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WABC WINTER 2014-2015 SPORTS NEWSLETTER

Message from the West Potomac Athletic Boosters

WABC would like to congratulate all the winter sport’s student athletes,

coaches and volunteers who made the season a big success. It was an exciting

season for all of the teams.

The spring sports season has started, so come out and watch our Boys and

Girls Lacrosse, Soccer and Track, Boys Baseball, Girls Softball and catch our Crew

Team on the River.

Thank you in advance for all of our parents working concessions for the

home games.

Rick Genuario

Vicki Aardema

Co-Presidents WABC

WABC - WEST POTOMAC ATHLETIC BOOSTERS

www.WestPotomacSports.org


2014-2015 Winter Sports Special Awards

Spring Sports Scholar Athletes:

This award is given to a male and female senior athlete who earn a varsity letter, earn a 3.5 or better GPA for the 2nd quarter and contribute significantly to their sport and school! Nominations are sub-mitted and voted by the Winter Head Coaches:

Male Scholar Athlete: Chris Cheng, Basketball

Female Scholar Athlete: Maxine Clifford, Swimming

1st Team All Patriot Conference

Boys Swim: Kevin Adams-Marti, Luke Perez, DJ Pinter, Will Rausch, Sam Runner, Michael Valceanu and Jarod Worden

Girls Swim: Cassidy Bayer, Maxine Clifford, Holly Jansen, Jenna Martin and Ali Puskar– Beckett

Boys Winter Track: Tracy Bogyah, Lozie Goolsby, Kenny McKlusky, Cullen O’Boyle and Zach Sadler

Girls Winter Track: Claire Barber, Meredith Barber, Charlotte Constantino, Jessika Dickerson, Maura Fin and Monalisa Paulk

Wrestling: Jeremia Carter, Josh Carter, Marco olon and Jay Holzworth

2nd Team All Patriot Conference

Boys Basketball: Jamie Sara

Honorable Mention All Patriot Conference

Boys Basketball: Chris Cheng

Girls Basketball: Bre Elphage, Tenesha Green and Maddie Zdebski

All Tournament Team—Holiday Tournament

Girls Basketball: Bre Elphage

All Patriot Conference Defensive Team

Boys Basketball: Jamie Sara


2014– 2015 Winter Sports Special Awards

1st Team All 6A North Region

Girls Swim: Cassidy Bayer, Maxine Clifford, Holly Jansen, Jenna Martin and Ali Puskar-Beckett

Boys Swim: Kevin Adams-Mardi, DJ Pinter and Michael Valceanu

Winter Track: Lozie Goolsby

Wrestling: Josh Carter

Honorable Mention All 6A North Region

Wrestling: Jeremiah Carter, Marco Colon & Jay Holzworth

1st Team All Metropolitan

Swim: Cassidy Bayer

2nd Team All Metropolitan

Rifle Team: Grayson Wheeler

Swim: Hollly Jansen

Honorable Mention All Metropolitan

Rifle Team: Jack Apperson, Andy Knight, Dominic Mancini, Connor McPherson and Chris Quin

Swim: Ali Puskar-Beckett

Winter Track: Lozie Goolsby

The Washington Post First Team All Metropolitan

Cassidy Bayer Swim


Spring Sports Team MVPs & Coaches Awards:

Sport MVP Coaches

Boys Basketball Jamie Sara Varsity: Khalil Williams Diggins JV: Luke Lash Freshman: DeAndre Webb

Girls Basketball Ciera Elphage Varsity: Maddie Zdebski JV: Shelby Pierson Taylor Petteway Dance Lisa Cohen Varsity: Jaime Wheaton JV: Zandyveth Sosa Gymnastics Annie Hunger Varsity: Dorothy Bowerfind

