Bishop Ireton High School | Archive | May, 2015

On Saturday, 16 May 15, seventeen BI Men’s Lacrosse Alumni returned to Fannon Field to watch and participate in the 6^th Annual Chris Delaware Memorial Alumni vs. Varsity Lacrosse game.

Returning coaches included BI’s first Men’s Lax coach, Francisco Calabrese (1980-81) and Joey Kestermann (2005-09). Returning players included Kevin Abbed (14), Will Chastain (13), Jerome Dacurawat (14), Nick Delaware (02), Stephen Gerke (14), Tommy Kestermann (10), Martin Klunder (14), Brian O’Donnell (08), Chris Petroff (09), Joe Ready (14), Brendan Reilly (08), Casey Shannon (08), Tommy Skelly (08) Phil Thomas (14) and Tyler Zimmer (03). They were supported by many enthusiastic Alumni Parents in the stands.

Alumni parent Bill Gerke took some great pictures of the game. Please go to  https://www.flickr.com/gp/97227969@N07/87Jp5E to view them.

Before the game, six rising BI Freshmen joined members of the BI JV and Varsity teams to run through some drills, review wall ball work and discuss summer camps and training. Varsity Head Coach Brandon Rose welcomed parents and student athletes to BI and the Men’s Lacrosse program. Many other rising frosh were unable to attend because of youth lax games.

After the game, Coach Calabrese spoke to all the players, noting how the game and the program had changed. Coach Mike Blaine took a few minutes to remember Chris Delaware. Chris was a great friend, athlete and lacrosse player at BI and Lynchburg College. After graduating from Lynchburg, Chris returned to BI with Joey Kestermann to coach lacrosse until his sudden death. Chris was a great Coach and role model. He had a positive influence over everyone he met. He is greatly missed!

The BI Alumni office and current BI Men’s lax parents hosted a delicious tailgate in the Resource Center after the game.

The 7^th Annual Chris Delaware Memorial Alumni vs Varsity Lacrosse game is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, 21 May 16. Start time to be determined. Please save the date and plan to join us next year.

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Bishop Ireton’s award-winning athletes, coaches and scholarship winners posed together following the ASC banquet. Winners from left to right, back row, Ben Gorski, Ryan Scott, Drew Smith, Nick Ducceschi, Evan Feree, Brandon Hutchinson, Coach Rick Sofield. Front row, left to right, Maggie Lohrer, Alex Stipano, & Lilly Weber.

Bishop Ireton saw a number of Cardinal athletes, a coach, and even parents honored at the 60th annual Alexandria Sportsman’s Club Awards Banquet May 19th at the Westin Hotel in Alexandria.  US Senator Angus S. King of Maine, but an Alexandria native, was the guest  of honor at annual awards gala.

Senator King entertained the crowd of nearly 300 from the four city high schools, TC Williams, Episcopal, St Stephens & St Agnes as well as Bishop Ireton, as well as a parks and recreation youth athlete,  with fond memories of his high school football days in Alexandria as well the important life lessons he gained for his experiences in athletics. He particularly noted the strong bonds of life-long friendships he made on the football field, reciting from memory the starting lineup of his football team and recalling the scores of many of the games.

Bishop Ireton alumnus Ryan Fannon again served as the master of ceremonies and moved the evening through more than 25 individual awards, chapter honors, and a wrap up with the four scholarship winners the Club presented, three of whom were Bishop Ireton Cardinals.

Notre Dame-bound swimmer senior Ben Gorski received the male swimmer of the year award. The second team, all Met senior won a state championship and swam on a school record-setting relay team to pace the Cardinals to another impressive season in the pool.  Likewise, first team all-Met soccer player Nick Ducceschi was honored as the male soccer player of the year. The future James Madison Duke was also a first team, all WCAC selection for the Cardinals.

Lilly Weber picked up the female honors for soccer as well. Another first team, all WCAC performer, the speedy junior led the Cardinals in a number of offensive categories and has committed to play at Virginia Tech when she graduates in 2016.   Maggie Lohrer was honored as the women’s cross country runner of the year. The athletic junior is also a mainstay on the state champion lacrosse team, but blistered the city course in the fall to win the Alexandria individual title at Episcopal last fall as well as placing in the top of a number of meets throughout the season.

Stephanie Cabrera, a senior who is headed to Marymount to play volleyball for Saints in August, was selected as the volleyball player of the year.  Despite injuries that sidelined her for a portion of the fall campaign, she led the Cardinals in a number of statistical categories and was named to the all conference  teams.

A pair of football players were honored. Senior Drew Smith was named the city’s football player of the year.  Smith rewrote the record book for receptions and yardage in his senior campaign, helping the Cardinals to an 8-4 record and a state championship appearance at Benedictine. The fleet footed receiver will head to Villanova in the fall.

Teammate Ryan Scott played four varsity sports with exceptional skill, but was honored as the city’s ice hockey player of the year.  Not only a receiver on the football team, Scott was part of the school-record setting relay team in the pool while also leading the Cardinals on the frozen water in goals scored. He represented Ireton at the NVSHL all star game before finishing his senior year as a first team, all-WCAC baseball player.

