Senior athlete creates remembrance for Xavia
Grace Kim, Online Chief
April 4, 2012
In memory of Xavia Pirozzi, the sophomore who passed away from leukemia on March 21, senior Carlee Ries has ordered purple wrist sweatbands with the letter X on the front. Purple was Xavia’s favorite color. According to Ries, her aim for this project was to honor Xavia by having all spring sports... Read more »
Senior wins esteemed Scholar Athlete Award
Miranda Ripken, Sports Editor
March 23, 2012
Senior Jon Galarraga was pleasantly surprised when he found out he was selected to being in the running receive a $4,000 scholarship administered by The Greater Baltimore Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. This excitement was quickly replaced by anxiety, as he was... Read more »
Halftime with Ranni: Spring Preview
Miranda Ripken, Sports Editor
March 16, 2012
After an extremely successful season for winter sports, just a few weeks was all the time some multi-sport athletes had until their spring seasons began. Although spring is not necessarily in the air yet, spring sports tryouts have begun, and after all the excitement of the winter season, spring teams... Read more »
Patriot of the Month: Luke Steibe
Kailey Tracey, Copy Editor
March 16, 2012
Senior Luke Steibe’s eyes darted following the ball back and forth down the field. The scoreboard changed with every step he took. It was the 2010 men’s varsity lacrosse MIAA ‘B’ Conference championship match, foreign territory to Steibe. A sophomore defenseman at the time starting alongside... Read more »
Patriot of the Month: Rebecca Driver
Miranda Ripken, Sports Editor
March 16, 2012
Participating in indoor and outdoor track and field since freshman year, junior Rebecca Driver has broken season records and repeatedly set new personal bests. During the indoor track season this year, Driver was the highest point collector on the women’s team, and the second highest out of both the... Read more »
Golf tees off onto new greens
Cara Reilly, Copy Editor
March 15, 2012
Playing golf takes commitment, unless you’re Tiger Woods. This commitment can be found in the varsity golf team as they work hard despite their record of defeat from 2011’s season. Last year was a difficult one for the golf team as they were placed in the challenging MIAA ‘A’ conference and won... Read more »
Rugby team shuts down as badminton team boots up
Miranda Ripken, Sports Editor
March 14, 2012
Freshman Jake Kahoe came to JC expecting to play on the rugby team this spring, but his excitement was quickly quashed with the disbanding of the team. Rugby at JC was started in 2002 by previous Principal Paul Barker. The lack of student-athletes showing up for tryouts was ultimately the team’s demise... Read more »
Beloved softball coach retires
Imani Love and Cara Reilly, Sports Editor and Copy Editor
March 14, 2012
Dick Lippert has been coaching women’s JV softball longer than the girls on his team have been alive. However, after 16 years, Lippert has hung his softball cap up to spend more time with his family and will be replaced by religion teacher Rachel Harkins. Lippert and his wife took a minute to count... Read more »
Equestrian team places eighth, fails to proceed to Nationals
Megan Foard, Multimedia Editor
March 12, 2012
The 2011-2012 equestrian season has officially ended after the team placed eighth out of a total of 32 teams in Zone 3, which includes teams ranging from Pennsylvania to South Carolina. Zones were held on Saturday, Feb. 25 and Sunday, Feb. 26 at Garrison Forest School. Zone 3 grew to a large amount of... Read more »
Men’s, women’s basketball teams honored at Maryland General Assembly
Imani Love, Sports Editor
March 8, 2012
Once again, the men’s and women’s varsity basketball teams will be in the spotlight. Both teams will be honored before the State House of Delegates and the State Senate on March 12 for winning the conference championships this past month. It was the second consecutive championship for the men and... Read more »
