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The hope of a new season. The uncertainty of the first contest. The anticipation of triumph. This week, runners at Rappahannock County High School readied for Wednesday’s contest against Skyline High School of Front Royal on the Hawks’ turf. “We are a young team, but a lot of the runners stayed fit over the...
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Terrence Johnson believes that establishing a winning football program at Rappahannock County High School does not start with the size of a player or even the number of players on the roster. “No matter what, you have to have a winning attitude,” said Johnson, who will debut as the Panthers’ head varsity coach Friday...
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School is back in session, and the harbingers of victory are back on the volleyball court at Rappahannock County High School. With a 3-0 match win on Tuesday (Aug. 24), the varsity and JV volleyball Panthers soundly defeated the Culpeper Blue Devils at Rapp’s first home game of the season. Although sports practices officially...
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New teachers, graduates, post-graduates and award-winners around the county.
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The Rappahannock County School Sports Association (RCSSA) is raffling off a brand new Kubota RTV500 camouflage utility vehicle on Oct. 23 at the Link in Sperryville. Three hundred tickets for the grand prize vehicle will be sold at $100 each. Four second place prizes of $500 each will be awarded. The vehicle will be...
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Anyone who “longboards” can tell you that ripping and shredding the meandering roads of Rappahannock County is pure and simple bliss. There are very few feelings in the world that can give you complete control, freedom and relief of stress like longboarding can. What, pray tell, you may reasonably ask, is longboarding? To the...
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Smack! Crunch! Thud-thud! Ah, the sounds of fall sports practices at Rappahannock County High School.
The Lady Panther varsity volleyball players are already smacking the white leather ball in serving and hitting drills. The football players' helmets are crunching in high-energy drills. And the footsteps of cross country runners are thudding past onlookers as they...
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Morgan Minyard, an Amissville resident and 2010 graduate of Highland School, recently completed the requirements to letter in equestrian sports through the United States Equestrian Federation’s (USEF) High School Equestrian Athletes program. Minyard has been participating in the new USEF program during her senior year. During this time she balanced her riding, showing and...
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Ooh, shiny. Well, not exactly shiny, but Rappahannock County’s school district is showing signs of life — with new superintendent Aldridge Boone, high school principal Robert Stump, athletic director Jamie Harris and football coach Terrence Johnson all starting work this month. At the school board level, the signs of a change could be summarized,...
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Energy. Enthusiasm. And an authentic smile that reveals contagious excitement. Coach Terrence Johnson, Rappahannock County High School's new head football coach, began his duties by holding a team meeting on Monday, July 19.
The first noticeable effect of the excitement: school officials say some 50 students have signed up for fall football this summer, more...
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Wakefield Country Day School in Huntly has two upcoming sports camps in addition to an equestrian camp. A premier soccer camp run by Wakefield Boys Middle School Soccer Coach Lavonne Adkins from July 26 to July 29 will be held at the school from 9 a.m. to noon. It’s open to boys and girls...
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Top basketmakers at the Culpeper-Madison-Rappahannock Farm Show; more work (and more play for you) at the Castleton Festival; local 12-and-under team heads to the state baseball tournament; and more.
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Summertime is not down time for RCHS athletics. Coaches are still training, and athletes are still collecting awards.
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The Rappahannock Monarchs have returned to the baseball field after the league didn't have enough teams for the 2009 season in the Apple Valley Baseball League.
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Amissville medics gain national recognition for 20-plus years of EMT-paramedic service; rugby players sought; forage and beef tour; local graduate and honors students.
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If that is true then Saturday's Eighth Annual Culpeper Soap Box Derby was a roaring success. The sweltering heat didn't stifle the cheers, whistles and shouts of encouragement emanating from the multitude of tents lining Blue Ridge Avenue. There was a sense of purpose as volunteers shuttled derby cars up and down the hill...
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It is the second largest soapbox derby in the world: one track, 135 drivers, three champions, and not one engine.
“It doesn’t have a motor, it runs on gravity,” Thom Pellikaan explains, describing the soapbox derby car that arrives on the doorstep of each driver as a kit to be assembled personally. “And all...
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The Wolpack U-13 rugby team started the season off strong with a 107-0 victory over Fort Hunt, Saturday in Alexandria.
“Everybody scored a try,” said head coach Greg Hicks. “D’montae (Noble) and Gregory (Hicks) tried to make sure everyone got a chance to score.”
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Rappahannock County High School athletes were treated to a star-studded annual spring athletic awards ceremony on Monday, June 7. The Panther players received honors, applause and accolades from their coaches and leaders.
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The Lady Panthers lose a hard-fought District semifinal to Madison, a Cal Ripkin League game goes 11 innings and is won by the Rappahannock Rage, and lots more.
