News: Washington Post Releases All-Met Winter Selections

(April 5, 2013) - The Washington Post released its 2011-13 Winter All-Met selections and Loudoun was limited to just two first team selections among all sports, swimmer Kaleigh Rosenburg of Heritage and ice hockey player Brendan Walsh of Briar Woods.

Briar Woods ice hockey coach Bill Hughes did snag Coach of the Year honors after leading the Falcons to the NVSHL title.

Loudoun Selections:

Science: Loudoun Teen Making Waves in Quantum Teleportation

(March 11, 2012) - Meet a Loudoun high school senior is already making waves in the science field of quantum teleportation! Read the full story at Washington Post Local

Video: Washington Post's Paul Tenorio Profiles the Broad Run vs. Stone Bridge Football Match-up

Volleyball: Loudoun County Debuts at No. 1, Stone Bridge No. 3 and Heritage No. 10 in AllMet.com Top 10

(Sept. 7, 2011) - Loudoun County, the 4-time defending Virginia High School League state champions, have debuted at No. 1 in the Washington Post's Top 10 poll released on AllMet.com. Stone Bridge, AAA state runner-up last season, is No. 3 and Heritage, which just moved down to AA and the Dulles District, is No. 10.

Check out the full Top 10!

Football: Ashburn Teams Start Year Highly Ranked by Washington Post - Stone Bridge No. 2, Briar Woods No. 13, Broad Run No. 21

(Aug. 29, 2011) - Ashburn's claim to being one of the top area's in the state for football was strengthened once again as the Washington Post has Stone Bridge High School ranked No. 2 in their metro are preseason poll and Briar Woods is No. 13. Broad Run is on the cusp of making it three Ashburn teams in the Top 20 as the Spartans, coming off a big 51-7 win over Park View Friday, are on the bubble at No. 21.

Stone Bridge, which won a Division 5 state title in 2007 and finished state runner-up in 2009 and 2010. opens Thursday with a tough game at No. 17 Robinson. Briar Woods opens the year Friday by playing host to Broad Run in a match-up of the last three Division 4 state champions as Briar Woods won in 2010 and Broad Run took the title in 2008 and 2009.

Friday's big game in Ashburn, a rematch of last year's Region II title game won by Briar Woods by three points, is also a fundraiser for Broad Run grad Ryan Diviney, who remains in a coma after a beating at West Virginia nearly two years ago. The fundraiser, Battle for a Better Cause, includes T-shirt sales which will begin on Tuesday at the freshman and JV games at Broad Run. The goal Friday is to "white out" the stadium at Briar Woos with everybody wearing the Battle for a Better Cause t-shirts.

News: Briar Woods Jones and Karagiorgis Pick Up Postseason Softball Honors; Broad Run's Church All-Met Girls Soccer Player of Year

Special to VivaLoudoun
(June 15, 2011) - Briar Woods High School junior Macy Jones was named to the Washington Post All-Met first team, and senior teammate Kristina Karagiorgis was chosen as an honorable mention Tuesday, June 7.

Broad Run's Whitney Church was named the girls soccer Player of the Year for All-Met and Loudoun Valley's Gary McKay was tabbed golf Coach of the Year.

It was the second straight All-Met first-team honor for Jones and the first such honor for Karagiorgis.

Both Jones and Karagiorgis were instrumental in leading Briar Woods to its first-ever state softball championship this season.

Jones was dominant in the circle, posting a 23-4 record with a 0.39 earned run average. She struck out 349 batters, the sixth-highest single-season total in Virginia High School League history, and she allowed just 10 earned runs and 24 walks in 179 1/3 innings.
Jones was equally impressive at the plate, hitting .560 and posting an eye-popping .976 slugging percentage to go along with a .670 on-base percentage. She set a VHSL single-season record by scoring 51 runs, and she had 47 hits (tying for the fifth-most in VHSL single-season history) and nine triples (the second-highest season total in VHSL history). Additionally, Jones moved up to 7th on the VHSL career runs scored list (103) with another season left in her outstanding career.

Karagiorgis hit .469, slugged .750 and posted a .540 on-base percentage in her final season with the Falcons. She drove in a school-record 45 runs, which ties for the third-highest single-season total in VHSL history, and her 45 hits ranked just outside the VHSL top-ten list.
Karagiorgis also posted a 2-0 record in the circle, striking out 20 in 11 2/3 innings of work.

Loudoun Athletes Named All-Met in Spring 2011
Boys Lacrosse
HM: Matt Bukovac (Briar Woods), Mike Funk (Middleburg), Ryan Madigan (Broad Run), Dylan Maltz (Stone Bridge)

Girls Lacrosse
HM: Ellen Fuller (Woodgrove), Amber Kim (Freedom), Andrea Mustacchio (Loudoun Valley), Kayla Sleece (Stone Bridge), Mary Sydney Garrett (Briar Woods).

Boys Track:
HM: Juan Campos (Potomac Falls), Tommy Curtin (Loudoun County), Jonathan Russell (Broad Run).

Girls Track:
HM: Haley Springman (Stone Bridge).

Boys Soccer:
First Team: Kevin Reitzel (Broad Run)
Second Team: Luke Schierling (Stone Bridge), Jose Miguel Herrera (Park View)
HM: Abe Yoslov (Stone Bridge), Tommy Dunne (Stone Bridge), Kevin Zhu (Freedom), Angel Ceron-Garcia (Tuscarora), Ryan Deutsch (Broad Run), Isaac Owusu (Potomac Falls).

Girls Soccer:
Player of the Year: Whitney Church (Broad Run)
First Team: Emily Frederikson (Stone Bridge), Ellie Zoepfl (Broad Run), Ashley Herndon (Stone Bridge), Murielle Tiernan (Stone Bridge).
Second Team: Sam Scolarici (Freedom), Lina Granados (Briar Woods).
HM: Katherine Murphy (Potomac Falls), Brittany Basinger (Woodgrove), Caitlin Kick (Heritage), Alana Mackey (Loudoun County), Sam Russell (Briar Woods), Mallory Ullrich (Freedom), Kelly Abt (Potomac Falls), Maria Pinkston (Dominion), Marchelle Davis (Briar Woods), Sarah Hardison (Wooddgrove).

Boys Tennis
HM: Noah Fenton (Middleburg), Wesley Wong (Freedom).

Girls Tennis
HM: Sunnie Lampl (Woodgrove).

Golf
Coach of the Year: Gary McKay (Loudoun Valley)
First team: Scott Davidson (Loudoun Valley), Maclain Huge (Middleburg).
HM: Tanner Welsh (Loudoun Valley).

Gymnastics
HM: Tori Severin (Stone Bridge).

Baseball
First Team: Spenser Rositano (Stone Bridge)
Second Team: Taylor Clarke (Broad Run)
HM: AJ Powell (Broad Run), Jackson Rogers (Potomac Falls), Matthew Reed (Woodgrove), Ty Lighton (Stone Bridge).

Softball:
First Team: Macy Jones (Briar Woods), Sydney Broderick (Stone Bridge).
Second Team: Heather Kiefer (Potomac Falls).
HM: Kelley Duerbeck (Loudoun County), Kristina Karagiorgis (Briar Woods), Cori Prince (Stone Bridge), Nicole Prince (Stone Bridge), Samantha Thomas (Park View), Ashley Cole (Woodgrove), Kate Sims (Broad Run).