Briar Woods Girls Win Swim Title

Boys and girls teams finish second in Dulles District Tournament.

The Briar Woods Girls Swim Team captured a 3rd Dulles District Regular Season title in 4 years, and both the boys and girls finished 2nd at the Dulles District Championships Monday for the second year running. During the regular, season the girls maintained a perfect record, going 11-0 and bringing their dual meet win streak to 36-0 dating back to the 2008-2009 season. The boys went 10-1 with their only loss coming to District Champion Potomac Falls. Both the boys and girls had some outstanding swims at the championship meet. Among them were the following top 3 finishes: A special congratulation to the following swimmers who will move on to the Region II and A/AA State Tourament: Girls: Boys: Thanks to Chuck Moore and Random Snaps …

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Courts and Ridges Swimmers Reach for the Wall

Ashburn teams compete as Old Dominion Swimming League season draws to a close.

Even though summer is still in full swing, the area youth swimming season is quickly coming to an end. Over the next few weeks, Ashburn Patch will be featuring action from the end of season meets. This week, Patch is highlighting photos from the Courts & Ridges Lightning, a neighborhood swim team and member of the Old Dominion Swim League (ODSL). The Lightning team goals are to improve the team members’ swimming skills, provide every member the experience of participating in the swim meets, and to have fun!  Thank you to Shirell Ashwell for supplying these great photos from this year's Lightning team. Anyone interested in learning more about the Lightning, should check out the team website at http://swimteam.courtsandridges.org/. If you …

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Dusty Smith

11:04 pm on Sunday, July 17, 2011

Thanks for the input, Mike. That's very helpful info.   more ›

Transition Triathlon Opens This Week

Loudoun's only triathlon specialty store opens in Leesburg.

About 100 yards from the Washington and Old Dominion (W&OD) Trail where an art studio used to be located sits a gold mine for local triathletes! Opening this week, Transition Triathlon will be the first triathlon store in Leesburg and the only triathlon store in Loudoun County! Husband and wife team Steve Makranczy and Alex Korab, Transition’s owners, are excited to be in the historic downtown area of Leesburg and even more excited to be close to the W&OD trail. Between mile markers 34 and 34.5, athletes are welcome to stop in and say “Hi,” have a cold drink, relax from their workout, “talk shop” and even sit and watch a race on TV in Transition’s athletes lounge. They want Transition to be a place where triathletes not only shop, but also…

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Briar Woods Swimmers Perform Well at States

The girls finish 3rd overall while the boys break several school records.

The Briar Woods girls swim team came home with a 3rd -place finish in the Virginia State Swimming Championships this past Friday and Saturday, well ahead of the boys’ 13th-place, but record-setting, finish. Competing against hundreds of the best swimmers the state has to offer, Briar Woods turned in some amazing performances and came away with numerous school records and top finishes.  On the girls’ side, all of Briar Woods’ swimmers had outstanding preliminaries Friday and reached the finals on Saturday. Alli Haufler led the way, capturing 3rd in the 200 Free and breaking a school record by more than 2 seconds, she then came back in the 100 Fly taking 2nd in the state. Kristin Haufler also had an outstanding meet, taking 6th in the 100 …

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Bulldogs' Swim Season Ends at Districts

Stone Bridge girls place seventh, boys finish eighth

UPDATE: After the diving competition, the Stone Bridge girls team fell to eighth place while Marshall pulled into seventh. Stone Bridge does not having a diving team. During the regular season, Stone Bridge won a dual meet against Marshall, so the Bulldogs were looking to finish ahead of the Statesmen in both the boys’ and girls’ ledgers at the Liberty District championship meet Saturday night in Annandale. The girls succeeded, behind senior Catherine (Dani) DeGooyer, who was just edged out for a spot in the Northern Region championship meet in her best event, the 100-yard backstroke. DeGooyer finished seventh, with a time of 1:03.17, just an arm’s-length short of extending her season. Swimmers must finish in sixth place or better to …

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