SHEPHERDSTOWN — If you were sitting in the sun-bleached stands at Spring Mills High, waiting for a Jefferson athlete or relay team to gain some needed points in the Class AAA, Region 2 track and field meet last Friday, you didn’t have to do much more than stare down at the all-weather track ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — If a coach is young and filled with ideas and energy in equal doses, he might prefer to surround himself with tender-aged athletes whose enthusiasm and work-all-day attitudes mirror his personality. If the track and field coach is a little long in the tooth and has heard his ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — When at Jefferson High School, Dylan McCartney was the perfect player to coach. His ego couldn’t even be found with a microscope. He just wanted to play wherever he was needed and to please everybody he saw. As a defensive catcher, he had few peers. His fundamentals were ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — When the spring days bring warmer weather, thoughts can turn to the few seconds that often determine the winners of sprints and relays . . . or the heights and distances soared to or jumped in the field events. The athletes are no longer huddled under blankets and bundled ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — As per usual in the last calendar year, the unknowns have outnumbered the knowns. Postponements, cancellations, weather-related changes and, of course, the plague of the coronavirus pandemic. Per usual. The new world of changing athletic schedules has almost become ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Over the mountains. Through the woods. To the Charleston Civic Center for the Class AAAA boys state basketball tournament goes the Jefferson High boys team. Dodging the coronavirus at every turn, Jefferson dispatched both Washington and Musselman in its Sectional tournament ...
