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Byline: Dan Roth RICHMOND -- After the final serve left Loudoun County junior Kira Merl's hand, deflecting off a Grafton player and falling to the floor, the Raiders ran to [...]

Byline: Dan Roth As Montgomery County's lengthy, prerecorded announcement before Wednesday's game between Seneca Valley and Gaithersburg played on the loudspeaker, the Trojans' Jao Ituka alternated tugging at the jersey [...]

Byline: Dan Roth With the 1,600-meter meet record already in hand, Walter Johnson senior Abbey Green pushed ahead of the 3,200 field as soon as the starting gun fired at [...]

Byline: Dan Roth With a new 1,600 meter meet record already in hand, Walter Johnson senior Abbey Green pushed ahead of the 3,200 field as soon as the starting gun [...]

Byline: Dan Roth After showing promise by taking down several ranked opponents early in the season, Douglass showed a tendency to take a step back with a loss soon afterward. [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Controversy ensued after runners burst from their blocks before the starting gun fired in the 55-meter dash Wednesday at the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association championships. McKinley Tech's [...]

Byline: Dan Roth By the time Masai Russell grasped the baton on Bullis's final exchange in the 4Ã200 relay invitational Saturday at the VA Showcase, the Bulldogs already held a [...]

Byline: Dan Roth As the only member of Oxon Hill's record-breaking 4x800-meter team that didn't graduate last spring, Randy Serville stepped into an expanded role this season -- one that [...]

Byline: Washington Post Staff In this week's notebook, we cover Episcopal, Colgan, Thurgood Marshall and Seneca Valley. Episcopal is 'hungry' ahead of three games against Top 20 teams: With Episcopal [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Frustration started seeping into the Rock Creek Christian sideline when Coach Christian Cole called a timeout with just over four minutes remaining in Tuesday's game against Douglass. [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Loudoun Valley held a commanding team lead two miles into Saturday's Nike Cross Nationals boys' championship. After shouldering high expectations all season long, the Vikings weren't about [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Loudoun Valley held a commanding team lead two miles into Saturday's Nike Cross Nationals boys' championship. After shouldering high expectations all season long, the Vikings weren't about [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Before the Loudoun Valley boys' postseason run and its historic sweep of the top five places at the state meet, senior Peter Morris reflected on how he [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Before the Loudoun Valley boys' postseason run and its historic sweep of the top five places at the state meet, senior Peter Morris reflected on how he [...]

Byline: Dan Roth RICHMOND -- After the final serve left Loudoun County junior Kira Merl's hand, deflecting off a Grafton player and falling to the floor, the Raiders ran to [...]

Byline: Dan Roth RICHMOND -- After winning the first two sets of Saturday's Virginia Class 5 volleyball championship match, Tuscarora could have given up on the third to save energy [...]

Byline: Dan Roth PARKTON, Md. -- Walter Johnson's Abbey Green betrayed her usually stoic demeanor and raised her arms in celebration after crossing the finish line in 18 minutes and [...]

Byline: Dan Roth PARKTON, Md. -- Walter Johnson's Abbey Green betrayed her usually stoic demeanor and raised her arms in celebration when, with no competitors in sight, she crossed the [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Cady Hyde made a statement at the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference cross country championship last year when she seized the individual crown from the defending champion as [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Cady Hyde made a statement at the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference cross-country championship last year when she seized the individual crown from the defending champion as a [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Poolesville junior Nandini Satsangi rounded the final turn of the winding 5K course at the DCXC Invite on Saturday with no competitors in sight, staggering as she [...]

Byline: Dan Roth The first time No. 5 Gonzaga played on its home turf this season, its offense showed its youth in a Week 2 loss to Viera (Fla.). Two [...]

Byline: Dan Roth As a seesawing game reached its critical moments on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Oxon Hill, Chopticon quarterback Dominic Crampton sat in the pocket, watching out of [...]

Byline: Dan Roth As a seesawing game reached its critical moments on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Oxon Hill, Chopticon quarterback Dominic Crampton sat in the pocket, watching out of [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Last week, Gonzaga football traveled to Baltimore to take on one of the top teams that city has to offer, and came home with a 38-0 victory [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Last week, Gonzaga football traveled to Baltimore to take on one of the top teams that city has to offer, and came home with a 38-0 victory [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Friendship Collegiate wide receiver Dontay Demus Jr. made three deep, vertical incisions through the Wilson defense Saturday afternoon, so quickly and severely that the Tigers never recovered. [...]

