Commentary: Latest Reports from The Washington Posts ‘Recruiting Insider’

Here are the latest reports from The Washington Posts ‘Recruiting Insider’.

George Mason soccer commits Emma and Shannon Lee lead Battlefield’s quest for third straight state title

Emma and Shannon Lee did not initially intend for their college recruitment to take them to the same place. But for paternal twins who have been playing soccer together since the age of 3, it came as no surprise when their paths again intersected. After first inquiring with other coaches about Shannon during her freshman […]

Poolesville three-sport standout Casey Harkins among 18 Minds in Motion scholarship recipients

Casey Harkins didn’t spend much time relaxing in her four years at Poolesville. Instead, she bounced around from sport to sport — field hockey, basketball, lacrosse — participating on a school team all 12 high school seasons and taking home 10 varsity letters. That’s made the last couple weeks a “weird” experience for the senior American lacrosse commit, who said she’s felt […]

Washington & Jefferson signee Jaime Schmier prevails over pressure for undefeated Sherwood softball

A year ago, after finishing her first season as Sherwood‘s starting pitcher by singing “We are the champions” on the bus ride home from the Maryland 4A softball championship, Jaime Schmier thought the hardest part of her job was complete. Sherwood had won its fourth state title in a row, Schmier had proved herself a […]

Twenty five area girls’ lacrosse recruits make the cut for underclass all-American teams

The postseason awards are starting to pile up for Washington area lacrosse players and last week saw the release of Under Armour’s various underclass all-American teams for girls’ lacrosse. The Washington, D.C. team features 20 of the region’s top players, while five additional players from the The Post’s coverage area were also included on the Baltimore-based team. They […]

Two-time All-Met POY Carly Reed leads North Carolina to NCAA women’s lacrosse title

To pull off an upset of the two-time defending NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse champion and previously unbeaten Maryland in Sunday’s final, the North Carolina Tar Heels got a lot of help from some players who grew up not too far from the College Park campus. Two days after netting a career-high five goals in […]

Final wave of Under Armour all-Americans includes several more Washington area lacrosse players

The final wave of Under Armour all-Americans in boys’ and girls lacrosse were released earlier this week and the prestigious all-star game has added several more impact players from around the Washington area. On the boys’ side, Georgetown Prep senior Terry Lindsay was honored as an Under Armour all-American, although the midfielder won’t be able […]

Meade basketball star Tristan Easton keeps it close, commits to Bowie State

Meade boys’ basketball Coach Pete Corriero knew from the start that he had a special player in Tristan Easton. It wasn’t just that he had the size and athleticism to play on varsity, but the then-freshman’s on-court maturity was beyond his years. “[He’d] not only compete,” Corriero said, “but compete at a very high level.” But not […]

St. Anselm’s three-sport captain Nathan Dangle earns prestigious Penn scholarship

Last Thursday, St. Anselm’s senior Nathan Dangle had the worst kind of birthday blowout. Dangle’s 18th birthday coincided with the last day he would don a uniform for the all boys prep school off South Dakota Avenue in Northeast Washington. After St. Anselm’s was eliminated by St. Albans, 15-2, in the first round of the District […]

Spalding’s Tyler Blohm, Flint Hill’s Khalil Lee and St. John’s Cam Remalia named Gatorade state baseball players of the year

The Gatorade state baseball players of the year were announced Tuesday and a trio of local seniors completed a clean sweep for locals in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. In Maryland, Spalding senior pitcher Tyler Blohm earned the honor thanks to stellar season on the mound. The Cavaliers’ ace went 9-0 with a 0.71 ERA and […]

Ballou point guard Ayonna Williams gets an assist from her championship flag football team

Back when Ballou girls’ basketball star Ayonna Williams was a freshman, Coach Andrew Gaston made a successful pitch for her to join him on the school’s flag football team. He reasoned that it would be a good way to improve her conditioning, and those words proved prescient this spring as the Knights won the D.C. Interscholastic […]

Gonzaga becomes the first school to three-peat as national rugby champions

Since picking up the sport of rugby as a freshman, Dante Lopresti has thrown his focus behind one area of training prior to each season. This past offseason, the senior chose conditioning. Three months into the spring campaign, with short-handed Gonzaga treading through a field tattered and torn by rain storms during last week’s Boys’ […]

Shootouts, last-second scores and showers make up a wild Virginia spring sports playoff weekend

Spring sports playoffs are in full bloom, which means two things — a slew of exciting games just about every day and plenty of rain showers to go along with them. With roughly 75 postseason contests going on over the weekend, our staff was stretched pretty thin, so here’s a roundup of some of the […]

Led by seven college commits, Riverdale Baptist baseball wins a school-record 30 straight games

Two months ago, when Riverdale Baptist’s baseball season began, the Crusaders would have been happy with one win. Facing one of its toughest schedules in recent memory, one of the area’s most storied teams looked like a shell of itself following two losses in its first three games. But even though the Crusaders roster featured its […]

Seventeen-year-old American Jacob Labovitz navigates Europe in search of a pro soccer career

