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October 20, 2017
HOMECOMING:
Blue Ridge School's 2017 Alumni Weekend took place on October 13 and 14. The weekend began with the 27th annual Alumni Golf Tournament and included a campus tour,
BAC dedication
and a victorious football game. For more on this story, click here.
BACON HOLLER:
On Saturday, October 14, 2017, the Blue Ridge School hosted the
Bacon Holler race which is comprised of multiple events. The mountain bike and outdoor program athletes participated. Tony Jin '20 completed the expert level while Cruz Mike '20 finished first over all BRS students in the Run+Bike+Run. For more on this story, click here.
UNITED WAY DINNER:
On Sunday, October 15, several Blue Ridge students were invited to attend the first United Way Thomas Jefferson Area's community dinner held at Jefferson School in Charlottesville. The meal was organized to bring together a variety of community members to share a meal and conversation.
Aboulaye Camara '18, Juan Mareco '18, Juan Pitty '18, Jack Cline '18, Tyler Wills '18, Alex Tembo '18, Katiso Tlelima '18, Franck Germain '18, Myles Jones '18, Myles Ham '19, Darius McGhee '18, Yuto Hiraki '20 and Hibiki Sakurai '21 attended. The boys stayed after to help clean up and load tables and chairs for the United Way volunteers. For photos click here.
COLLEGE COUNSELING: Congratulations to senior Jacob Douvres on his acceptance to Bridgewater College.
On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, a representative from Dickinson College's admission office spoke to Jose Ripoll and Zain Bankwalla
, and on Thursday, October 19 a rep from Virginia Commonwealth University visited BRS and spoke to a number of seniors.
On Wednesday at 7:00 PM, Mrs. Wilkins took a group to Charlottesville for a Yale University Information Session.
Football beat Randolph Macon Academy 47-0 in the 2017 homecoming game! Click here for the Baron Sports Network's highlights of Saturday's game. For photos, click
here
.
On Tuesday, October 17, Varsity Soccer traveled to John Paul the Great for a match.
Cross Country traveled to Fisburne for a meet. BRS was third out of twelve schools. Adam Maisano was first for BRS with a time of 17:49.
Individual results:
Adam Maisano - 17:49
Dhruv Mehrotra - 18:30
Taku Endo - 19:09
Xol Mike - 20:56
Jack Lutzker - 21:19
Paul Du - 21:38
Jason Yu - 21:53
Zac Wood - 22:07
Hibiki Sakurai - 23:02
Simon Buras - 23:57
Christian Joskowiak - 25:51
Joe Qin - 25:58
Howard Jiang - 26:53
Jimmy Yang - 28:19
Kai Liang - 29:39
Harry Jiang - 29:57
Cole Kennedy - 30:29
Nathan Santos - 30:58
Jimmy Li - 31:45
Mike Han - 32:11
Junfeng Liu - 32:38
On Friday October 20th
JV Soccer traveled to VES for a match
HOSTING AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT:
Please consider hosting an international student over our upcoming Thanksgiving, Christmas and/or Spring breaks.
Please contact Mrs. Krystle Gee at
kgee@blueridgeschool.com
if you have any questions or would like to host a student.
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
.
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