Bishop Ireton’s Rick Sofield was named the city’s co-coach of the year with TC Williams’ boys’ soccer coach, Marty Nickley.  Sofield led the Cardinals’ girls lacrosse team to a 20-3 season, losing a pair of one goal decisions while defeating more than half a dozen top 20 teams in the country. While his Cardinals couldn’t repeat as WCAC champions, they did rebound to hand the Washington Post’s top-ranked and previously undefeated St Stephens & St Agnes their only setback in a 28-1 season when the Cardinals successfully defended their VISAA state championship at Randolph Macon College on May 16th.

The Sportsman’s Club annually awards a “sportsman of the year” at the banquet and this year honored  two.  John and Silke Duke, parents of junior Alex Duke, were surprised with the honor for their collaborative efforts with the Club’s  membership, nearly tripling membership in their year’s tenure as chairman.

Each spring the Club also presents college scholarships to essay winners.  This year, again with the financial support of Marion Moon whose contributions memorialize her son, Rick Mann Moon, the Club made four scholarship awards, three of which went to Bishop Ireton seniors.   First team, all WCAC basketball player, Alexandra Stipano and a pair of rowers, Evan Ferree and Brandon Hutchinson were all awarded $2500 college scholarships for their essays on the impact of athletics on their high school experience.

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May 15, 16 saw the Bishop Ireton rowers hit the road for the first of two national level regattas held in Philadelphia area.  First, the team competed in the Stotesbury Regatta in Philadelphia (the world’s largest high school regatta) where the Men’s Varsity 4 finished in 15th place (out of 60 boats) overall. The Women’s Varsity 4 finished in 16th place overall in a field of 57 boats. The Cardinals’  women’s double as well as the women’s novice quad rowed hard, but did not advance to the semi-finals.

Bishop Ireton rowed in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, May 22, 23  at the Scholastic Rowing Association of America (SRAA) National Regatta where both the men’s and women’s Varsity 4 boats competed hard. They both were behind in their opening heats in fifth place and then finished strong in the last five hundred meters to come in third.

This sent them to the repechage round instead of going straight to semi-finals. In their repechage heat for the women, they ended up in a very tight race pulling very hard at the end to finish first. The men’s boat also was in a tight race and ended second in a close finish. The two boats then advanced to semi-finals where they fell short and did not advance to finals. The women’s boat finished 18th overall and the men’s boat finished 17th overall. Bishop Ireton made a good, strong showing after a season filled with adversity.

We are very proud of our entire team and look forward to a strong group of men and women returning to BI Crew next year!

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Senior Danielle Hatchett, front, is joined by Dr. Tom Curry, Head of School, mother Stacy Hatchett, second from left, and family for admissions ceremony at Bishop Ireton. Danielle will play basketball for the Shock of Washington Adventist next season.

Stephanie Cabrera (front, left) is surrounded by family and Head of School, Dr Tom Curry (back, left) as she completes her admissions paperwork to Marymount University.

Seniors Stpehanie Cabrera, left, and Danielle Hatchett, right, celebrate their decisions to continue competing, at the college level next year, at ceremonies at Bishop Ireton recently. Cabrera heads to Marymount for volleyball, while Hatchett will play basketball at Washington Adventist.

A pair of graduating Bishop Ireton athletes will be heading to the bright lights of college athletics this fall as Danielle Hatchett and Stephanie Cabrera agreed to play at their future colleges recently.

Hatchett, a Cardinal basketball player, will head to Washington Adventist University in Takoma Park to play for Coach Jered Lyons and the WAU Shock.   Hatchett played three varsity basketball seasons for Bishop Ireton as a guard.  The Upper Marlboro, Maryland, resident will have a chance to make an immediate impact for the 6-21 Shock and plans to bring the same energy to her new team as she did the Cardinals. She is the daughter of Stacy Hatchett .

Stephanie Cabrera will head to Arlington to play volleyball for head coach Beth Ann Wilson and the Saints.  She joins sister, Ashley, and former Cardinal teammate, Emileigh Rettig, on a team that won a school-record 25 games last fall.

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Coach of the Year Rick Sofield (right) high fives his daughter, Charlotte (15), named the VISAA’s player of the year Monday. It was Coach Sofield’s second coach of the year award, but the UNC-bound Charlotte was the state’s player of the year for the first time.

Bishop Ireton landed 6 players on the VISAA Division I all state teams and had a father-daughter coup of sorts when Coach Rick Sofield was selected as the coach of the year for the second consecutive year and UNC-bound daughter, Charlotte, earned player of the year honors.

Joining Sofield on the first team was senior Kaitlin Luzik, junior Kelly Larkin, and sophomore Kayla Duperrouzel.  Boston University’s Kelly Mathews was selected for second team honors as was junior defenseman Maggie Lohrer.

The two finalists dominated the all state selections, St Stephens & St Agnes garnering 4 first team, 1 second team selectees, while the Cardinals placed four on the first squad and two on the second.  Twelve schools in all placed one or more players on the elite lists.