Rile Jack Epperson Grayson Wheeler

Swim/Dive Boys Michael Valceanu Luke Perez

Swim/Dive Girls Cassidy Bayer Victoria Bolger

Winter Track Boys Lozie Goolsby Kendall McClusky

Winter Track Girls Maura Finn Meredith Barber

Wrestling Joshua Carter Varsity:Jeremiah Carter JV: William Agyin


2014-2015 Winter Scholar Athlete Award Winners

(Athletes who have a GPA of 3.5+ the 1st quarter)

Varsity Boys Basketball: Christopher Cheng, Samuel Hammond, Rafael Iboleon and Wilson Prater

JV Boys Basketball: Benjamin Hamer, Luke Lash, Jacob Mazzoccoli and Ahmad Rafay

Freshman Boys Basketball: David Bishop, Bailey Iboleon, Cooper May, Jackson Prater, Noah Prinzbach and Justin Shelton

Varsity Girls Basketball: Arielle Boykin, Jessica Dorn, Martha Gallagher, Tenesha Green, Abigail Gwartney, Haleigh Hopper, Kierstin Jenne, Sarah Kanuch, Grace Moery and Natalie Terwilliger

JV Girls Basketball: Emma Auld, Caroline Bowman, Maeve Jarvis, Shelby Pierson, Marjorie Rivas Martinez, Bridgett Surida and Theresa Willmott-McMahon

Varsity Dance Team: Emma Anderson, Caroline Austin, Lisa Cohen, Jessika Dickerson, Catherine Farson, Lena Harmata, Helen Kitrosser, Madison Kurcias, Margret Lingenfelter, Emily Madden, Katherine Martineau, Jordan McCray, Madeline McMullin, Fiona Penn, Elizabeth Petkosek, Victoria Rulapaugh, Bela Starinchak, Anna Ustun, Jensen Wainwright and Jaime Wheaton

JV Dance Team: Elizabeth Cordova, Kristina Gulczewski, Jade Han, Nayibe Nassar Reyes, Grace Perkins, Zandyveth Sosa and Jana Wiarda

Gymnastics: Evangeline Hughes, Anne Hunger, Julianne Joyce and Emma Kelly

Rifle Team: John Apperson, Catherine Fidd, Andrew Knight, William Knight, Dominic Mancini, Connor McPherson, Christopher Quin, Michael Smith, Kurt Sullivan, Brian Trigg and McKenna Wirth

Boys Swim/Dive: Connor Burke, Brian Cash, Lucas Cochran, Sean Franklin, Finn Gilmartin, Connor Hayes, Dominick Heratsch, Colin Keightley, Anthony Lower, Benjamin Marin, Ian Neal, Liam Orr, John Perkins, DJ Pinter, Carl Questad, Christopher Quin, Jeremy Read, Samuel Runner, Robert Scherer, Ian Schurr, Benjamin Slobodin, Ryan Thompson, Samuel Wainwright, Andrew Wolverton and Jarod Worden


2014-2015 Winter Scholar Athlete Award Winners

(Athletes who have a GPA of 3.5+ the 1st quarter)

Girls Swim/Dive: Audrey Alexander, Natalie Babiuch, Cassidy Bayer, Victoria Bolger, Melanie Bom-berg, Anna Capper, Maxine Clifford, Adrianna DeLorenzo, Elizabeth Dexter, Audrey Dittman, Jena El-shami, Parker Fulghum, Chloe Harris, Ashlyn Hendrix, Natalie Hohman, Holly Jansen, Natalie Jurkow-ski, Elizabeth Kern, Jenna Martin, Jayne Orleans, Rachel Perez, Elaina Phalen, Alyssa Pierson, Alexan-dria Puskar, Olivia Scheidt, Kiko Shane, Caroline Stapleton, Hannah Thompson, Emily Walzl, Alexan-dra Weil, Patricia Wheeler, Claire Woods and Kate Woods

