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October 13, 2017
VOTE FOR OUR TRAILS: Blue Ridge School's trails have been nominated in the Best Hiking, Best Running and Best Mountain Biking trails category of the 2017 Best of the Blue Ridge competition sponsored by Blue Ridge Outdoors. The deadline to cast your vote is October 31. Please vote
here, and click on destinations. To learn more about our trails, click
here.
PSAT:
The PSAT for 10th and 11th graders was administered at Blue Ridge on Wednesday, October 11.
The PSAT serves as the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test for the junior class. It also provides parents, students and the school with a diagnostic tool to see what your son needs to adjust and how to better support and help him in preparation for the SAT. It also offers him a glimpse of what the SAT will encompass and a baseline reference as to how he might score. While the sophomores and juniors were taking the PSAT, seniors worked with Mrs. Wilkins and Mr. Herring on their college applications.
COLLEGE COUNSELING:
Congratulations to Aaron O'Donnell, who was accepted to the
California University of Pennsylvania, and Alex Marchetti, who was accepted to Longwood University. Aaron and Alex are the first members of the Class of 2018 to receive acceptances. In other college news,
Wofford College visited this week.
ASTRONOMY FIELD TRIP:
On Thursday, October 12, Mr. Jamie Bourland's
Astronomy students
Jack Cline '18, Hanbo Jiang '18, Juan Mareco '18, Connor Modd 1'8, Khang Nguyen '18, Aaron O'Donnell '18, Juan Pitty '18, Rhys Rodriguez '18, Chris Rogers '19, Jaab Veskijkul '18, Allen Xiang '18, Harry Xue '18 and Jason Yu'18 visited the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library on the University of Virginia campus. For photos and more on this story, click here.
PIES FOR PUERTO RICO:
Members of the Student Council held a fundraiser for Puerto Rican relief efforts through a pie-in-the-face challenge. Pictures of various faculty members were attached to jars outside the auditorium. Students, faculty and staff placed an impressive $1,371 in the jars! Though Athletic Director Bryan Puckett was a late entry, his jar collected the most cash. Other winners were history and humanities teacher Vinton Bruton, English teacher/lacrosse coach Michael Herring and ELL teacher/JV lacrosse coach John Hetzel. For a video, click
here.
ATHLETICS:
On Tuesday, October 10, the varsity soccer team lost to
Randolph Macon in an away match.
The cross country team finished first out of seven teams in the New Covenant meet on Tuesday. Team results were as follows: BRS 54, VES 58, Hargrave 75, Peakland 85, New Covenant 116, Westover 139 and Carlisle 162.
Adam Maisano '19 was the second finisher overall as he ran the three miles in 18:13.4. Henri Vainola '18 was third with a time of 18:36.4, Dhruv Mehrotra '19 was fourth with a time of 18:37.7, Taku Endo '18 was fifteenth with a time of 20:11.8 and Xol Mike '20 came in thirtieth overall with a time of 22:14.2.
Other individual Blue Ridge results were Jason Yu '18 - 22:33.3; Zac Wood '20 - 22:35.2; Paul Du '19 - 22:36.5; Jack Lutzker '20 - 22:52.3; Hibiki Sakurai '21 - 23:08.0; Simon Buras '19 - 23:56.0; Kevin Li '21 -- 24:51.1; Jimmy Yang '20 - 25:33.1; Will Lowry '19 - 27:26.7; Joe Qin '20 - 29:08.6; Cole Kennedy '21 - 29:33.6; Mike Han '20 - 29:48.1; Kai Liang'21 - 32:28.7 and Harry Jiang '18 - 32:29.7.
The varsity football team volunteered at the local Red Cross to do community service
on Thursday, October 12.
The projects included taking inventory of the shelter's trailers (used during disaster situations), making comfort kits (personal care items given to disaster clients), and raking leaves. Our student athletes moved items such as cots into the trailers as well. The team has its second home game tomorrow, hosting Randolph Macon at 2PM. The game will be live-streamed here.
The varsity basketball team traveled to Richmond on Saturday, October 7, and won all three games in the JUKO Prep Jamboree.
HOSTING AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT:
Please consider hosting an international student over our upcoming Thanksgiving, Christmas and/or Spring breaks. Read about one Blue Ridge family's hosting experience
here.
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