Boys Basketball: Potomac Falls' Graves Named D4 State Player of the Year

Greg Graves at his college signing earlier this year with NCAA D1 Mount Saint Mary's

(March 27, 2012) - Potomac Falls High School senior Greg Graves, who finished his boys basketball career with the Panthers with 1,000+ points and rebounds, has been named the Virginia High School Coaches Association Division 4 Player of the Year for the state of Virginia.

The Panthers won state titles in 2010 and 2011 with Graves and made it to the state semifinals this past season.

Also honored were Briar Woods senior Myles Tate and Loudoun Valley senior John Yoxthimer as Honorable Mention all-state. See the full selections:

Boys Basketball: Potomac Falls' Graves Named Region II D4 Player of the Year; Loudoun Valley's Dawson is Coach of the Year

(Feb. 29, 2012) - Potomac Falls High School senior Greg Graves, who led the Panthers to a third consecutive Region II Division 4 boys basketball title, has been named the region's D4 Player of the Year in a vote of the coaches. Loudoun Valley's Chad Dawson, who led the Vikings to a Dulles District regular season and tournament titles as well as regional runner-up, is D4 Coach of the Year.

Region II Boys Basketball 2011-12
First Team
Ya Ya Anderson (Fluvanna) SR
Rze Culbreath (Millbrook) JR
Greg Graves (Potomac Falls) SR
Myles Tate (Briar Woods) SR
John Yoxthimer (Loudoun Valley) SR

Second Team
Xavier Colbert (Liberty) JR
Brad Gilson (Woodgrove) SR
Robbie Lawler (Handley) SR
Jhalil Mosley (Monticello) JR
Terry Wood (Sherando) SR

D3 Player of the Year: Ya Ya Anderson (Fluvanna)
D4 Player of the Year: Greg Graves (Potomac Falls)

D3 Coach of the Year: Munro Rateau (Fluvanna)
D4 Coach of the Year: Chad Dawson (Loudoun Valley)

Boys Basketball: Tis the Season for Milestones! Park View's Ryan McCarter Breaks Billy King's 28-Year-old Scoring Mark; LC's Anderson, LV's Yoxthimer, PF's Graves, WG's Gilson Achieve Records

Ryan McCarter

(Dec. 22, 2011) - The snow may not be falling in this balmiest of winter's but the boys basketball records are dropping nightly in a milestone opening to the season with Park View High School senior Ryan McCarter breaking Billy King's 28-year-old school single game scoring mark with 44 points Wednesday in the Patriots 99-70 win at Dominion.

Also on Wednesday, Potomac Falls senior Greg Graves reached the 1,000-point career scoring mark as he scored 32 points with 15 rebounds as the Panthers finished on a 15-0 run to beat Broad Run, 66-53. Graves has an amazing 700 career rebounds as well!

McCarter's record-breaking and Graves' milestone are not alone as Loudoun County junior Michael Anderson set the Raiders single-game scoring record on Monday night with 43 points in a 76-65 win over Park View. And earlier in the season, Loudoun Valley senior John Yoxthimer broke a Viking school mark that had stood since the 1970s as he moved past Charles Warner career rebounding total of 457. Yoxthimer is also money to break the 1,000-point scoring mark this season.

And in the 1,000-point scoring milestone, Woodgrove coach Steve Douglas reports that Brad Gilson broke that milestone last week in a game against Heritage when Gilson's point totals from his freshman season are figured in with his sophomore year at Loudoun Valley and the past two seasons with new Woodgrove.

Boys Basketball: Two-Time Defending State Champion Potomac Falls, Off to 3-0 Start, Celebrates Graves Signing with Mount Saint Mary's

More photos from the Greg Graves signing celebration.

(Dec. 6, 2011) - The two-time Division 4 state champion Potomac Falls High School boys basketball has opened up the season 3-0 after winning the Broadway annual tip off tournament over the weekend but the Panthers still found time in the last week to celebrate senior Greg Graves' college signing with NCAA Division I Mount Saint Mary's.

Potomac Falls coach Jeff Hawes, just before the team cut a cake in honor of the 6-foot-7, 205-pound graves, said that the center is one of the area D1 basketball signing from a public high school in Loudoun.

Graves said he notified Mountaineers Coach Robert Burke of his choice in Oct., one day after returning from an official visit to the school in Emmitsburg, Md., and he then signed his Letter of Intent in Nov.

Graves averaged career-highs 15.6 points and 9.5 rebounds per game last year as the Panthers repeated their state title. Potomac Falls is the only boys program in Loudoun history to win a state basketball crown.

Boys Basketball: Potomac Falls Senior Graves to Play at Mount St. Mary's

Sterling (Nov. 1, 2011) - Potomac Falls High School senior center Greg Graves, who has helped the Panthers to back-to-back VHSL Division 4 boys basketball state titles, has verbally committed to play basketball for Mount St. Mary’s next fall, according to Matt Brooks of the Washington Post. Read the full article.

Updated college choice chart

Basketball: Potomac Falls Senior Graves Pulling Down the College Offers

Sterling (Aug. 22, 2011) - Potomac Falls High School senior Gregory Graves, who helped the Panthers to back-to-back VHSL Division 4 boys basketball state titles, has already hauled down four college offers with more schools taking interest in the 6-foot-7 talented player.

Graves, who has generated buzz this summer while playing with the Richmond-based Team Loaded AAU squad, holds offers from Longwood University, Manhattan College, Mount Saint Mary's and Northeastern.

Boys Basketball: Potomac Falls Senior Mihailovich Named D4 State Player of the Year, Panthers Hawes is Repeat as Coach of the Year

(Mar. 29, 2011) - The Potomac Falls High School historic back-to-back boys basketball state titles has reaped benefits as Panther senior Lukas Mihailovich has been named the Virginia High School Coaches Association Division 4 Player of the Year and Panther coach Jeff Hawes picked up his second straight Coach of the Year honor.

Panther junior Greg Graves was named second team all-state and Broad Run sophomore Nigel Johnson was honorable mention.

VHSCA Boys Basketball AA All-State 2010-11

First Team
Devonte Green, Brunswick SR (D3 Co-Player of the Year)
Ya Ya Anderson, Fluvanna JR (D3 Co-Player of the Year)
DJ Lewis, King George SR
Lukas Mihailovich, Potomac Falls SR (D4 Player of the Year)
Andrew Rowsey, Rockbridge SO
Patrick Cummings, Christiansburg SR

Second Team
Chris Knight, Broadway SR
MJ Pilson, Magna Vista SR
Carter Wright, Hidden Valley SR
Greg Graves, Potomac Falls JR
Shaq Rodney, Tabb SR

Honorable Mention
Malcolm Owens, EC Glass SR
Josh Majors, Culpepper JR
Trey Smith, Northside SR
Alex Graves, Waynesboro JR
Devin Call, Millbrook SR
Nigel Johnson, Broad Run SO
DaQuan Minor, Spotsylvania SR
Brandan Stith, Brunswick SO
Nick Doyle, Southampton JR

Division 3 Coach of the Year: Bryant Stith, Brunswick
Division 4 Coach of the Year: Jeff Hawes, Potomac Falls