Boys Winter Track: Michael Bell, Andrew Campbell, Andrew Dahik, John Day,, Jarrod Denham, Os-man Elhaje, Matthew Frame, Samuel Herrington, Ryan Huck, Samuel James, Bernard Kluskens, Chris-topher Letai, Phillip Lincoln, Zachary Lindsey, Kendall McClusky, Cullen O’Boyle, Jonathan Rimming-ton, Gabriel Servais, Peter Skudlarek, Isaiah Smith, Brennan Vaughan, Benjamin Weisel. Austin Whit-ney, John Whitney and Brennan Willmott-McMahon

Girls Winter Track: Ubaida Ahmed, Margarita Aleixo, Charlotte Anderson, Claire Barber, Meredith Barber, Audrey Boling, Kameron Clarke, Gabrielle Clautice, Charlotte Costantino, Jessika Dickerson, Ann Duke, Gabrielle Farmer, Catherine Fidd, Madelin Finn, Maura Finn, Giulia Friggi, Caroline Gard-ner, Grace Henley, Siena Joy, Cameron Long, Ella Moore, Kaycie O’Boyle, Safiya Osei, Laura Powell, Kristen Privette, Mary Savage, Zoe Smith, Jennifer Thomson & Abbie Weissman

Varsity Wrestling: Ashleigh Holzworth, Adrian Moran-Abundez & Patrice Parker

JV Wrestling: Nicholas Hogan and Austin Prinzbach


BOYS BASKETBALL

The 2014-15 season was a strong learning, competitive season. The Varsity team this season was very young (6 soph-omores, 6 juniors, 2 seniors). The team battled in a very tough Patriot Conference and competed strong enough to defeat the tournament champions, South County, twice during the season. Since the team was so young, a lot of play-ers were able to contribute and learn throughout the year. The team finished 3rd place in the Falls Church Holiday tournament and split their games during the start of the season tip-off tournament. Jamie Sara led the team in points, rebounds & steals. Chris Cheng led the team with 55 3-pointers made (10th in the DC Metro area). Khalil Williams led the team in assists and was 2nd in scoring while starting every game of the season at point guard.

Team Record: 8-15 Team Awards: MVP: Jamie Sara Coaches Award: Khalil Williams Most Improved Player – Chris Cheng Best Rebounder – Jamie Sara Best Defender – Jamie Sara Coaching Staff: Head Coach: David Houston III (Patriot Conference Co-Coach of the year) Assistant Coach: Tyrone Strother, Dr. David Houston Jr,Justin Baker JV: The 2014-15 season was a unique one for the boys basketball program at West Potomac. Six sophomores ended up playing on the varsity team, including Da’Jon Bellfield and Mark Ellis who began the year as members of the JV. While this group of kids should form a strong nucleus for the future, it presented our team with a challenge and forced other members of the sophomore class to step up in the absence of their classmates. Our team was able to be com-petitive in a difficult league and ended up finishing the year with a record of 6-10. Some highlights of our season were our road wins at Mount Vernon, at South County, and at Annandale. A source of pride for us throughout the year was our team defense, which kept us in games and enabled us to hold all of our league opponents to their lowest point total of the year. We were led by our captain and Coach’s Award winner Luke Lash who led our team in minutes played and did a great job taking care of the ball as our point guard. Trevin Armstrong led our team in scoring and had numerous standout performances including a 25 point game in our win at South County. Freshman Jake Mazzoccoli also made significant contributions as a low post scorer and our leading rebounder. Team Record: 3-13 Coaches Award: Luke Lash

Freshman: Despite a rough start to the season, the Boys Freshman Basket Ball team rebounded and gelled together and accomplished many of our goals. Our longest winning streak was three games and that was accomplished in the same week. We beat our long time rival T.C. Williams who was 13-0 at the time. We finished strong, winning two of our last three games and really came together as one team instead of individuals. I’m proud of the group and wish them the best going forward.

