Stonewall Jackson seniors Bailey Hollifield, Sidney Rubenstein and Gerardo Sanchez each helped the boys soccer program even with limited playing time.

Amelia Sacco and Maddy Woolever have been a big part of Sherando’s rise as a girls tennis program the last four years.

Sherando senior Gracie Ridings said recently that she’d primarily been a cheerleader during her high school career, though as a sophomore a friend talked her into checking out the Warriors’ track and field program. Seeing it as a chance to branch out, she recalled, Ridings gave the sport a shot.

Most Virginia turkey hunters associate spring gobbler season with mixed farm country and wood lots or vast reaches of national forest land covered with mature hardwood forests. But there’s another kind of wild turkey habitat. And it offers an intriguing opportunity if you want to travel for …

Strasburg’s seven seniors played a big role in turning the girls soccer program around.

After spending five years in Strasburg High School’s athletics program, Delainey Stickley said she thinks back on all of the mentors she’s had and the people who have stood by her side through the ups and downs of her high school career.

The Shenandoah Swim League announced on Thursday that the summer swim season has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Central’s four seniors were all part of the girls tennis program going from the bottom to the top.

Stonewall Jackson senior Ella Hervo-Smith said there was one life lesson in particular that she learned from her time in the school’s track and field program, one that the late Dick Krol, the former longtime head coach who passed away last October, frequently preached to his athletes.

Sherando’s six girls soccer seniors were different from some of the past groups but they were still special to head coach Rob Kilmer.

Pieces of ice formed in the guides of the graphite fly rod and my breath exhaled in whorls of white mist as I cast to the dark forms hovering near the bottom of Michigan’s Pere Marquette River. Suddenly, almost imperceptibly, the head of one fish turned slightly. Its white mouth opened. Inst…

Some of the seniors on Central’s track and field team are longtime members who have spent their entire high school careers with the program. Others were late arrivals who opted to pick up the sport as they progressed toward the end of their time as high school student-athletes.

Ethan Kuhstoss had never played tennis until last year when one of his friends suggested he give it a try – one year later Kuhstoss can't get enough of the sport.

When Joe Bauserman took over as the head coach of Strasburg’s baseball program four years ago, a few of the Rams’ current seniors were starting their high school careers as freshmen at the varsity level. By the end of that 2017 season, Bauserman said recently, three or four of those seniors …

Central’s six girls soccer seniors have left a definite mark on the program.

Warren County’s baseball program has been a prime example of progression for the past three seasons.

Strasburg's girls tennis team did not get to have their first season, but the two seniors made a big impact on the program that will be felt for years to come.

Steelhead are a blast to catch any way possible as they surge upstream, fresh from lake or sea on their mating ritual. Cast lures on wild Alaska rivers, drift spawn on New York’s Salmon, back-troll on the mighty Skagit River in the shadows of Mount Baker. But the fact is, taking these large …

Aaliyah Chunn is Skyline’s school-record holder in the girls high jump and a state medalist for the Hawks’ track and field team, and yet her favorite memory from her time in the program has nothing to do with any of her exploits on the track.

This was supposed to be a big year for Skyline’s boys soccer team.

It’s a disappointing reality for Sherando’s Owen Even, as it is for many high school seniors who saw their athletic careers brought to an early end by COVID-19.

The Virginia High School League Executive Committee voted Thursday to cancel all spring sports activities for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Strasburg's boys tennis program held it's first-ever preseason this year and seniors Aidan Keller and Jack Miller played a key role in getting things off the ground.

The seniors on Skyline’s softball team were fortunate enough to be a part of the program during some of the best seasons in the Hawks’ history, some playing key roles in deep postseason runs the previous two years.

Sherando's nine seniors were a special group to boys soccer coach Pat Anderson.

Too often people think of habitat projects in terms of large undertakings such as planting food plots or selectively thinning a forest. Actually there are many projects that can be done inexpensively and with just a short amount of work that will benefit wildlife.

If there was one thing that stood out to Central’s softball seniors above all else during the time they spent with the program, it’s the bond they shared with their teammates.

Even though the season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Warren County's five seniors on the girls tennis team all came together in the preseason and led the way.

Track and field wasn’t an easy sport for Strasburg senior Tessa Hockman to pick up when she began high school four years ago.

Stonewall Jackson girls soccer seniors Chloe Monroe and Jannine Nunez-Vargas played roles in the program’s success over the last few years.

Stonewall Jackson baseball coach Brady Kibler said recently that he couldn’t have asked for a better senior group to help the Generals transition into his first season at the helm of the program, a campaign ultimately cut short by COVID-19.

Valerie Kibler never pictured herself being a journalism teacher, but 32 years later she's still going strong.

Adam Dirting, Elijah Del Junco and Chase Rimel were more than just Central's top three in its boys tennis lineup.

Many people associate spring with hunting turkeys, but if you travel to Texas or a few other states you can also hunt exotic big game animals at this time of year. In fact, a turkey-exotic hunt is a favorite combination trip in Texas in spring. Axis deer and blackbuck antelope are the two ma…

Anthony Cadle, a member of Strasburg’s cross country program and a distance runner on the Rams’ track and field team, said recently that sports taught him the value of hard work.

Soccer created a friendship.

All seven seniors on Sherando’s softball team had either already cemented themselves in major roles within the program during previous seasons or were in a spot to make meaningful contributions in 2020. Three, in particular, have etched their names throughout the Warriors’ record book.

The game of basketball has taken Kallie Hovatter on a journey and she wouldn’t want it any other way.

Jake Payne wasn’t surprised when the XFL, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, halted its operations midway through its return season last month, as it was inevitable that the rebooted football league would follow the lead of other professional leagues that had taken the same actions. The real …

Stonewall Jackson seniors Marleigh Councill, Kiersten Dodson, Leigha Kagey and Faith Morrison made a big and lasting impact on the girls tennis program.

While local high school football teams can't do their usual offseason workouts at school, some area teams are finding new ways to keep players active during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Most of Skyline’s quartet of seniors were ready to make their first major impacts on the Hawks’ baseball program this spring. One senior, pitcher/shortstop Sam Harris, had already left a major mark before entering what was supposed to be his final high school season in 2020, a campaign broug…

Central's four seniors on the boys soccer team each played a special role in the success of the team the last few years.

Hunkered back against a thick live oak in the Texas Hill Country, I listened mesmerized as dozens of Rio Grande gobblers serenaded the morning. One would call out, and then seconds later a chorus of dozens of other birds would chime in immediately.

Sports can often be the source of lessons learned that can be applied to all aspects of life. For a few of Warren County’s track and field seniors, the lack of a spring season this year is a reminder of the trials life sometimes throws your way. Kyra Robinson said recently that her experienc…

Strasburg's boys soccer team only had two seniors on this year's squad but they were both valuable to the team's success.

The outside basketball court at Lord Fairfax Community College has been the site of some intense one-on-one basketball lately.