This article was written by Daniela Perez, a junior at Northwest High School in Germantown.
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The Magruder Girls Varsity volleyball team won the 3A state championship with a 25-0 record. The team consistently played at an extremely high level, winning 69 sets and losing only 5. Along the way the team set several school records for volleyball including: most wins, highest win percentage for sets won/lost, kills in a season, attack percentage and passing percentage.
MoCo’s Whitman boys soccer defeated Leonardtown 3-1 last night to win the Maryland State championship for the second year in a row.
Whitman boys soccer has now won 11 state championships in program history and 7 under Coach Dave Greene.
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Bradley started the program in 2015 at Watkins Mill and in just three years, it has been used by over 500 teams 10,000 + athletes throughout the country.
Lead ‘Em Up has been featured at some of the top camps and clinics nationally, including, Nike, Spalding, Glazier, PGC Basketball and the Committed Combine.
Go to MoCo Spotlight: Program Created By MoCo Native Has Taken High School Sports By Storm
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The District 2 Tournament began June 30th with 8 teams for the 12U Little League All-stars:
This is the first tournament in the road to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA which is every young baseball players dream.
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The 6’1, 220 pound O’Daniel was a linebacker at Clemson, where he played four seasons after redshirting in 2013. He is projected to be an inside-the-box-safety or linebacker/safety hybrid in the NFL. He won a national championship with Clemson in 2016.
He attended high school and played football at Good Counsel in Olney, where he was a running back and linebacker. As a senior he was named the Montgomery Sentinal’s Offensive Player of the Year and the Gazette’s Montgomery County Player of the Year. That year he also made the Washington Post’s All-Met First Team.
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Watkins Mill head coach, Mike Brown, would like to take this year’s tournament to the next level by adding teams from Northern Virginia, Prince George’s County, and Baltimore.
The cost is $250 for one team or $200 per team if more than one team signs up from one school (A and B team).
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Blair led 30-24 at the half in a back and forth game, but found themselves trailing by 3 with 12.5 seconds left In the game.
Trailing 53-56, the Blazers missed a three with 6 seconds left, got an offensive rebound, and drained one from long range with .8 seconds left. They went on to win in OT, 66-62.
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”Was great getting the girls pumped for the playoffs” tweeted Delle Donne.
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2011 graduate, Mack Hollins, won a Super Bowl ring with the Philadelphia Eagles in his rookie season after being drafted in the 4th round.
2012 graduate, Haley Skarupa, helped the U.S. women’s hockey team win their first gold medal since 1998.