The mother of a field hockey player is home with a bad cold, the longtime supporter of Quince Orchard sports is away on a business trip, and the quarterback of the 1996 football team now lives in Florida. What do…
This season for QO girls’ varsity soccer has so far lived up to the team’s high expectations. The Cougars are 8-1 and Division champions. The Cougars came into the season after losing in the regional finals the year before to…
Quince Orchard High School inaugurated its new athletic hall of fame during the weekend of Oct. 4-5 with a series of events honoring 23 former student-athletes, coaches, administrators and community members and inducting them into the hall. The first-ever class…
Seventeen seconds. For 17 seconds last Friday night, the Quince Orchard football team was behind in a game for the first time this season, as upstart Richard Montgomery scored on the game’s initial possession and took a 7-0 first quarter…
The defending state champion Quince Orchard football team has reached the point in their season where their toughest competition is with themselves and the goal of each game is not just winning, but also getting better. After winning their last…
There isn’t a soccer player who doesn’t dream of notching the game-winning goal—it’s only natural to want the glory of scoring, second-year Washington Spirit goalkeeper Aubrey Bledsoe said. She would know; as a young soccer player Bledsoe was so good…
In a big game between big rivals whose big men received the biggest pregame attention, it was two of the littlest guys on the field who made the biggest plays for Quince Orchard in their 21-7 victory over Damascus in…
For two years, current Quince Orchard High School junior Sophia Oristian was the lone girl on the Cougars’ coed golf team. In fact, until Oristian’s arrival in 2017, only one girl had ever made it into the starting lineup for…
It’s a different atmosphere around the Cougar Dome this year as the Quince Orchard football Cougars prepare to defend their Maryland 4A state championship. Gone are the hunger and frustration of a team twice defeated in the state final in…
For many young, football-playing boys in the Washington, D.C., area, growing up to play for the hometown Washington Redskins is a childhood dream. But for Andrew Ankrah, the Quince Orchard High School alum now trying to make the Redskins as…