For years, Arlington was somewhat unique for high school academic athletes to participate in two sports during the same season.
One year, during the winter campaign, Ari Molina from Yorktown High won a Liberty District Championship in Arlington in the early evening.
An hour later and kilometers at George Mason University, after a frantic car trip in which he changed uniforms and arrived with only a few seconds to lose, Molina finished second in a race at the state swimming championships – without practically no warm -up.
Molina was then presented in the Faces of the Illustrated Sports in the crowd section for this realization.
During the fall for a year, an athlete for the Washington-Liberty High School (then known as Washington-Lee) ran in the female cross-country championships at the end of the afternoon in Burke Lake Park in Fairfax County. At 7 p.m., she was back in Arlington by playing for WL in a championship match on the field of the district tournament.
“I had several (players) to do several sports,” said Beth Prange, who led to several sports for WL, including hockey on the field, before retiring recently.
Yorktown The star of the graduate and football Max Milien played for the buttocks team from the school a spring while making sprints and participating in jumps for the outdoor boys team during the same season.
This winter season on the same day and the same night, Emmett Engelhardt ran in a racing team of athletics team in the athletics room in playoffs for the Washington-Liberty team. Then in the evening, he played in a match and a key role for the WL Boys basketball team, scoring four points with a key flight.
The examples of this multi-sport tradition of Arlington in the three seasons continued for years at the four high schools.
Logistics must be agreed and developed between athletes and coaches. In general, the concept has been encouraged by the various directors of school students over the years.
This fall last, Bishop O’Connell Sadie Smith of the school ran for the female cross-country team in certain races and also played a big role for the knight’s women’s football team.
A few years ago, Natalie Anderson was a butt of spring girls and an athletics athlete for O’Connell.
“You need a single type of athlete to do so. They must be extremely workers, concentrated and organized, “said background and athletics coach O’Connell, Jim Connor. “This tends to function if all agree on the situation.”
This winter, Wakefield High’s Madeleine Wear was a championship gymnast for the women’s team and also participated in events for the Girls track and field team.
This spring, Kaiya Ovando from Yorktown will launch the weight throwing and the disc for the women’s athletics team in the open air, while starting for the Softball of Yorktown’s softball team when she plays.
Olivia Stafford of Yorktown will once again be an out -of -competition female butt player and could arise in certain athletics races.
“If everything can be developed, why not?” It’s a good thing, “said Cross-Country and Athletics coach of Washington-Liberty, John Bacon.
