At significant cross-country races on the Burke Lake Park course this fall, Emmett Engelhardt has won two, with another still to come.
His latest victory on that 2.98-mile trail was on a warm Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 30) at the boys Liberty District high-school championship meet.
Arlington high schools have a full week of sports ahead, including many playoff events.
There will be no football games Friday night (Nov. 1) involving Arlington teams, because of the observance of a no-play date for Fairfax County schools owing to the Diwali Hindu festival.
In recent competition, boats from the One Arlington Rowing club reached the medal stand at the Head of the Charles Regatta, held on the Charles River in Boston.
Rowers from One Arlington, consisting of students from Arlington’s three public high schools, showcased their skill and determination at the regatta.
Arlington high schools have a full week of sports ahead, including many playoff events.
There will be just one high-school football game Friday night (Oct. 25) involving an Arlington team, because the Wakefield Warriors and Yorktown Patriots have byes this week.
Talk about a full and complete season.
When Malia Perry participates in next week’s Virginia High School League Girls State Open golf tournament, the Washington-Liberty Generals’ senior will have played in every postseason tournament possible this fall — five in total.
The pickleball craze has reached Wakefield High School.
With 18 members and growing, pickleball has become the latest new club at the Arlington school. Spearheaded by senior and varsity tennis player Keyla Park Hernández and her father, Paul Joseph Park, who serves as the coach, the club meets Monday and Wednesday afternoons.
Female competitors will take the spotlight for the remainder of the Virginia High School League’s 2024 golf season.
Thirteen players from Arlington schools are among 70 throughout Northern Virginia that will participate in a state-tournament qualifying event at Twin Lakes Golf Course in Clifton. Then, on Monday, Oct. 28, those who earned berths will play in the VHSL’s Girls State Open, for all enrollment classifications combined, at Heritage Oaks Golf Course in Harrisonburg.
The Wakefield Warriors fell to 2-6 overall with a 40-15 road loss to the Marshall Statesmen on Oct. 18.
The third straight setback kept Wakefield winless in the Liberty District high-school football standings with a 0-4 record.
The high-school football season continues this week for three of Arlington’s four teams, with the other idle.
The undefeated and Liberty District-leading Washington-Liberty Generals (7-0, 3-0) are off with a bye this week. Their season resumes, Friday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. with a home game against their district rival McLean Highlanders (3-3, 0-2).
Arlington high schools have a full week of sports ahead.
Three high-school football games will be Friday night (Oct. 18) involving Arlington teams.
The Wakefield Warriors certainly gained enough yards, but that production wasn’t enough to win.
The host Warriors amassed 466 total yards the night of Oct. 10 high-school football action, but lost to the Langley Saxons, 42-30, in Liberty District action.
Two tall refurbished trophies, named for individuals for the first time, were presented to the winning girls and boys high-school teams at this year’s annual Arlington County cross-country championship meets the afternoon of Sept. 24 at Bluemont Park.
The girls trophy is now named for former Washington-Liberty High School director of student activities Carol Callaway. The boys is named for former longtime Yorktown High School cross country coach Mark Stripe, who coached Yorktown for more than 25 years.
