV and freshman head coach on and off from 2008 through 2012. In May 2012, Gundry — whose mom and uncles graduated from…
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor Ashburn (Dec. 28, 2014) – Broad Run High School junior forward Mariah Leonard knew she would have an opportunity to shine in the primetime game of the 2014 Maroon & Gold Classic basketball tournament’s quarterfinal round against her former Spartan assistant coach and now Rock Ridge High School head coach Jaclyn Cummings. “We were on a little bit of a losing streak, and we really wanted to break it,” Leonard said. “In the locker room, I just told them we need to go out there and play like we can, and we did.”