His scoring barrage spurred local dominance, helping Langley capture its first soccer state championship last spring. His motivation, as it turns out, drew sustenance from a more global vision: Jacob Labovitz wanted to thrive in Europe. Labovitz explored the idea with his family as a 16-year-old sophomore last winter, just weeks before he spearheaded a […]

Photos: Sherwood softball shuts out Howard to win 100th consecutive game

The Sherwood softball team entered the season on the back of four consecutive straight state titles and a winning streak dating back to 2011. After cruising through the regular season with just one win decided by three runs or fewer, the Warriors extended their unbeaten run to triple digits in their second playoff game, a […]

‘Nigerian connection’ with former George Mason star Tony Skinn leads St. Andrew’s G/F Anthony Duruji to Louisiana Tech

St. Andrew’s junior Anthony Duruji forged his own multi-sport, multi-school recruiting path, and it resulted in a commitment to Louisiana Tech earlier this week. But if not for a 2006 Cinderella story, the high-flying swingman might have never even considered heading south and playing for the Conference USA program. Tony Skinn, a Louisiana Tech assistant, was a […]

Oakton’s Tess Sapone, Wilson’s Kaili Gregory named Gatorade state players of the year for girls’ soccer

Two local senior soccer players added another accolade to their accomplished high school careers Tuesday. Oakton’s Tess Sapone and Wilson’s Kaili Gregory were named Gatorade players of the year for their respective states. Gregory earned the distinction in February, when the award was announced for states that play soccer in the fall. A Florida signee […]

Fairfax seniors Tessa Bechert, Michael Breslin named VHSL athletes of the year

When Fairfax senior Tessa Bechert told her friends she’d been named the Virginia 6A female athlete of the year by the Virginia High School League and The Allstate Foundation, they were shocked. “They were like, ‘What?! You didn’t even play sports this year,’” Bechert said. Even while needing 10 months to recover from a concussion, […]

Seven more Washington area lacrosse players selected for Under Armour all-America games

Seven more Washington area girls’ and boys’ lacrosse players were named Under Armour all-Americans as part of the event’s third wave of selections on Monday. On the boys’ side, Gonzaga’s Nick McEvoy and Ryan Finlay and Bullis senior Nicky Petkevich joined Gonzaga midfielder Avery Myers as representatives from The Post’s coverage area. St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes attack […]

Breanna Mitchell returns from a broken foot to give Dominion soccer a lift up top

The goals kept coming, first at a surprising pace during her freshman year, then in record-setting bunches during a sophomore campaign that culminated with a Virginia girls’ soccer state championship. But unlike some of her friends, Dominion soccer standout Breanna Mitchell never found herself on the receiving end of a flood of offers from collegiate programs. […]

O’Connell’s Nate Watson draws invite to NBPA Top 100 and attention from Kansas, North Carolina, among others
First he got a phone call, the initial step in turning the unfamiliar 919 area code that flashed on his screen into what Nate Watson now hopes is the precursor for yet another scholarship offer. But when North Carolina assistant Hubert Davis walked into the O’Connell gym late last month with the intention of seeing […]

Annapolis Area Christian basketball star Justin Williams signs late scholarship with George Washington

Annapolis Area Christian senior Justin Williams knows the exact date and time he officially became a Division I basketball recruit. It was Sunday May 1 at 9:13 p.m. and George Washington men’s basketball Coach Mike Lonergan was on the phone following Williams’ official visit to school during the previous weekend. The Colonials had been watching […]

Fairfax High School’s 4×100 relay team uses a high jump pole as its baton — and goes viral

Te’Ona Witherspoon can’t remember how fast she and her Fairfax teammates ran what would be their last 4×100 relay race on their home track. And quite frankly, neither will any of the thousands of people who have since witnessed last Wednesday’s event via social media. That’s because the Rebels sprinted past the competition while using […]

Seneca Valley RB Adrian Platt is ‘an animal’ sizing up the competition

At first glance, Adrian Platt looks like the prototypical speed back. And to an extent, he is. Seneca Valley’s 5-foot-7 rising senior is a big-play threat on any given snap, using his light feet to dance around defenders and his lightning quickness to break through for long runs. But if it seems like Platt is […]

Mount St. Mary’s softball commit Alexis Donovan leaves her mark at Elizabeth Seton

Alexis Donovan wasn’t thinking about herself when she took the risks. As a four-year starter in center field for Elizabeth Seton, Donovan could be found with her face in the dirt, laying out for flyballs others wouldn’t think of trying to catch. No matter the degree of difficulty, Donovan felt horrible any time she didn’t make […]

Washington-Lee midfielder Lucas Mendes stunned by Gatorade National Boys’ Soccer Player of the Year honor

Lucas Mendes came into his first high school soccer season with supreme expectations. The D.C. United Academy midfielder wanted to help Washington-Lee lift its first state title trophy, a prize that painfully eluded the Generals in the 6A championship two years ago against T.C. Williams. The state tournament is still a month away, but so […]

Landon’s Nate Buller returns from injury just in time for an IAC lacrosse tournament run

Landon junior Nate Buller could have let the broken thumb devour his entire spring, and initially that’s exactly what he allowed it to do. The standout attack on the Bears’ boys’ lacrosse team suffered the injury in the second game of the season, and “it was a weird break,” he said. “It was a clean […]