MCPS has announced that September 4, 2024 is opening day for the inaugural girls’ flag football season. All 25 MCPS high schools will field teams and participate in opening day festivities that will be conducted at four locations across Montgomery County. Ceremonies will be conducted with support from the Baltimore Ravens and Washington Commanders. The schedule and locations are below:
The Northeast Conference (NEC) unveiled its women’s soccer weekly accolades where Howard University sophomore forward Mimi Richards (Silver Spring, Md.) took home the league’s Player of the Week award. Richards is a graduate of Einstein High School in Kensington.
The 2024 Olympic Games have come to an end in Paris, and Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has highlighted three former MCPS students who shined in this year’s games. More from MCPS below:
Shane Lee, who is a Montgomery County native from Burtonsville, signed with the Los Angeles Chargers as an undrafted free agent this past spring after three years at Alabama and his senior year at USC. As Lee took a knee after practice on Thursday, Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh brought Lee’s parents out for an emotional reunion before his father Mark Lee spoke to the team (clip below).
The inductees will be honored at the Silver Spring Civic Building on Sunday, May 4th, 2025
Potomac native and Bullis alumna Masai Russell set an Olympic trials record and qualified for the Paris Olympics with a 12.25 in the 100m hurdles. On Saturday, she won 100m hurdles gold by .01 seconds with a 12.33.
Quincy Wilson, a rising junior at the Bullis School in Potomac, became the youngest male U.S. track Olympian when he ran the opening leg of Round 1 of the U.S. 4×400-meter relay Friday. Now, he’s the youngest male Olympic track and field gold medalist ever…and school starts in two and a half weeks.
MCPS will join Baltimore City Public Schools and Washington County Public Schools as school districts that will pilot girls’ flag football during the Fall 2024 season, joining Frederick County Public Schools, which successfully piloted girls’ flag last year. The schedule and information about how the season will work, can be seen below:
Hazel Della, a 2023 graduate of Wootton High School in Rockville, has won gold at the 2024 U.S. National Taekwondo Championship, which took place between July 4, 2024 – July […]
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, Councilmember Gabe Albornoz, Montgomery County Recreation Director Robin Riley and staff welcomed Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes to celebrate the unveiling of a statue in her honor at the Silver Spring Recreation and Aquatic Center (SSRAC) on Tuesday