This week’s high-school sports schedule is all about the winter playoffs remaining for some teams in Arlington.
Some gymnasts, wrestlers and swimmers/divers will be competing in Virginia High School League Class 6 state championship meets the next few days. The state track-and-field meet also is upcoming.
After losing two of its last three matches, the Yorktown High School ice-hockey club team routed Oakton, 11-3, in its final regular-season action.
Oakton put a scare into Yorktown early at Reston SkateQuest, scoring just 15 seconds into the match to take a 1-0 lead.
Bruce Hanson at first was nervous about being the center of attention during a recent ceremony recognizing his 40 years as Yorktown High School’s head football coach.
But by the end of the Saturday (Feb. 8) event at the Knights of Columbus in Arlington, just around the corner from Yorktown, Hanson’s emotions had changed. He was happy about all the memories that flowed.
A total of 32 student/athletes from Yorktown High School recently participated in a college commitment and signing ceremony to play their particular sports at the next level.
Members of the Class of 2025 made their choices known in 14 different sports. Additional Yorktown athletes will announce their choices in coming weeks.
There was at least one individual champion from three of the Arlington high-school teams at district and conference wrestling tournaments.
The Yorktown Patriots had the most winners, with two. The Wakefield Warriors and Washington-Liberty Generals had one each, with the highest finish from a Bishop O’Connell Knights grappler being second.
Anya Clemmer of the Yorktown Patriots and Madeleine Wearing of the Wakefield Warriors were the standouts from Arlington teams at the girls 6D North Region gymnastics championships.
Clemmer finished third in the all-around competition with a 36.825 score and Wearing was right behind in fourth (36.425).
With road victories over two Arlington rivals this past week, the Yorktown Patriots finished the regular-season boys basketball campaign with a 19-3 overall record.
Yorktown finished first with an 11-1 record in the Liberty District and will be the top seed in the upcoming postseason tournament, a first since the Patriots joined that high-school league in the 2015-16 season.
With the exception of a number of private-school basketball games, the winter regular-season sports schedule has been completed for Arlington varsity teams.
But the post-season competition is about to hit its stride.
With a 3-0 record, the Washington-Liberty Generals won this season’s Arlington County wrestling meet between the jurisdiction’s four high-school teams.
The Generals defeated the Bishop O’Connell Knights, Yorktown Patriots and host Wakefield Warriors.
Earning big points by nearly sweeping the high jump helped the Wakefield Warriors win a third straight Liberty District boys track-and-field championship.
Wakefield won the high-school meet with 135 points. That total included 25 points in the high jump, with the Warriors finishing first, second, third, fifth, seventh and eighth in the event.
Wrestlers from three Arlington County high schools recently earned berths at the Zone 4 qualifying event to participate in the Virginia High School League girls state tournament.
The top five wrestlers in each weight class earned those berths at Hayfield Secondary School, with the fifth-place finishers designated as alternates.
With their best performance of the season, the Washington-Liberty Generals extended their girls gymnastics campaign with a satisfying and somewhat surprising runner-up finish at the Liberty District championships.
The high-school team, which hosted the meet, had a 131.825 point total, well behind the defending champion McLean Highlanders with 139.825. Washington-Liberty also finished second to McLean last season.
