Dave Facinoli

5 days ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Dave Facinoli

Share Led by speedy sprinters, winning relays and other top performers, the Bishop O’Connell Knights girls and boys teams had winning and runner-up performances at the annual Draper Invitational outdoor track-and-field meet. The 30-team high-school event was held May 2-3 at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School in Alexandria. The O’Connell girls won the title for the third straight year, while the boys were a close second.

5 days ago | arlnow.com | Dave Facinoli

The girls softball program at Yorktown High School turned 50 years old this spring, and there was a pregame event May 2 to celebrate the anniversary. Some 30 alumni from past teams were on the field introduced prior to Yorktown’s Liberty District home game against the Marshall Statesmen. Fittingly, Yorktown defeated Marshall big, 17-7. Joanna Schneider and Diane Lacklen McCurdy were members of that first team in 1975. They were present, with Schneider throwing out the first pitch — a low strike.

5 days ago | arlnow.com | Dave Facinoli

There was a game-within-a-game when the Washington-Liberty Generals and Wakefield Warriors met recently in a girls varsity high-school lacrosse match. In that all-Arlington clash, twin freshman sisters Addison and Emily Schimmel played for opposite teams. Addison was a member of the W-L squad and Emily was in uniform for host Wakefield. The two faced off in a match for the first time since they started playing the sport in kindergarten. Washington-Liberty won the match in a blowout, 20-5.

5 days ago | arlnow.com | Dave Facinoli

Led by speedy sprinters, winning relays and other top performers, the Bishop O’Connell Knights girls and boys teams had winning and runner-up performances at the annual Draper Invitational outdoor track-and-field meet. The 30-team high-school event was held May 2-3 at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School in Alexandria. The O’Connell girls won the title for the third straight year, while the boys were a close second.

5 days ago | arlnow.com | Dave Facinoli

The website Novahoops.com recently named a number of high-school basketball players from Arlington to its girls and boys all-Northern Virginia freshman and sophomore teams for the 2024-25 season. On the girls sophomore team was Arlington’s Sabrina Anderson, a guard for the Potomac School private squad, who already has scored 1,000 career points. Bishop O’Connell’s Mia Morrill was chosen a reserve on the sophomore team.