It took 68 years, but the Washington-Liberty Generals have again started a season 6-0.
By rallying on the road to defeat the Herndon Hornets, 28-18,on Oct. 4 in Liberty District high-school football action, the Generals improved to 6-0 for the first time since 1956 when the team (then named Washington-Lee) finished the regular season undefeated at 10-0.
There was, maybe, a tight smile or two as the Washington-Liberty Generals reluctantly gathered for a team photo.
But there also was a hunger for more.
There are numerous reasons the Washington-Liberty Generals are off to a strong 5-0 start in high-school football this season.
Perhaps at the top of the list is the consistent and highly-accurate passing performance of starting senior quarterback Matthew Abramson.
The best public schools in Virginia are in Arlington and Falls Church, according to new 2025 rankings.
Arlington Public Schools rank No. 2, right behind Falls Church City Public Schools at No. 1, the education research firm Niche found. Only one other school district in the state received an overall A+ rating.
There were two reasons to celebrate for the Washington-Liberty Generals at the conclusion of the recent Liberty District golf tournament.
The Generals won the high-school competition for the first time, compiling a two-day, 36-hole team score of 304-294–598, winning by nine strokes over the nine-time defending champion Langley Saxons (307-300–607) on the Herndon Centennial Golf Course.
The Washington-Liberty Generals improved to 5-0 with a 49-14 road win over the Falls Church Jaguars in a Sept. 27 non-district high-school football game.
The defending Liberty District champion Generals also started the season 5-0 last fall. The Generals have scored 40 points or more in each victory.
A teacher at Washington-Liberty High School received a threat the same day articles came out accusing a faculty member there of “drilling students on anti-Israel talking points.”
The Tuesday afternoon dispatch to the school did not say which teacher received the “strong” threats via email, prompting a police response. But it happened as articles were published on the conservative news site The Daily Wire and the New York Post about W-L English teacher Shayma Al-Hanooti.
Three Arlington scouts just wrapped up a series of heavy-duty trail restoration projects at Potomac Overlook Regional Park.
Sam Cruley, Michael Corso and Nicholas Fletcher — Eagle Scout candidates and long-time members of Arlington-based Boy Scout Troop 111 — spearheaded the efforts to combat erosion and upgrade some of the park’s popular walking trails.
Sports facilities at Washington-Liberty High School were vandalized ahead of a big football game over the weekend.
The vandalism happened overnight Friday into Saturday, before W-L was set to face cross-county rival Yorktown. A tipster tells ARLnow that the school’s track was damaged.
An Arlington man and his girlfriend were killed in a shooting in Loudoun County yesterday.
Diego Alexander Woollett, 22, was one of two people shot and killed in the area of Huntington Square in Sterling early Thursday morning, police said.
A driver has been cited after striking a teen cyclist in a crosswalk near a high school this morning.
The crash happened just after 8 a.m. at the intersection of 13th Street N. and N. Quincy Street, adjacent to Washington-Liberty High School. An officer working in the area saw the crash and immediately radioed for medics to respond.
Three Arlington high school students presented research at one of the world’s largest data visualization conventions this month.
Rising Washington-Liberty High School seniors Karin Anderson and Annie Trucano, along with recent graduate Kaitlyn Fado, traveled to San Diego to present at a conference attended by about 17,000 industry professionals. Their presentations at the 2024 Esri User Conference showcased the effects of climate change, invasive insect species and urban planning challenges in the DC area.
