By Ryan Deal ’16 The 2014-15 softball season is just about ready to get under way for the Warriors. The team, which is returning back key players such as senior pitcher Jaimie Schimer, junior first baseman Kelly Bouma and junior outfielder Hanna Nalls, is looking to capture a fourth-straight softball state championship. The squad will begin their season on March … Read More
By Lauren Cosca ’15 Sherwood’s co-ed volleyball team started the season with victory in their first game against Poolesville, last year’s MCPS champion, on Friday, March 20. Sherwood won three straight sets, 25-13, 25-11 and 25-9. With junior and starting setter Ariella Rodriguez unable to play due to a volleyball tournament, junior Alex Greenbaum showed her ability to excel in … Read More
By Dalton Sanchez ’15 The Warriors prepared to start their season off on March 20th with a game against Blake, but the game was canceled and moved to a later date due to unseasonable snow. The boys will play Blake on March 22nd at Blake, and Watkins Mill on the 23rd at Sherwood. The team has put in a lot … Read More
By Noah Rosendorf ’17 One of the most enjoyable experiences during winter is waking up in the morning and finding out that the county has declared a snow day. However, MCPS only has four built-in snow days per year before extending the school year, and there have been seven such days. MCPS has requested a waiver of three days from … Read More
By Maddie Peloff ’16 Elected in the state of Maryland during the fall 2014 elections, new Republican Governor Larry Hogan has promised a reduction of taxes in his upcoming term. Anticipating major cuts in state and county budgets, school systems, including MCPS, reduced their budgets a significant amount for the following school year. Montgomery County’s interim superintendent Larry A. Bowers … Read More
By Stephen Luckey ’15 Midwest The Midwest region is a powerful one, no doubt. Kentucky being the only undefeated team in the tournament definitely puts them at a high level, and I personally see them going to the Elite Eight. The Wildcats will depend on Andrew and Aaron Harrison to lead them in scoring past the other teams in … Read More
By Ryan Deal ’16 MIDWEST: When looking at this section of the bracket, it is easy to see the favorite. Kentucky, the one seed in this region, has won all 34 of their games this season, raising the question of whether this team can become the first squad since Indiana in 1975 to go undefeated. However, this Kentucky team that … Read More
By Hunter Moore ’15 MIDWEST: It’s hard to rule out Kentucky for this region, really hard. However, I don’t think Kentucky can do it. Kentucky is 34-0, which is impressive to say the least, but since 1975, when Bob Knight’s Indiana Hoosiers went 32-0 to win the championship, no team that has gone undefeated has won it all. I … Read More
Zach is the Business Director for The Warrior. By Zach Stubblefield ‘15 The NBA regular season is a drag. There are simply too many games for regular season wins and losses to actually mean something. The long season leads to many star players getting injured, which lessens the NBA’s appeal overall. An easy solution to this problem would be to … Read More
By Ankur Kayastha ‘15 As the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments replace many state-mandated standardized tests, schools across the nation are struggling to administer the multi-day computer-based test. At Sherwood, the Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) initially planned to go to block scheduling to accommodate seven PARCC tests. Based on staff feedback which voiced concern … Read More