With its latest victory, the Bishop O’Connell Knights are assured of not having a losing regular-season record in football for the first time since going 5-5 in the 2021 high-school campaign.
The win was a 23-0 shutout over the visiting St. John’s Catholic Prep Vikings in non-conference action Oct. 24 in Arlington. The triumph gave O’Connell a 5-3 overall mark with two games remaining. The worst the Knights can finish is 5-5, like five seasons ago.
The Wakefield Warriors girls and boys cross-country teams had solid finishes in the recent Arlington County varsity high-school meets.
The girls placed second in the annual event at Bluemont Park and the boys were third. The top five individual finishers for the girls were underclassmen.
Led by runners from all four grade levels — some experienced, others not as much — the Washington-Liberty Generals had a strong showing at the annual Arlington County high-school cross-country championship meet.
The varsity event was held on the sunny afternoon of Oct. 7 on the 5,000-meter Bluemont Park course.
The Yorktown Patriots’ current two-game gridiron winning streak continues a trend. It comes against opponents the high-school football team has regularly defeated since the 2020 season.
The squad’s most recent victory came at home by a 3-0 score against the Marshall Statesmen on Friday, Oct. 2 in Liberty District action.
With a strong 3-1 start, including two shutouts, the Bishop O’Connell Knights are seeing their best start in a dozen years.
The Arlington private high-school football team won its third-straight game by blanking the visiting and previously undefeated Northern Virginia Home School Centurions, 48-0, Sept. 26 in non-conference action.
For the fourth straight year, the Washington-Liberty Generals have started the football season with a 3-0 record.
The high-school team’s most recent victory was a 41-27 non-district road win the night of Sept. 10 against the Edison Eagles. It made the football squad one of several W-L teams to start the season strong.
The success of Yorktown High School’s co-ed golf team has been a highlight of the school’s athletic program at the start of the fall sports season.
The Patriots have already won two tournament championships, the latest being the annual three-team Arlington County match. Prior to that, Yorktown won a multi-team tourney hosted by Madison High School.
An Arlington eighth grader brought the fight for boys volleyball to last week’s School Board meeting.
Sam Luchessi, a student at Kenmore Middle School, pressed Board members to include funding in their fiscal year 2027 budget so the sport could be added at the high-school level. The Arlington school system already funds girls volleyball, with competition in the fall.
Constrained finances make it less likely Arlington Public Schools will add new high-school sports in the coming school year.
Left unfunded under Superintendent Francisco Durán’s $856 million proposed fiscal year 2027 school budget are staff proposals to add boys volleyball and girls flag football to athletic programming.
The 2025 season was again a success, as usual, for the Bishop O’Connell Knights. But the girls high-school volleyball team fell short in its quest for postseason tournament championships.
O’Connell finished with a 22-3 overall record and advanced as far as the semifinals in both the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference and Division I state private-school tournaments.
Today (Friday) is the last day to submit feedback on planned upgrades to the volleyball court, playground and paths at Doctor’s Run Park.
The county is planning to resurface the existing volleyball court in the park, located at 1301 S. George Mason Drive in the Douglas Park neighborhood.
Two girls fall teams at Yorktown High School enjoyed success in recent Liberty District tournaments, with each recording upsets along the way.
The second-seeded Patriots’ field hockey squad won the district title for a fifth straight time, with the third-seed volleyball unit finishing second in its tournament.