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Rappahannock public schools yesterday offered the job of athletics/activities director to Jamie Harris, a physical education teacher who made an impressive debut in his first year coaching varsity wrestling and softball teams at the high school — an impression that continued into Wednesday’s District girls’ softball semifinal game (see related story at right). “The...
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“Keeping the momentum from our last two games was our goal,” Coach Jamie Harris said after the Rappahannock County High School Lady Panthers aced a first-round rematch with George Mason, 5-0, on the road Monday night Last night, after press time, they were to meet No. 1 seed Madison in a semi-final at the Mountaineers’...
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After a lengthy season that began in mid-March, the RCHS coed varsity track team earned plenty of bragging rights.
The team's final meet of the season was on May 12 at George Mason High School. Several Panthers came away with accolades and awards on Mustang turf.
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In a disappointing trio of games, Rappahannock County High School’s varsity baseball team lost last Thursday to Manassas Park, Friday to Clarke County and again to Manassas Park in the first District playoff on Monday.
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On Friday after school, 12- year-old Hunter Settle of Culpeper decided to go fishing with his grandfather Ray Coffey of Castleton in the Thornton River near Laurel Mills Store. Hunter was only catching little ones and was about to call it an evening when suddenly he got a nibble on his line and...
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Allison Russo graduates U.Va. summa cum laude || Mountain Laurel students backpack across Fort Valley || College-student offer at Rapp Fit Center, and more.
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In a rain-soaked week filled with cancellations, the Lady Panther softball team fell 7-6 to George Mason during a Friday night travel game. Mason opened with a 3-0 lead in the first inning, but Rapp battled back to take a 6-4 lead going into the sixth. Rain and lightning brought a thirty-minute delay. “When...
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Melissa Delcour reports on recent Rappahannock High School varsity baseball and girls softball games.
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Rappahannock County High School (RCHS) senior Austin Burnett was named Group A Male Athlete of the Year and was presented with the Allstate Foundation/Virginia High School League (VHSL) Achievement Award in Charlottesville Monday (May 10).
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The Rappahannock Junior Panther Boys Baseball team took the field for three games this season. Head coach L. B. Settle, an RCHS alumnus, and assistant coach Donald O'Meara led the boys to a 1-2 record.
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With more divergent storylines than a Shakespearean drama, the 2010 Virginia Gold Cup turned out one part Dick Francis mystery, one part “My Friend Flicka,” with a side order of The Keystone Cops.
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esides capturing the featured Gold Cup race, rider Paddy Young also scored Saturday with steeplethon winner The Whacker.
Young, riding for owner Robert Kinsley and champion trainer Tom Voss, said the second-season jumper was “a bit surprised” with the variety of fences he found on the unique course that combines timber, brush, a stone wall,...
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The RCHS varsity boys soccer team stands with a 5-3 overall record. Though more than half their season is completed, they have quite a few Bull Run District games yet to play. With an awareness of their challenges and an eye on the future, several of the players paused recently to reveal their Panther...
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The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has announced that Austin James Burnett is the recipient of the 2010 Pamplin Leader Award at Rappahannock County High School (RCHS). The Pamplin Leadership Scholarship is a one-year, $1,000 tuition scholarship to Virginia Tech. It is presented annually to a top student from each public high school...
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Even with the illnesses and injuries that Rappahannock County High School varsity girls soccer team has suffered this spring, head coach Will Kulick remains optimistic. “It’s some good players that we lost or got sick, and we’ve had to have girls play out of position,” he said. “But the girls can see that hard...
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In an intense week of play, the Varsity Panther Baseball Team posted a 2-1 home field win against Shenandoah Valley Christian Academy on April 22 and an 11-4 loss on an April 27 road trip to Clarke County. The SVCA Patriots heard the Panther battle cry last week. Coach Donald O’Meara said, “It was...
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The Rappahannock Hunt's Hunter Pace Races took place under bright sunny skies Saturday. The McNears of Gid Brown Hollow hosted the event.
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After a long bus trip to East Hardy, West Virginia, on April 14, the Lady Panthers fell to the Cougars, 7-4. The team followed that disappointment with a 10-0 loss to Strasburg on the Panthers’ home field April 16 and ended the play week with a huge, 21-5 victory over Manassas Park. At East...
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Warrenton Rugby Football Club (shown in red) has a playoff match this Saturday (April 24) at the Laurel Mills Polo Grounds against Roanoke. Kick-off is 1 p.m. — and is preceded by an under-19 Warrenton Wolfpack youth club match against Western Loudoun at 11 a.m. More at warrentonrugby.com.
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Go, Gavin, Go Gavin Jenkins, an 11-year- old Rappahannock County Elementary School fifth-grader, has a dream of becoming a professional automobile race driver, and this year he is on his way to accomplishing his dream. As a dirt track go-kart driver, Gavin won the Capital City Speedway Championship for his class at this, his...
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