RISE AGAINST HUNGER:
Students, faculty and other members of the Blue Ridge School community, led by our Student Council, gave their Saturday morning, January 6, to assembling 10,000 meals for Rise Against Hunger (RAH).
Rise Against Hunger is an organization that is trying to end world hunger in our lifetime. Over the years, we have sacrificed by not having any dessert for a week and having one simple soup meal. The money saved on food was used to help pay for the program. For more on this story, click here.
NEW YORK BALL: Parents are invited to attend the New York Auxiliary's Blue & White Ball in NYC on January 27, 2018.
For tickets, click
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For a history of the ball, click
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UVA MOCK TRIALS:
Senior history students attended the Great American Mock Trial Invitational (GAMTI) at the University of Virginia's School of Law on Wednesday, January 10. Twenty universities participated in the competition. Our seniors joined students from three other area high schools to serve as members of juries. For more on this story, click here.
COLLEGE COUNSELING: Congratulations to Alex Pratt and Juan Pitty for their acceptances to Lasell College and St. Edward's University respectively.
ARMY COMBINE: Michael Asher '20, Aden Britton '20 and Myles Ham '19 participated in the National Army Combine in San Antonio, Texas, last week. Six hundred of the nation's top high school football underclassmen gathered in San Antonio for the Combine at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. For more on this story, click
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ATHLETICS:
On Saturday, January 6, Blue Ridge School's indoor track team competed in an invitational at Fork Union Military Academy. Other teams participating were Caroline High, Culpepper County, Fluvanna County, Fork Union, Louisa County, Monticello, Potomac Senior High, The Potomac School and Wilson Memorial.
BRS' 4x200 relay team of Taku Endo '18, Joseph Whelan '20, Cam Kewley '20 and Christian Guttilla '19 came in 9th with a time of 1:51.8. Katiso Tlelima '18 came in 10th in the triple jump with a leap of 36-07.5.
Other individual results:
Long Jump: Katiso '18 - 15-06.5
Shot: Katiso '18 - 26-11, Bryce Aylor '19 - 26-06, Christian Guttilla '19 - 24-10.5
55 Meter Dash: Cam Kewley '20 - 7.51, Joseph Whelan '20 - 8.09, Chris Richmond '18 - 8.19
1600: Tony Jin '20 - 6:01.11
1000: Yilin Kong '18 - 3:24.4
300: Joe Qin '20 - 54.21
3200: Justin Hu '19 - 14:06.31
The wrestling team competed at the VIC Quads held at Fishburne Military Academy on Tuesday, January 9. Coach Mehl reports the young team did well in their first match. "It was a good learning experience for the wrestlers."
Also on Tuesday, the varsity basketball team traveled to Middleburg Academy and won
89-83.
The Squire basketball squad hosted Tandem Friends' JV team and lost 45-35.
On Thursday, January 11, indoor soccer players traveled to Richmond where the B team lost to Collegiate's B team, 2-1.
Both the JV and varsity basketball teams chalked up home victories (58-26 and 51-40) on Thursday over Virginia Episcopal School.
YEARBOOK PORTRAITS: TSS Photography will be on campus on Wednesday, January 17, to take the winter team photos. Please contact John Hetzel (jhetzel@blueridgeschool) or call 434-992-0509 to schedule an individual sports photo of your son in uniform or to have your son's portrait retaken. All new students who arrived since the yearbook photos were taken this fall will also have their portraits taken on Wednesday, January 17.
