D.C. Public Schools said Wednesday that 18-year old Jamal Speaks will be allowed to play and practice with his team until an investigation is completed.

The undefeated Cavaliers started their WCAC membership with a 2-0 win over DeMatha.

Flint Hill, Northwest and Loudoun County's hold on the top three spots continues for another week.

Mount Vernon, Episcopal and St. Charles also get off to fast, exciting starts.

What the Whitman-Churchill rivalry tells us about soccer in Maryland this year.

Northwest turned a long opening day into a satisfying victory.

Chesapeake and St. John's round out the top three.

Gonzaga, Landon and Churchill join the Barons and the Vikings in the top five.

Park View was one of three local schools to cancel its varsity football team this season.

The small school has a reputation of playing above its size.

At the Class 6 level of the Virginia spring soccer playoffs, Regions C and D are loaded with some of the best teams in Northern Virginia. Over the next few days they will compete for spots in the state playoffs, ending seasons in the process. In the Region C bracket, Stuart earned a first-round bye […]

The Virginia Class 6 regional girls’ soccer brackets are set and the action has already begun. In Region C, second round games are set to begin on Wednesday night. T.C. Williams is a top seed to watch. After a first-round bye, the Titans begin their run with a game against West Potomac, a team they […]

History was made this weekend at the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference track championships. For the first time in school history, St. John’s took home a title. The Cadets won the girls’ championship on a wet Saturday afternoon at Good Counsel, while DeMatha took the boys’ title for the 16th time in school history. The St. […]

The Lake Braddock baseball team is hoping the dogpile that the players formed Saturday night is the first of a few this postseason. With a 4-1 win over West Springfield, the Bruins won the Patriot District tournament. They have yet to lose a game to a local Virginia opponent this season, with their three losses […]

The Stone Bridge softball team’s first game of the season against Broad Run ended in rare but real disappointment, but the Bulldogs’ second game against the Spartans showed potency and potential. In the first battle against Broad Run, Stone Bridge’s typically sharp defense seemed dull, its typically loud bats quiet in a 3-2 loss that “left […]

Wise head basketball coach Rob Garner will not be coaching the Pumas next season after the school’s athletic director decided not to renew his contract, Garner confirmed to The Washington Post. Garner informed players and families of the news Thursday. Garner was the head coach at Wise for seven years, collecting a 131-34 record. Before that he […]

The most recent sign that Wilson’s lacrosse program is on the rise was a mosh of players celebrating in the middle of a swampy field in Northeast Washington on Wednesday afternoon. The celebration came after the Tigers defeated St. Alban’s 18-11 in the Washington Independent Lacrosse League finals. Wilson is one of just two varsity […]

Jordan Silkowitz has been in goal for W.T. Woodson for the past four seasons, her career dotted with breathtaking saves. For Cavaliers Coach Warren Williams, one feat of athleticism from Silkowitz’s freshman year sticks out. It was early in the season, and the conditions were frigid. Silkowitz, seeing a ball screaming for the net, dived to her left, […]

Sidwell Friends senior Saddiq Bey was granted his release from North Carolina State on Wednesday, putting the four-star forward back on the hunt for his ideal college program. The 6-foot-7 athlete chose the Wolfpack over Xavier, Miami, Pittsburgh and several other programs in November. In choosing N.C. State, Bey said he felt a connection with the […]

The Patriot District semifinal match between W.T. Woodson and Robinson was one of the few games to be successfully squeezed in during the inclement weather of Tuesday night, and it was a good one. The Cavaliers won their third meeting of the year with the Rams, taking the rubber match 3-2 in a sudden-death third […]

Wilson High boys’ basketball Coach Angelo Hernandez is on administrative leave while D.C. Public Schools investigates whether all of his players live in the Northwest Washington school’s zone, he confirmed to The Washington Post in a brief phone interview last week. Hernandez, who led the Tigers to D.C. city and state championships this past winter […]

Holton-Arms Coach Janet McCormick has spent the past few days texting, calling and emailing as many Panthers alumni as she can. She has a question that past schedules, records and team archives aren’t helping answer. Before Saturday in the Independent School League AA semifinals, when was the last time Holton-Arms beat St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes? “We […]

As Landon and Bullis lined up for postgame handshakes after Friday’s Interstate Athletic Conference championship game — a 9-8 Bullis win in the final seconds — Bears Coach Rob Bordley led his players through the procession while a chant sounded from the student section. “Thank you, Bordley,” the fans yelled between claps. Bordley, who decided […]

Ten local athletics figures were chosen for the DC State Athletic Association Hall of Fame last week, the second group to be picked for the honor after last year’s inaugural selections. Among the choices are former NBA player Dave Bing — an alum of the now-closed Spingarn High School and a former mayor of Detroit. […]

If you were curious just how intense, how insane, how crazy playoff high school baseball can be, just ask the players, parents or fans from Bethesda-Chevy Chase or St. John’s. Both the Barons and the Cadets won in walk-off fashion this weekend. The stakes were different — B-CC was looking to get to the third […]

Banners hang at South Lakes High School for each sport, and every one proclaims the district, regional and state championships won by that team. The softball banner is blank. The No. 7 Seahawks start the postseason this week, and they have plans for a deep playoff run to fill that empty space. South Lakes (17-3) […]

In recent years, the Wootton boys’ tennis team has won so often that it can begin to look easy. The Patriots rack up double-digit victories during the regular season and show up to the Montgomery County championships as one of the favorites each spring. On a muggy Thursday evening at Paint Branch High in Burtonsville, […]

It was April 10 and the Robinson soccer season had officially reached its low point. A talented squad with 15 seniors, the Rams had just blown a two-goal lead against Fairfax to fall to 2-4 on the year. An overtime loss to W.T. Woodson the week before had taken a lot out of the team, and […]

Potomac Falls had been on Briar Woods’ heels all season, on the brink of passing the Falcons in the Potomac district standings. The Panthers ended the regular season one point short of their objective, but might have gained something more valuable: Confidence. Senior defender Mara Carrillo‘s goal off a free kick proved to be the […]

For the better part of the past two decades, the Good Counsel boys’ tennis team has had to sit back and watch the Gonzaga players celebrate one Washington Catholic Athletic Conference title after another. The defending champion Eagles, who had won seven of the last eight WCAC championships, have become a local high school tennis dynasty […]

The 4A classification features perhaps the most competitive bracket in this year’s Maryland state playoffs. Three No. 1 seeds — East region’s Severna Park, West region’s Churchill and North region’s Howard — have made at least one state championship appearance since 2015, and all appear poised for deep postseason runs over the next two weeks. […]