Editor’s note: The following story ran in The Northern Virginia Daily on Nov. 29, 1996.

QUICKSBURG — Bonds that lasted a lifetime.

High school athletic departments across the state have an official roadmap to follow for the 2020-21 school year.

The Virginia High School League is expected to approve it’s “Championships +1” schedule for the 2020-21 sports season today at an VHSL Executive Committee meeting.

The high school football season was supposed to start tonight but instead, stadiums across the area will be empty.

The Friday night lights will remain dark this fall, but in the absence of high school football, we’re going to take a trip into the past.

Football workouts have been going on for over a month now and already players are seeing signs of success.

NEW MARKET – Once again one inning proved costly for New Market on Tuesday night.

If the high school sports season can start in December it may be able to wiggle its way through the COVID-19 pandemic, but winter weather could still cause some issues.

The community lost a beloved teacher, coach and athletic director on Wednesday.

With Monday’s decision by the Virginia High School League to push the sports year back to December, athletic directors can move forward with trying to figure out how things will work. However, there are still a lot of questions that will need to be answered before sports can start.

The Virginia High School League Executive Committee on Monday morning adopted a reopening plan for high school athletics that delays the start date for all sports until mid-December and condenses the fall, winter and spring seasons.

The Virginia High School League’s decision Monday to push sports back to December wasn’t a surprise to area athletic directors.

The Virginia High School League Executive Committee will meet this morning to decide what to do with high school sports in the fall.

High school athletic offseason workouts resumed over the last two weeks throughout the area and so far things have been running smoothly.

The Virginia High School League will vote on Monday to make a decision about fall sports. One of the three options is to flip fall and spring sports.

Though hardly a shocking revelation for coaches, players and fans, Wednesday’s news that high school football almost surely won’t happen in Virginia this fall is a disappointing reality for those invested in the sport.

Virginia High School League Executive Director Billy Haun unveiled three models for reopening high school activities in the state during a special-called Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday morning, giving member schools their first real glimpse at the potential landscape of high school…

Central head football coach Mike Yew said on Monday evening that it “almost felt like there was a small sense of normalcy to our being again.”

The Virginia High School League’s Executive Committee is scheduled to meet to discuss fall sports this morning, and though a final decision on whether or not to hold a fall season during the COVID-19 pandemic likely won’t be made, local athletic directors and coaches are hoping the meeting a…

New Market Shockers head coach Nolan Potts believed going into the season that pitching would be his team's strong suit and through three games that has proven true.

Some local high school athletes will be back at their schools next week to resume offseason workouts.

High school sports are on hold for at least a little while longer.

The Virginia High School League announced Thursday that fall schedules for athletics and activities will be delayed.

There likely will be no decision about fall sports today at the Virginia High School League’s Executive Committee meeting but there will be plenty to discuss.

It is undecided as to exactly when high school athletes will start offseason workouts, though athletic directors in Shenandoah and Warren county schools are hopeful they can be back as soon as July 6.

Stonewall Jackson coach Kyle Kokkenon is trying to look at the bright side of a bad situation.

The Virginia High School League announced on Thursday that it is reinstating out-of-season practice activities.

The New Market Rebels, of the Valley Baseball League, may not be playing at Rebel Park but there will be baseball there this summer.

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

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

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.

The Virginia High School League sent out a news release Tuesday stating that it is working on plans to possibly have fall athletics and activities in the upcoming season.

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.

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.

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

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

Colton Harlow is ready for a second chance.

Jeff Burner was a history teacher at Stonewall Jackson for 22 years so it’s no surprise that the longtime girls basketball coach is interested in Stonewall Jackson’s sports history.

Stonewall Jackson girls basketball coach Jeff Burner has been keeping residents entertained during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the spring sports season being canceled by the Virginia High School League due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday athletic departments around the state may have taken a hit.

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