On April 7th, 2025 the Florida Gators men’s basketball team defeated the Houston Cougars, 65-63, to win their third college basketball national championship.  The Gators have had a rocky ride throughout the season, losing to Kentucky, Tennessee,...

For the second time in the history of the March Madness tournament, four one seeds will play in the final four. The only other time that this has happened was in the 2007-2008 season. The four teams lucky enough to make it this far are Auburn, Houston,...

The West Potomac Wire held a Pi Day contest during C and D lunches on March 14, where students competed to recite the most digits of Pi they could from memory. Students who recited the highest amount of digits of Pi were rewarded with apple pie, which...

On March 20th, 2025, the annual March Madness tournament begins. This year, there is unimaginable excitement around the tournament, with many exciting teams and players making the tournament this year. The teams with the most hype are the one seeds for...

Spring Sports tryouts will get underway, starting on February 24th, and lasting until February 28th. Tryouts will take place for the following sports: Baseball, Softball, Soccer, Lacrosse, Tennis, and Track and Field.  Baseball tryouts will be held...

After a tiring, long playoff drought Commanders fans have had the right to be disappointed with their franchise. When new owner Josh Harris bought the team in July 2023, he was ready to turn the team around. The Commanders finished the 2023-2024 season...

Ms. Symone Jenkins, English teacher for 9th and 10th grade at West Po, loves teaching English because of being able to see each student's progress in writing overtime and seeing how far her students come from the beginning to the end of the school year. Ms....

Instead of being stuck with 1,000 Chick-Fil-A sandwiches and enough pizza for a playoff crowd, West Po’s home playoff football game on November 15th was suddenly canceled due to Hayfield being allowed back into the playoffs. Luckily, the West Potomac...

Youngkin’s executive order 33 will ban cell phones across all Virginia schools. There are no exceptions including lunch or passing periods. Students may use their phones before the first bell rings, but once the first period starts all phones must be...

On September 4th 2024, Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia received a phone call from the mother of a student at the school. The mother warned that there was an “extreme emergency” and asked for administrators to take her son out of class immediately....

With a new school year, many new changes have arrived. One of the most important changes that principal Statz has introduced is the altercations to advisory. Last year, everyone remained in their advisory for the entire 90 minutes, but this year, the...

Ms. Megan Greer is a math teacher that started teaching three years ago, and all three of those years have been at West Po. She loves teaching because she wants to be able to make kids enjoy math and help them master math as a subject. She loves nothing...

The 2024 NFL Draft was one of the most anticipated drafts of all time, and it didn’t disappoint. With huge offensive line, wide receiver, and quarterback prospects, it is no surprise that this was the most attended draft of all time with 700,000 people...

Next fall, on November 5, Americans will be faced with a choice of who they want as the next president. The choices will be between the Democratic incumbent president Joe Biden, and the Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump....

Looking back, the 2023-2024 NFL has been one of the worst years for injuries in the league to date. Many players have had injuries that have ended their seasons and lots more that have kept them out for the majority of the season. The most notable...

On February 11th 2024,  Super Bowl 58, between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs kicked off from Las Vegas Nevada in Allegiant Stadium.  This matchup was a rematch of the 2020 superbowl, 49ers vs Chiefs. In that game the Chiefs won...

As of 2020, the Young Democrats and Young Republicans clubs disappeared from the West Po clubs roster after running from 2001-2020. There was also a Democratic Socialist club for a short time, but it’s also not operational. Why did these clubs disappear,...

The freshmen class have been participating in a basketball unit in the gym for the past month. The teams were split into groups of 5-7 in each class. Each team had a coach/captain, assistant coach, equipment manager, spirit coordinator, fitness instructor,...

During the summer of 2023, three former military officials informed congress that the government is hiding things about UFOs that they haven’t told the public. There have been many recent reports about UFOs and aliens, yet there is still so much that...

The Ultimate Bathroom Survival Guide Despite an outstanding custodial staff who works to keep things sparkling, bathrooms at  West Po are still notorious for being dirty, broken or even dangerous.  Even though they are brand new and should have...