Plenty of events shaped the area’s sports landscape outside of the high school scene in 2019.
WOODSTOCK — Massanutten Military Academy postgraduate boys basketball coach Curtis Peery said on Wednesday night that the Colonels are about where they expected to be at this point in the season.
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WOODSTOCK – Members of Massanutten Military Academy’s postgraduate basketball team said they were shocked to learn former head coach Chad Myers was leaving to take another job just days before players were scheduled to report to campus for the upcoming school year.
Players on Massanutten Military Academy’s 2019-20 postgraduate boys basketball team report to the school’s Woodstock campus on Friday afternoon. They’ll do so, it turns out, without head coach Chad Myers.
WOODSTOCK — Massanutten Military Academy postgraduate basketball players Dereon Seabron, Brandon Suggs and Jarvis Vaughan each gave their verbal pledges to college suitors back in January. Those three have made official their college hoops destinations.
Massanutten Military Academy’s postgraduate boys basketball team saw its season come to an end a win short of reaching the program’s first-ever National Prep Championship tournament finals.
WOODSTOCK — Massanutten Military Academy forward Jarvis Vaughan said recently he thinks the Colonels’ postgraduate basketball squad is a different team than the one that suffered three losses through the first half of the season.
WOODSTOCK – Four seconds into the second half of Thursday night’s regular-season finale against visiting Bristol Prep, Massanutten Military Academy’s postgrad team purposefully committed a foul to give its five starters a chance to step off their home court for the last time this season.
WOODSTOCK - Mariam Traore wants to play Division 1 college basketball and get an education and her path to that dream has led her to Massanutten Military Academy.
WOODSTOCK — When Mahamadou Diawara was younger, his athletic aspirations didn’t at all include basketball.
WOODSTOCK -- The National Prep Championship is only weeks away, and Massanutten Military Academy postgraduate boys basketball coach Chad Myers likes where his Colonels sit as the end of their regular season draws near.
Rasir Bolton (MMA post-grad ’18) is having a great freshman season for Penn State University.
WOODSTOCK – On many nights, a near seven-minute field goal drought in the first half would be an anxiety-inducing moment for most basketball teams. But when Massanutten Military Academy’s postgraduate squad experienced such a stretch on Wednesday night, Fork Union Military Academy never came…
WOODSTOCK – Massanutten Military Academy point guard Dereon Seabron said two weeks ago, when discussing his college basketball future, that he was searching for a school that fit his style of play, that could offer early playing time, that was a winner and could help him become a better man …
WOODSTOCK -- Dereon Seabron opted to go the postgraduate basketball route out of high school to increase his stock as a college prospect. He’s done so much more than that with his enrollment at Massanutten Military Academy this school year.
WOODSTOCK — On the second attempt, Jarren McAllister has found his college home.
A few weeks ago Randolph College’s Autumn Troxell (Warren County ’15) had a historic moment on the volleyball court.
Massanutten Military Academy Post Graduate basketball coach Chad Myers talks with team members during practice on Tuesday in Woodstock. Rich Cooley/DailyMassanutten Military Academy’s Connor Withers tries to dribble between Brandon Suggs, left, and Jarvis Vaughan, right, during practice on T…
Old Dominion University pulled off one of the biggest upsets in years on Saturday when the Monarchs beat Virginia Tech, 49-35. A former Massanutten Military Academy standout ad a big role in the win.
WOODSTOCK – Massanutten Military Academy’s postgraduate basketball doesn’t begin its regular season for another month, but head coach Chad Myers has already gotten an in-depth look at the 2018-19 roster since the Colonels reported to campus last month. Two differences from last season’s team…
WOODSTOCK – Chad Myers is finally seeing one of his dreams come to fruition.
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WOODSTOCK – Gus Okafor’s pursuit of an NCAA Division I basketball scholarship was a lesson in patience for the Massanutten Military Academy postgraduate guard/forward. Last month he finally got the offer that he’d been hunting, and he’s made his college destination official.
WOODSTOCK – Massanutten Military Academy holds a Founder’s Day Weekend and the traditional homecoming celebration, but there hasn’t been much incentive for the school’s postgraduate basketball players to return to the small boarding school after their departure. Colonels head coach Chad Myer…
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WOODSTOCK – Massanutten Military Academy’s postgraduate boys basketball team is back in the National Prep Championship.
WOODSTOCK – For most of Saturday’s George Sheetz Classic championship game, Quality Education Academy gave Massanutten Military Academy’s nationally ranked postgraduate boys basketball team everything it could handle. The Colonels looked like one of the premier postgrad teams in the country …
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WOODSTOCK – Massanutten Military Academy postgraduate boys basketball coach Chad Myers first met Rasir Bolton several years ago when the latter was an eighth grader playing for the AAU club Team Loaded. At the time, Myers was unsure if he’d ever get the chance to coach the point guard from P…
Massanutten Military Academy’s Isaiah Salter collides with Fork Union’s James Taylor as Taylor tries to regain possession on a steal attempt during first half action Thursday night in Woodstock. Rich Cooley/DailyMMA’s Gus Okafor goes up under the basket to score against Fork Union’s JP Corse…
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Massanutten Military Academy’s Tyrese Martin floats through the lane to score during first half action Wednesday night against Beckley Prep Academy in Woodstock. Rich Cooley/DailyMMA’s Gus Okafor goes up for a dunk over Beckley Prep Academy’s Jonny Bowers during first half action Wednesday n…
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Saturday’s results
Massanutten Military Academy postgraduate basketball coach Chad Myers gives instructions to his team as guard Rasir Bolton, right, looks on during a practice session this week in Woodstock. Rich Cooley/DailyMahamadou Diawara dunks the ball during a practice session at MMA this week in Woodst…
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