Basheer Hadi turned in the top performance from an Arlington school at the state wrestling tournament, when the Yorktown High School senior placed second at the 285 heavyweight division.
Hadi lost by a 7-2 score in the title match at the Virginia High School League Class 6 state competition in Virginia Beach.
The winter sports season is now complete for all four high schools in Arlington. Now it’s on to the busy multi-sport outdoor spring season.
The regular season is just getting started, with only a few events in the coming week, but many scrimmage contests are being played. The full regular-season schedules begin the week of March 17.
With district and region girls indoor track-and-field championships already won this winter, the Washington-Liberty Generals now go after the biggest prize in the sport.
On Monday and Tuesday, March 3 and 4, in Virginia Beach, the Generals will attempt to win the Virginia High School League Class 6 state championship.
The Bishop O’Connell Knights had short-lived, one-game stays in the girls and boys Washington Catholic Athletic Conference basketball tournaments, each finishing 0-1.
The fourth-seeded boys high-school team (22-9) lost to the visiting and No. 5 seed St. John’s, 65-57, in a first-round game. The sixth-seed O’Connell girls (17-15) fell on the road, 80-41, to the No. 3 seed Bishop Ireton Cardinals.
For years, Arlington has been somewhat unique in having high-school varsity athletes successfully participate in two sports during the same season.
One year, during the winter campaign, Yorktown High’s Ari Molina won a Liberty District wrestling championship in Arlington in the early evening.
It has been postponed a couple of times due to weather. But yes, the Virginia High School League Class 6 state-championship swimming-and-diving meet is still scheduled.
And one Arlington team is preparing to defend its state crown.
A number of players from Arlington were selections to all-6D North Region girls and boys basketball teams for their performances during the 2024-25 high-school season.
Boys players chosen to the first team from Yorktown High School were junior guard Jake Coulam and senior guard/forward Brennan Pilot. Yorktown senior forward Jack Rubin made the second team.
High-school crew teams from Arlington began practice in recent days for the upcoming spring season, which starts in April with area regattas.
As shown in the photo with this coverage, a couple of Wakefield High School girls eight shells practice in the early morning on the Anacostia River. The Wakefield boys and girls teams alternate morning practices on the Anacostia.
The Northern Virginia Scholastic Hockey League season ended for the Yorktown High School club team with a playoff loss to Independence.
Yorktown (7-4) lost by a 7-1 score, being outshot 42-18.
It was as if there was no learning curve when Cameron Millsapps took up the sport of high-school wrestling two years ago.
The Wakefield High School grappler was pretty much a natural at the sport the first time she took the mat last season as a junior. She lost just four matches last winter and placed sixth in the state at the 152-pound weight class, in what was a new girls high-school sport for Virginia public schools.
The Arlington Soccer Association will host its 55th anniversary gala on Saturday, April 5 at 7 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Little Falls Road.
One purpose for the event, for adults only, will be a fund-raiser, with all the proceeds benefiting the Kenmore Middle School field-turf conversion project.
In the Virginia private-school state tournament held at the Potomac School in McLean, Bishop O’Connell Knights’ freshman Peyton Friedman finished second at 106 pounds.
Friedman had a 3-1 record with a pin and a technical fall in the high-school meet. He was pinned in the final.