Team Record: 6-10 Coaches Award: De Andre Webb

Coaching Staff: Head Coach: Bryan Lawrence Assistant Coach: Robert Byrd


GIRLS BASKETBALL

A very young WP Varsity Girls basketball team played a tough schedule against many top 25 teams

in the area. There were many bright spots throughout the season including going into overtime

with local powerhouse Mount Vernon, beating Lee in overtime at their place, and battling toe to

toe with the dynasty local program West Springfield HS (at WSHS). The girls adjusted to an entirely

new coaching staff and system. As a young team, we hope to improve on our accomplishments

this year and make many more next year! While the season ended sooner than we wanted, I truly

couldn’t have asked for a better group of girls to coach.

JV: The JV Girls basketball team finished 10-6 after a successful finish over Lake Braddock and An-

nandale! The highlight of the season came with several big wins over top teams like South County

early on, and Woodson late in the season. A very young team, the JV girls are looking forward to

yet another successful season in 2015-2016 and have proven to be a dedicated and hard-working

group of young student-athletes.

Freshman: The Girl’s Freshmen Basketball team completed the 2013-14 school year with a 7-9

record. This team could have easily have been 9-7 with two close losses. After being up on West

Springfield by 12 points, the young team succumbed to a late full-court press and lost by 1 point.

In a close game against TC Williams High School, this young team lost a nail biter by three points.

This was a young freshmen team with only five of the twelve players having any organized basket-

ball experience. This lack of experience showed as the team got off to a slow start (starting the

season 1-3). However, as the young players improved so did the performance of the team. I be-

lieve this was a successful season.

Team Record: 7-16 Team Awards:MVP: Bre Elphage Coaches Award: Maddie Zdebski

Coaching Staff:

Lauren Arthur

Eddie Arthur

James Johns

Ed Arthur


GYMNASTICS

The West Potomac team ended the season finishing in 6th place at the Patriot Conference Gymnas-

tics Championships with a score of 112.225.

Highest individual placements were:

Vault – Annie Hunger 12th

Bars – Claudia Berman 15th

Beam – Annie Hunger 15th

Floor – Annie Hunger and Claudia Berman 14th

All-Around - Claudia Berman 13th

MVP award – Annie Hunger

Coaches award – Dorothy Bowerfind

Team members were Annie Hunger (Captain), Claudia Berman, Cat Garber, Eva Hughes, Julianne

Joyce, Emma Kelly (Captain), Olivia Manous and Dorothy Bowerfind (Captain).

Seniors Olivia Manous, Annie Hunger and Dorothy Bowerfind, We wish you the best in all your future

endeavors, we are really going to miss you next year.

Coaches: Pete Novgrod, Christina Jones, Brad Wasserman, Jennifer Slade, Meredith Maple,

Cara Yaworske and Joy Wright


RIFLE

The Rifle Team completed another record setting season this year. The season started with

the addition of eight new freshman team members. This doubled the team size to 15 shooters,

the largest team ever and prepares the team to continue its success into the future. With the

support of additional volunteer coaches, the team increased practice to four nights a week, to

accommodate all of the team members. During the season team members practiced hard to

increase their personal best scores and the team established a new school record with a score

of 1121. The team shot its way to a 6-3 season record with a fourth place finish in the Potomac

High School Air Rifle League Championships. Team member Grayson Wheeler was named to

the PHSRL All-Metro Second Team and team members Jack Apperson, Andy Knight, Dominic

Mancini, Connor McPherson and Chris Quin all received All-Metro Honorable Mention recogni-

tion. This is the largest number of team members to receive All-Metro Honors in a single.

The season in still underway with the team participating in the NRA National Junior Indoor Air

Rifle Championships. The results of these matches will be announced in May. In last year’s

match, the team finished eighth in the Non-Military Scholastic Team Division and our highest

shooter finished in 25th place, in this national match. A team member also received a

$1000.00 scholarship from the Civilian Marksmanship Program and the Ft. Hunt Sportsmen

John C Frey Most Valuable Athlete Honorable Mention Award.