Byline: Dan Roth He appeared out of nowhere, breezing past an unsuspecting, prematurely celebrating fan Friday between innings as the Atlanta Braves hosted the New York Mets at SunTrust Park. [...]

Byline: Dan Roth As the Virginia 6A state softball championship wore on in a 1-1 tie, and No. 2 Madison's defense made showstopping play after showstopping play to snuff out [...]

Byline: Dan Roth NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Ever since passing up Division I football offers to focus on track, Potomac junior Donovan Louis has continued to improve, defying any so-called [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Briar Woods had plenty to gain and a season to lose entering Wednesday's Virginia 5A North region semifinal against Potomac. The game on its home field in [...]

Byline: Dan Roth BALTIMORE -- Patuxent's Hayley Jackson didn't take any time to celebrate her second Maryland outdoor state championship Saturday at Morgan State. After crossing the finish line in [...]

Byline: Dan Roth BALTIMORE -- Patuxent's Hayley Jackson didn't take any time to celebrate her second Maryland outdoor state championship Saturday at Morgan State. After crossing the finish line in [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Patriot senior Rachel McArthur was discouraged and frustrated after hitting a growth spurt her junior year and finding she couldn't breeze through long distance events quite as [...]

Byline: Dan Roth After a strong indoor season that culminated in a first-team All-Met selection, Potomac (Va.) junior Donovan Louis decided to hang up his football cleats and focus on [...]

Byline: Dan Roth After a strong indoor season that culminated in a first-team All-Met selection, Potomac (Va.) junior Donovan Louis decided to hang up his football cleats and focus on [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Some teams utilize pregame bus rides as time for silent reflection on the task ahead. The Sherwood softball team's 32-mile drive to Glen Burnie on Tuesday was [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Elizabeth Seton senior Lauren Morgan entered Saturday's Washington Catholic Athletic Conference track and field championships with her school's streak of 10 consecutive titles, and her own streak [...]

Byline: Dan Roth The crowd's volume steadily grew as Wilson junior Isaac Frumkin approached the finish line in the 4x400 relay, a warning that somebody was gaining ground behind him [...]

Byline: Dan Roth C.H. Flowers senior Pharist O'Neal entered the last day of her final Prince George's County Championships on Saturday determined to have no regrets or room for second-guessing. [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Battlefield's Lauren Hoffman held the fastest 400-meter hurdles time in the country until last weekend, when she finished second at a meet in South Carolina and watched [...]

Byline: Dan Roth With two outs, a 1-2 count and the bases loaded in the eighth inning of a scoreless game, Leonardtown sophomore Laila Brooks punctuated a pitchers' duel with [...]

Byline: Dan Roth With two outs, a 1-2 count and the bases loaded in the eighth inning of a scoreless game, Leonardtown sophomore Laila Brooks punctuated a pitcher's duel with [...]

Byline: Dillon Mullan;Dan Roth The hashtag first appeared in the spring of 2015. First at Broad Run, then across the rest of Loudoun County, and soon all over Northern Virginia, [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Broad Run senior Travis Hugg didn't let the biting headwind slow him down as he launched himself 20 feet 9 inches Friday night to win the boys' [...]

Byline: Dan Roth TOWSON, Md. -- Even after playing her final game in a Largo uniform, Stephanie Guihon refused to put aside her leadership role. Her voice quaked, but the [...]

Byline: Dan Roth The Largo Lions made one thing abundantly clear in the early going of Friday's Maryland 2A state semifinal against Marriotts Ridge: The paint, on both ends of [...]

Byline: Dan Roth The Largo Lions made one thing abundantly clear in the early going of Friday's Maryland 2A state semifinal against Marriotts Ridge: The paint, on both ends of [...]

Byline: Dan Roth With a six-point lead and Ryle Burley at the free throw line with 22 seconds remaining, the rest of the Potomac players on the court struggled to [...]

Byline: Dan Roth After cruising to a dominant win over defending state champion Monacan in the Virginia High School League 4A quarterfinals, No. 12 Loudoun Valley hit its first speed [...]