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The student voice of West Potomac High School

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The student voice of West Potomac High School

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Sports

Skopp-Cardillo diving into the pool for a swimming race.

6-0 Is the Way to Go: Swim & Dive

Leigh Kovalsky, Reporter Jan 29, 2018

With a 6-0 record, the West Potomac swim & dive team has owned the pool this season, despite the change of a new coach, Laurel Grezeler. Freshman swimmer Juliana Skopp-Cardillo enjoyed her first season as a wolverine swimmer. “This team is...

Freshmen Girls' Basketball: Getting Into the Swing

Freshmen Girls’ Basketball: Getting Into the Swing

Jaida Atkins-Brown, Reporter Jan 3, 2018

Basketball season is in full swing, with the girls’ freshman team at 6-1. Because the season is just starting, the girls have been practicing hard and learning through preliminary scrimmages, finding their way to being a team. “I expect for...

Freshman Lauren Koelsh doing homework before her JV basketball game.

School+Sports=Struggle: Freshmen Perspectives

Ruth Dean, Reporter Dec 16, 2017

Every freshman is full of nerves when they first enter high school: will it be hard? Am I going to get lost? But this stress is magnified when sports enter the picture. Practice every day after school plus homework and tests can really make freshman year...

Wolverine Football Moves Past Westfield Defeat

Wolverine Football Moves Past Westfield Defeat

Chase Hanson, Reporter Nov 1, 2017

Last Friday’s football game against Westfield High School was a nailbiter. The final score of 21-14 marked a loss for West Potomac. The team put up a fight and the score was tied throughout most of the game. “They are right up there with the elite...

Amanda Hail playing in the stands at a football game.

Freshmen Face First Marching Band Competition

Rimshaw Hassan, Reporter Oct 30, 2017

Freshmen are getting ready for their first marching band competition. The band practices eight hours a week, and the competition hours will bring the total up to 16 hours. Freshman Amanda Hail plays the flute and can’t wait to perform. Hail has competed...

Freshman Isabella Irwin races with ball in game against Annandale.

Bring On the Titans

Addison Stangler, Reporter Oct 12, 2017

The JV field hockey team has fought to win six out of the seven games they’ve played this season. Ten players have scored to push the team to victory so far. “We have a lot of good scorers, and we are a very balanced team,” head coach Anne Stewart...

Andrzejuk (center right) and her friends.

First Football Friday for Freshmen

A first glance into the stands of a West Potomac football game shows excited high schoolers with big smiles on their faces--but how many of these students are freshmen, and are they smiling, too? Bell Andrzejuk attended her first football game as a high...

World Languages Department Hosts its 6th Annual Soccer Tournament

World Languages Department Hosts its 6th Annual Soccer Tournament

Spencer Bao, Reporter Jun 14, 2017

On June 8, the World Languages department hosted its sixth annual soccer tournament, in which six teams played. This year’s teams were Borrosia Dormot, Blue Eagles, La Mano de Dios, Legendary, Dream Team, and the Juventus. Each team had 10 players,...

Cassidy Bayer (right) with her mother

Bayer Commits to Berkeley

Bella DeMaso May 24, 2017

Most seniors just decided on what college they’ll attend next year, but Junior Cassidy Bayer is ahead of the game--she just committed to University of California, Berkeley for swimming.   “I really liked the San Francisco area and the team...

Sophomore Mary Bell (left) and junior Ashlyn Hendrix (middle) giving gifts to senior Catherine Chittal

Soccer Seniors Celebrate in Style

Jasmine McGee May 12, 2017

West Potomac Girls’ Varsity Soccer Senior Night was more like a Senior Day. Arriving at school on Tuesday morning, the senior teammates were greeted by their names and jersey numbers painted on the school rock in neon colors.   Throughout...

Fort Hunt Lacrosse Night

Matthew Hanley May 4, 2017

As the Junior Varsity lacrosse players lined up for the opening face-off, so did the entrance to the stadium. The stands started to fill with local youth lacrosse players participating in Fort Hunt Night and hoping to someday be where the West Potomac...

West Potomac Varsity Baseball Defeats T.C. Williams, 4-1

Grant Benick Apr 24, 2017

Coming off of a strong win against West Springfield on Tuesday, the West Potomac Varsity team defeated T.C. Williams 4-1 on Friday, April 21st. The Wolverines took the lead for good with two runs in the third inning. In the third, Patrick Aitken doubled...