College Corner: Heritage Grad Peters Connects for 100th Cornell Career Hit in His Return Home

College Corner by Owen Gotimer, Viva Loudoun College Intern
Arlington (March 19, 2013) - A three-year starter for the Cornell Big Red baseball squad, senior Brenton Peters returned home to Virginia for a pair of double headers last weekend against the George Washington Colonials.

With his 100th and 101st career collegiate base hits, Peters went 2 for 3 in the final contest of the series. Serving as the Big Red’s leadoff batter and starting second basemen since his sophomore year, he added two walks and a run scored in the final game in his return back to the D.C. metropolitan area where he played at Heritage High School in Leesburg.

Boys Basketball: Loudoun Valley 6-7 JR Paul Rowley Picks Up Ivy League Offer from Cornell University

(Feb. 26, 2013) - Loudoun Valley High School 6-foot-7 junior forward Paul Rowley picked up an Ivy League offer this morning according to coach Chad Dawson. Rowley, who has helped the Vikings to the state basketball quarterfinals for the second straight season had earlier gotten scholarship offers from Mount St. Mary's in Emmitsburg, Md. and Quinniiac University in Hamden, Conn.

College Corner: Leesburg Native Savage a Preseason All-American Pick at Cornell

Shane Savage (Right) is all smiles after a record-breaking 2011 season at Cornell

College Corner with Dan Sousa
(Aug. 2, 2012) - Leesburg native Shane Savage, a senior WR at Cornell, has been picked by College Sports Madness as a preseason third-team All-American selection.

Savage was a consensus third-team FCA All-American (AP, Phil Stelle, College Sports Madness) and a first-team All-Ivy League receiver in 2011. He led the Ivy League in receptions (65), receiving yards (1,080) and receiving TDs (12).

College Corner: Flint Hill Grad Shane Savage Selected To Capital One Academic All-District Football Team at Cornell

Photo courtesy Cornell

College Corner with editor Noelle Dormio

(Nov 11, 2011) - Flint Hill grad Shane Savage, who ranks among Cornell's career leaders in every receiving category, has hauled in 50 passes for 732 yards and six touchdowns this season for the Big Red football team.

Savage had a pair of receiving touchdowns in the win over Wagner and also had 152 yards and two touchdowns against Ivy leader Harvard. He also had a 12-catch, 163-yard effort against Brown.

Savage has a reception in all 28 career varsity contests and has piled up 138 catches for 1,653 yards and 10 scores. In the classroom, Savage sports a 3.43 grade point average in Applied Economics and Management.

Read more about Savage.