May 14, 2017

 

This week began with an unexpected (and much appreciated) Headmaster's Day on Monday!

 

BIRTHDAY TREATS:

 

PARENT AUCTION: The online Parent Association auction is live here.

Your continued support helps the PA provide so much more for your son's experience at BRS!

 

For more information on the Father/Son Weekend, click here . 

 

COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE: Congratulations to Phil Peng on his acceptance to the University of Vermont.

 

TRUSTEE CHALLENGE: The Board of Trustees has announced a dollar-for- dollar Annual Fund challenge for Blue Ridge School alumni, parents, grandparents and friends. During the month of May, the Board of Trustees will match new cash commitments up to a total of $15,000. Thus, every $1 you give is doubled! For more on this challenge, click here. 

 

APPRECIATION:  In recognition of Teacher and Nurses Appreciation weeks, both faculty members and the School nurses were honored in several ways by the students and parents.

 

AWARD:  Joseph Kim '17 recently won the Southern Teachers Agency's art contest.  His drawing will be featured in their upcoming calendar.

 

FIELD TRIPS: Mr. Bruton's junior Humanities students Ryan Amer, Spencer Cadieux , Jack Cline , Ty Ewen , Franck Germain , Juan Mareco , Connor Modd , Rhys Rodriguez , Alex Tembo and KT Tlelima visited the Fredericksburg National Military Park this week.  This is the site of the December 1862 battle in which Lee's Army of Northern Virginia defeated Burnside's Union Army of the Potomac. When Lincoln promoted Burnside to command the Union's largest army, Burnside protested that he was not qualified for the job. He proved it at Fredericksburg where Lee inflicted about 13,000 casualties on the Union army at a price of 5,000 Confederate casualties as he thwarted the Union's third major offensive into Virginia.

 

The Reverend Anne West's Humanities students Tony Jin, Juno Park, Joe Qin, Jimmy Yang and Ben Zhou toured the National Cathedral this week.

 

ATHLETICS:

The baseball team lost to Hargrave 9-3 on Tuesday, ending their season 7-7.

 

The varsity tennis squad beat Eastern Mennonite 7-1 on Monday and moved on to the VIC semi-finals at Covenant on Wednesday, a match that ended its successful season with a record of 6-5. 

 

VIC CHAMPIONS:

VIC Champions First Time in School History:

The track team hosted the VIC Championship meet on Saturday, May 13, during which the squad was named VIC champions for the first time in School history.  Blue Ridge runner, throwers and jumpers earned 160 points as they took the conference victory over Eastern Mennonite, Hargrave Military, VES, Fishburne Military and Roanoke Catholic.  For photos, click  here. 

T he  BRS track team won its last three regular-season track meets of the season. The squad first bested William Monroe, George Mason and Rappahannock County. On Saturday, May 6, the team then beat EMHS, Fishburne, Hargrave and VES during which KT Tlelima '18 long-jumped a personal best 38' 9".  On Tuesday, May 9, the team beat Benedictine and Trinity Episcopal. First place finishers in this meet were Aaron Aldridge '17, Josh Colon '17, Taku Endo '18, Elijah Gordon '19, Darius McGhee '17 and Jahlil Puryear '17. 

The varsity lacrosse team beat Hargrave on Monday in the VIC semi-finals with a score of 18-17.  The squad then hosted North Cross in the VIC Championship game on Wednesday.  A quick start ultimately led to a resounding 18-6 win. The team finished the year undefeated in the conference! Connor Coleman '17, Justin Armwood '17, Shane Ford '18 and Ty Ewen '18 were named 1st Team All-VIC.  Marcus Valeiras '17 ad Rhys Rodriguez '18 were named to the 2nd Team All-VIC team.  Ty was also named the Conference Lacrosse Player of the Year. 

 

Here is the Daily Progress story on our VIC title.

For the ScrimmagePlay article on the semi-final victory, click here  and the final VIC game, click here.