Girls swim and dive is off to a strong start to their season, having won all of their meets as of Oct. 14. Many swimmers and divers are already looking to compete in state championships for their events. To qualify, athletes must meet specific swim time or dive score requirements set by the Washington Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association each season. The times and scores vary by event.

The girls’ flag football team is quickly approaching the end of their eight-game regular season. They took on a tough Whitman team on Oct. 9, where they lost a hard fought battle 8-14. With this loss, they remained at a positive record of 4-2. With a week’s rest, they were ready to take on the Quince Orchard Cougars at home on Oct. 16. The Patriots looked to march into the playoffs with a big win against QO, who held the same 4-2 record. Wootton got an early lead of 6-0, and held it for almost the entirety of the game. Unfortunately for the team, in the last three minutes of the second half, the Cougars marched down the field to take the lead 7-6 and ended up beating the Patriots on their last drive. This loss left them at 4-3 on the season.

Maryland women’s basketball finished last season with its worst postseason result since 2010. Head coach Brenda Frese responded with a massive shakeup, bringing in seven players from the transfer portal, tied for the most in program history. She now faces the difficult task of leading a team in which...

WASHINGTON – A pair of Gallaudet University women's volleyball seniors found themselves serving a different role for the Bison here Tuesday night on Senior Night. Seniors Cassidy Perry (Frederick, Md.) and Anya Pothorski (Columbus, Ohio), two forces upfront for the Bison at the net, spent most of the game behind the service line against an overmatched University of Valley Forge squad in a United East Conference match.

Since its founding in 1964, WCHS has always been recognized as a strong athletic school. Today, it is classified by the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA) as part of the second region of the West Division for 4A schools, which are among the top 25 schools with the largest populations in the association. The main competitors for WCHS in each sports season include division rivals Bethesda Chevy-Chase, Gaithersburg, Quince Orchard, Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson, but with the changes made in the 2024-2025 school year, WCHS sports will never be the same.

Ed. Note: If this was you and you are interested, please email [email protected] so I can put you in touch with OP. We played pickleball against each other at Thursday’s Admo Volo league (10/24). We talked about Stephen Colbert and NYC. I wish I asked you to get a drink after the game.”

Girls varsity volleyball finishes their season with a 12-3 overall record, capping the season off on a 3-0 win vs. Northwest in their last regular season game before playoffs begin. The junior varsity also finished with an 11-2 record ending their season with a 2-0 victory vs. Poolesville. The varsity...

The heat of the moment on the court. The intense back and forth with the ball between the two teams. Libero players diving and scraping their knees to save the ball from hitting the ground, leaving the setter to spike it on the other team’s court. For WCHS senior and Girls Varsity Volleyball player Kareena Rathnam, a game is not just about winning, but also about the emotional connection. The sport runs deep in Rathnam’s family and was a foundational part of her upbringing.

In the past several years, the leading charge of school spirit has come through social media. Whether it has been posts, stories or boomerangs, social media is where news of spirit days, homecoming dances and sports schedules are shared with students. Several student and school run accounts contribute to this but the most influential is by far the K-9 account.

The Gaithersburg Trojans will venture away from home to challenge the Richard Montgomery Rockets at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Gaithersburg will be strutting in after a win while Richard Montgomery will be coming in after a loss. Having struggled with four defeats in a row, Gaithersburg finally turned things around...

WASHINGTON/7NEWS — Ed Cooley came to the hilltop intending to rebuild Georgetown's men’s basketball program. But with a 9-23 record, coupled with an 11-game losing streak, that dream was hit by some reality. “Being now in my 31st year coaching, I had to learn to be patient. It’s...

Washington's men's and women's rowing teams are back in action this Sunday, Nov. 3, for the annual Head of the Lake Regatta, which gets underway at 8:00 a.m. PT. The annual event, co-hosted by the UW and Lake Washington Rowing Club, features a three-mile course, which starts in Lake Union, northeast of Gasworks Park, crosses Portage Bay, runs through the Montlake Cut and finishes in Union Bay of Lake Washington, just east of Conibear Shellhouse. See the link to the map for more. Washington crews will race in a number of events over the course of the day, which will...

No. 6 Maryland field hockey celebrated senior day in style with a dominant 3-0 victory over Richmond at home. The Terps improved to 11-5 with the win, while Richmond fell to 10-7 overall. “I think on Friday, we didn’t play Maryland field hockey, and so today was just going to...

Maryland wrestling’s 2023-24 season ended with another year of forward progress under head coach Alex Clemsen. The Terps sent five student-athletes to the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year after not doing so since 2014. Maryland finished with 8.5 team points in the tournament, the most since 2019. In front of a home crowd in the XFINITY Center, the Terps also set program records in points (39), finish (10th) and placer (four) at the 2024 Big Ten Championships.

Virginia Union University's Jada Byers had a record-setting day as VUU defeated Bowie State 56-28 on Saturday, October 26, in Bowie, Md. First, Byers became the Panthers' all-time leading rusher by rushing for 324 yards, giving him a career total of 5,311 rushing yards. This broke the previous record of 5,008 set by Andre Braxton from 1997-2000.

On Friday, Coolidge faced Jackson-Reed in a battle between two of the state's top teams. The Coolidge Colts walked away with a 22-13 victory over the Jackson-Reed Tigers. For the Colts, this counts as revenge for the 14-6 win the Tigers walked away with the last time they faced one another back in October of 2015.

Brad Thomas and Vaughn Dalzell give their favorite bets for the night games in Week 10 of the college football season, featuring USC vs. Washington and Pitt vs. SMU.

COLLEGE PARK, MD – Redshirt junior Saylor Poffenbarger of the 18th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team was named to the Cheryl Miller Award Watch List Wednesday – an honor given to the nation's top small forward. Poffenbarger is one of 20 top players in the country named to the list.

On today's Locked On Golden Gophers, host Kane Rob is breaking down the Minnesota Gophers victory vs the Maryland Terrapins.

Whether or not Washington Husky fans are happy about it, their favorite college football team happens to be in a rebuild project. And that stinks. It truly does. It’s not fun for really anyone. Jedd Fisch probably isn’t having any real fun as the Huskies lose against good teams like the Indiana Hoosiers. Coaches are competitive people and they don’t enjoy suffering defeat.