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THIS WEEK AT BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL
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April 7, 2017
The Parent Association gave these wonderful totes to each teacher and staff member this week!
PARENT WEEKEND: The Spring Parent Weekend opened with the traditional senior awards presented to the seniors' favorite teachers. A number of parents then accompanied their sons to their morning classes. After lunch, Jonkai Brown was accompanied by many of his teammates as he signed to play football at Robe
rt Morris University. After Friday's athletic events were cancelled due to inclement weather, parents, faculty and students were treated to a lovely musical performance in the auditorium that afternoon. (For a video of this performance, click
here
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A reception for parents at the student art show wrapped up the evening. Parent-teacher conferences were held throughout the weekend.
 On Saturday, parents learned about the state of the School from Headmaster Trip Darrin, Associate Headmaster Kevin Miller and Associate Headmaster Franklin Daniels. Each shared many of the remarkable student achievements thus far this year.
 RIDE THE RIDGE: On Saturday, April 1, seventy-five mountain bikers, including the Blue Ridge Mountain Bike team, competed in the annual Ride the Ridge race. The trail covers 7-1/2 miles of rigorous mountain biking trails. Experts rode three loops, intermediate riders rode the trail twice and the junior category covered it once. Bryce Aylor '19 won third place in the junior category. Faculty members Brandon Deane, Emily Guy, Wayne Peterson and David Welty assisted race directors Tony Brown and Cory Woods. In addition to Bryce, BRS Mountain Bike team members are
Jared Brown '17
, Spencer Cook '17, Tony Jin '20, Andrew Jorgensen '20, Kellam Lloyd '20, Selby Morgan '19, Ro Ro Rymer '17 and InYong Song '18. For photos by Alex Marchetti, click here.
 HONORING 15 YEARS OF SERVICE: On Wednesday, April 5, Headmaster Trip Darrin honored Mrs. Marcia Kozloski and Ms. Stacy Aylor for their fifteen years of service to the School. Mrs. Kozloski is the department head of the Foreign Languages Department and teaches Spanish and Portuguese. Ms. Aylor is the accounting manager. Her son Bryce is a sophomore at the School.
BLOOD DRIVE: On Wednesday, April 5, members of the National Honor Society sponsored a blood drive with Virginia Blood. Jon Baker is the faculty advisor and the members are Albert Che '17, Connor Modd '18, Dennis Dai '17, InYong Song '18, Franck Germain '18, Jaab Veskijkul '18, Jared Brown '17, Allen Xiang '18, George Shashy '18 and Harry Jiang '18. Twenty-nine volunteers participated.
COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES: Congratulations to Babacar Diagne on his acceptance to Lynchburg College!
An SAT prep class sponsored by Blue Ridge High School and taught by a Kaplan Test Prep Expert will be offered from 1-4:30PM, on Sunday afternoons and 6:30-9:30PM on Monday and Wednesday evenings from April 09 - May 03, 2017. To enroll, please call 1-800-527-8378 (select option 4, followed by option 2) or go to
kaplanatschool.com/blueridge. There is an early bird pricing sale until March 26.
 ATHLETICS:
Clemson commit Aamir Simms '17 was named Central Virginia's Player of the Year, and Coach Cade Lemcke was named Central Virginia's Coach of the Year by the Daily Progress on its C'ville Varsity website. For more on this story, click here.
On Saturday, April 1, the track team traveled to VES to compete in a four-school meet. Blue Ridge scored an impressive 76 points to take the overall victory. On Tuesday, April 4, the Baron track team took second in another four-school meet at Woodberry Forest.
On Monday, April 3,
the golf team hosted Eastern Mennonite. Even though they lost the match, they scored a season-best 180. The Thursday match at Holy Cross was canceled due to weather.
On Monday, April 3, the varsity lacrosse team lost a close match to Bishop O'Connell 11-8 but bounced back impressively in a 21-9 win over FUMA on Wednesday, April 5. The team hosts Collegiate today at 4:30PM. Subscribe to our YouTube live-stream channel to receive updates when games go live.
 On Tuesday, April 4, the varsity tennis team played at Miller and came away with a dominating 9-0 sweep. On that same day, the baseball team hosted North Cross and won 13-3 in six innings. On Wednesday, April 5, the baseball team was not quite so fortunate as they suffered an 8-2 loss to Fuqua. The team is now 4-4 on the season.
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April 13-17
April 22
Frye Field Dedication, 11:30AM
April 22-25
Character Ed Trips
May 26
Baccalaureate
Gibson Memorial Chapel, 4:30PM
May 27
Commencement
On the Lawn, 9:30AM
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