Girl’s Basketball, Boy’s Basketball Girl’s Basketball by Austin Tucker ’14 After opening the season with two losses, the girl’s basketball team has won three straight games including a 45-33 win over rival, Magruder. Seniors Alia Smith and Katie Ruth have played big roles in the team’s recent success. Smith had 29 points and 9 rebounds in the team’s 64-61 overtime … Read More
by Brett Melnick ’12 As the NBA season is right around the corner, teams are working hard to acquire players they feel will make strong contributions to their organizations. A handful of player transactions occur over the course of a season, and very few are overturned for any reason besides the failing of a fitness test. Recently however, NBA Commissioner, … Read More
by Andrew Wasik ’13 Upon checking Sports Center one day I found myself physically jumping for joy, I found out that it was over. The NBA lockout was over after one hundred and forty nine days. To my pleasant surprise I found that there would be a shortened sixty-six game season beginning on Christmas day. After canceling the entire preseason … Read More
multimedia by Jacob Bogage ’12 Sherwood Warriors 81- Seneca Valley Screamin’ Eagles 62 Led by seniors Charlie Rogers and Scott Bolen, the Sherwood Warriors (1-0) whizzed passed the Seneca Valley Screamin’ Eagles (0-1) en route to a 19-point opening night win. Rogers led all scorers with 32 points and Bolen, nipping at his heels with 31. Jerry McFadden led the way … Read More
Sports Funding Proves to be Hot Button Issue by Jacob Bogage ’12 27 sports, 1 team. That used to be the mantra of University of Maryland (UMD) athletics. But after Athletic Director Kevin Anderson cut two sports in the last two years and University President Wallace Loh pledged to cut eight more on November 21 to counter a $4.7 million … Read More
by Andrew Wasik ’13 The big three, three players that can completely influence a basketball team and control the floor. Miami has three, Boston has three and now, Sherwood has three. Seniors Scott Bolen, Jourdain McCants and Charlie Rogers are the Warriors’ three returning leading scorers from last season but the question this season is how they will match up … Read More
by Steffi Carrera ’14 “I really like diving. It’s very exciting for me. I can zone out when I dive, which is probably one of the reasons I like it the most … When diving, I don’t think about anything outside of what I’m doing at that moment, which is kind of cool.” Sophomore varsity dive captain Summer White started … Read More
by Hope Gouterman ’13 The Sherwood varsity girls volleyball team is officially unbeatable. The team capped off an undefeated 19-0 season by defeating Arundel High School (25-21, 25-19, 25-19) in the 4A State Championship at Ritchie Coliseum on November 19. The team remarkably has claimed consecutive state championships while going undefeated in both seasons. With incredible performances by both starters … Read More
by Brett Melnick ’12 While they may be slight-looking in physical stature and are unassuming in their personalities, juniors Dereje Alemu and Robel Kebede, two ESOL students at Sherwood, are more than meets the eye. They are two of the fastest runners at Sherwood, and have only been living in the United States for three years. Born on opposite sides … Read More
by Joey Lavoie ’14 Is Division I football bound to just become one big conference of 119 schools with the latest NCAA conference realignments? It sure seems so. There are currently 12 conferences with numbers of members ranging from four to 13. The conference with the most teams isn’t even one of the “big six” conferences in the NCAA. No, … Read More