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Lee Field Hockey Hosts ‘Under the Lights’

After defeating Wakefield, 6-0, in its season opener, Lee hosted the 2012 “Under the Lights” tournament Aug. 24-25.

Meghan Cox scored a pair of goals for the Lee field hockey team during the "Under the Lights" tournament Aug. 24-25.

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Spartans Win 4 of 6

Spartans looking for first district title in nearly four decades.

The West Springfield field hockey team won four of its first six games this season.

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McKay Promises Field Improvements

VOICE tour highlights needs of area youth.

Touring three neglected athletic fields Aug. 15, Lee District Supervisor Jeff McKay and Park Authority board member Edward Batten heard public testimony urging them to take action. Both expressed their intent to make the fields playable and safe.

Whitman Continues Quarterback Transition

McGowan to start against Wootton, Morton could see time.

Whitman opens the 2012 season against Wootton on Aug. 31.

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Mount Vernon Field Hockey Led by Senior Class

Majors have played in three consecutive district championship games.

The Mount Vernon field hockey team went 3-0-1 at the "Under the Lights" tournament Aug. 24-25 at Lee High School.

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Day Leads Herndon Football

Hornets amassed 3-17 record during previous two seasons.

Brian Day, a former assistant at Westfield and Centreville, is in his first season as head coach of the Herndon football team.

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Jarrell Leads Woodson Field Hockey

Cavaliers fell short of regional tournament in 2011.

Meg Jarrell, 22, is in her first season as head coach of the Woodson field hockey team.

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Defense Is Strength of Titans Field Hockey

T.C. Williams field hockey team beats Hayfield in its tournament opener.

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T.C. Williams Football Loaded with Playmakers

Titans to open 2012 season at home against Wakefield.

The T.C. Williams football team is loaded with playmakers entering the 2012 season.

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Molnar Leads Yorktown Volleyball Past South County

Junior tallies 20 kills in five-game, season-opening victory.

Molnar's 20 kills propel Yorktown volleyball past South County in opener.

CVHS XC Names Runners of the Week

The Wildcat Cross Country team began preparation for the upcoming season with a full slate of practices and an early season time trial.

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Journey of Hope

T.C. grad cycles 4,000 miles for disability awareness.

As the strains of Bruce Springsteen's “Born in the USA” blared out over crowd, more than 50 friends, family members and fellow T.C. Williams graduates gathered on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Aug. 5 to watch Alexandria's Louis Barnett cross the finish line in the 25th Annual Journey of Hope bike ride across America.

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Vienna Woman Follows a Slippery Slope

Madison grad training for skeleton in winter Olympics

Since graduating from Elon University, Veronica Day’s life has gone downhill. And well it should be because Day, a Madison High School graduate in 2007 who was track and field three-time All-State, who broke Elon’s track and field records, is at the U.S. Olympic Committee’s training facility at Lake Placid, honing her skill at "skeleton," a relative of luge and bobsled. She’s preparing for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.

Bethesda Country Club To Host Wounded Warrior Tournament

Annual event returns Aug. 20.

In 2005, Jim Estes, director of golf at Olney Golf Park began teaching injured servicemen and women to play golf — many of them amputees, many with prostheses. He took the job so seriously that he practiced raising his right leg and hitting the ball off his left leg for hours as he tried to figure out the best way for one-legged people to hit the ball.

Pies Tackles National Competition

Local golfer qualifies for USGA Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament.

The U.S. Golf Association Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament is the most prestigious golf tournament for amateurs in the United States — and Potomac’s Rusty Pies qualified for the second year in a row. The tournament will be held Aug. 13 - 19 at Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village, Colo.