SWIM/DIVE

The swim team had an incredible season. We sent 18 swimmers to states and broke 3 state

records including the girls 200 Individual Medley. Freshman Cassidy Bayer set an individual

record in the 200 IM and 100 fly. Holly Jansen came in 2nd in the 100 breast stroke. Michael

Valceanu came in 7th in the 100 fly. The girl’s team broke 5 records in the region: 100 fly,

200 IM, 100 back, 400 free relay and 100 breaststroke.

Team Record:

Boys 4/4

Girls 4/4

Team Awards:

MVP

Boys: Michael Valceanu

Girls: Cassidy Bayer

Coaches Award:

Boys: Luke Perez

Girls: Tori Bolger

Other awards/honors by your athletes:

Cassidy Bayer 1st team All Conference and voted All Met for 2014-2015

200 tm all American Cassidy Bayer,Holley Jansen,Ali,Puskar-Beckett,Maxine Clifford

Coaching Staff:

Head Coach: Robert Lombardi

Assistant: Sam Burgi

Dive: Bryan Bahr


WINTER TRACK

Who would have thought after all of the snow days and sporadic practices in freezing temper-atures that the Winter Track Team would produce quite a few standout performances? To have produced the outcomes that the Winter track team achieved requires a consistent workout regimen week in and week out. In the earlier going there was a lot of discourage-ment and hopelessness because our athletes were not achieving where they thought they should be. But our athletes dug deep with determination, perseverance and resolve to push through all the adversity that the elements could throw at them. They continued to show up on sub 30 degree days and holidays determined to improve; and they did just that. We had athletes to PR in the specialized events and qualify for regionals and states. Most of the fruits of their labor were displayed in the performances they gave in the conference championship. With this new found success through hard work and a disciplined mind state our track ath-letes hope to carry their winter accolades into the spring season to reach new heights and better successes.

Team Awards:

MVP: Maura Finn and Lozie Golsby Coaches Award: Meredith Barber and Kenny McClusky

Other awards/honors by your athletes:

ALL CONFERENCE:

Jessika Dickerson Monalisa Paulk Zach Sadler Lozie Goolsby Kenny McClusky Glenn Rushing Sam James Tracy Bogyah

Coaching Staff: Dena McCraith Jen Dietz Eric Pilson Jana De Coster Justin Gaudenzi


WRESTLING

The team placed in the top 5 in 4 regular season tournaments (1st at Covenant Life Tourna-ment, 3rd at George Mason Tournament, 3rd at Winter Blitz Tournament and 4th at Stonewall Jackson Tournament). The team also produced Individual District, Regional, and State placers and champions. Marco Colon– sophomore @ 113lbs. weight class, only won 2 or 3 varsity matches last year, 22-12 this year, placed in several tournaments, one of which he won, 3rd in the districts and was a regional qualifier. Jay Holzworth– freshmen @ 220 lbs. weight class, went 28 – 9, also won several tournaments this year, he was voted most outstanding wrestler at the Winter Blitz Tournament, placed 4th in the districts and regionals, state qualifier. Coaches Award : Jeremiah Carter Senior team captain @ 126lb. weight class, went 33 -6, won several tournaments this year, placed 3rd in the districts and regionals, and a 2x state qualifier, career record of over 80 wins. Most Valuable Award: Joshua Carter Senior team captain @ 160lb. weight class, went 38-3, won several tournaments this year, he was voted MVP of the Covenant Life Tournament, he is district and regional champion this year and placed 4th in the state, career record of over 80 wins. Coaching Staff: Head Coach – James Hargrove Assistant Coaches – Marcus Payne and John J.J. Perez


SPRING MULCH SALE!

This year’s sale was a great success due

to community support and the many

volunteers that make this event run

smoothly. All proceeds from the annual

mulch sale benefit the West Potomac

Athletic Programs directly.

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