For Coach Sofield, it was his second consecutive selection for the distinguished recognition. His 2014 team won both the WCAC and VISAA titles. His 2015 squad was upset in the WCAC semifinals but upended the Saints for the second year in a row, spoiling a perfect season to end 28-1. The Cardinals ended their campaign at 20-3.

The complete list is below:

Division I, First Team:

Charlotte Sofield, Player of the Year,   Bishop Ireton

Ellie Majure,  St Stephens & St Agnes

Ellie Carson, St Stephens & St Agnes

Kaitlin Luzik, Bishop Ireton

Julia Haney, St Anne’s Belfield

Campbell Brewer, Collegiate

Kelly Larkin, Bishop Ireton

Lizzy Schwien, Flint Hill

Sheila Rietano, Potomac School

Katherine Golladay, Trinity Episcopal

Kendall Swenson, St Stephens & St Agnes

Audrey Schreck, St Anne’s Belfield

Zoe Belodeau, St Stephens & St Agnes

Shannon Cross, Bishop O’Connell

Annie Cory, St Anne’s Belfield

Kayla Duperrouzel, Bishop Ireton

Division I, Second Team:

Haley Tucker, St Catherine’s

Hannah Kurisky, Paul VI

Kelly Mathews, Bishop Ireton

Meredith Hughes, Trinity Episcopal

Caroline Wiseman, St Stephens & St Agnes

Jordan Marcus, Collegiate

Sarah Jones, Episcopal

Courtney Byler, Norfolk Academy

Erin Scherrer, Cape Henry

Maggie Lohrer, Bishop Ireton

Mariel Cardenas, Bishop O’Connell

Grace Marshall, Norfolk Academy

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Villanova-bound Drew Smith anchors Bishop Ireton’s 4×400 meter relay to a 5th place finish at WCAC championships on May 17th at Good Counsel.

After a rough winter season that never wanted to end, Bishop Ireton’s track and field team finally got on the track and has been racing ever since.  The team closed the spring season Saturday at the 2015 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference’s Track and Field Championships at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Maryland.

The DeMatha Stags claimed the boys’ title, edging second place St Johns and for the 8th consecutive year, Elizabeth Seton raced away to a lopsided win on the girls’ side of the meet.

Thomas Ward recorded a top 1o finish for the Cardinal guys in the 3200 meter event. Ward covered the distance on a hot, sunny afternoon in a time of 10:40.65.  Joe Siedlarz earned a 6th place finish for Ireton in the discus with a toss of 104 feet, 9 inches.   The relay team of Sam Smith, Josh Ammon, Drew Smith and Perris Jones earned a 5th place in the 4×100 in a time of :45.65.

The girls again saw the distance runners shine. Freshman Laura Mueller ran a 12:57.60 in the 3200 to earn a 6th place finish while Isabelle Wilcox was 4th in the 1600 event with a time of 5:31.67 and 10th in the 800 meters in a time of 2:31.59.

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It’s all smiles for the Cardinals after stopping undefeated St Stephens 12-10 for the second year in a row to win the VISAA Division I lacrosse championship in Ashland, Virginia.

Bishop Ireton made it two in a row, topping previously undefeated and top-ranked St Stephens/St Agnes 12-10 Saturday to win the VISAA Division I state championship.

Ireton bolted to a 5-0 lead early, behind a pair of goals from Kelly Larkin and Charlotte Sofield, and one from Kayla Marshall,  then watched the advantage melt in the second half as the Saints rode a series of free position shots, including the first four by Ellie Carson to tie the game at 9-9 when Ellie Majure scored for St Stephens/St Agnes.

After a Cardinal time out, senior Kelly Larkin gave the Cardinals the lead and the Cardinals extended it to 11-9 moments later. Saints drew within one a Majure tally before the Ireton regained the two goal margin and won the final draw of the game and possessed the ball for the game’s final 4 minutes.

Kayla Duperrouzel was one of the unsung heroines of the game, winning key draws early setting up the fast start by Ireton, then winning key draws late to steal the momentum back from the top-ranked Saints.

Cardinals end the season 21-3 while the Saints taste defeat for the first time since they lost to Ireton last year in the state finals, and end 28-1.

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Isabelle Wilcox cruising to her first win in the 800 meters at Catholic State meet Saturday at John Paul the Great High School.

Bishop Ireton’s boys and girls track & field teams competed in the Virginia Catholic State championships at St John Paul the Great Saturday. The girls earned a 4th place finish with three champions while the boys were 7th.  St John Paul the Great won both the boys and girls titles handily on their home track.

Isabelle Wilcox claimed both the 800 meters and 1600 meter races and teammate Laura Mueller won the 3200 meter event to pace the Cardinal girls. Senior UNC-bound lacrosse player, Charlotte Sofield, ran in the 200 meter dash, and earned a 4th place finish in her first competition.

Thomas Ward snared the bronze medal for the boys’ 3200 and Josh Ammon was a third place finisher in the 110 meter high hurdles.  Brothers Sam and Drew Smith joined Will Barth and Josh Estevez for a third place in the 4×400 boys’ relay while the 4×100 relay team also earned a 4th (Sam Smith, Josh Ammon, Drew Smith, and Perris Jones).

Bishop Ireton will close the 2015 outdoor season next Friday, May 15th and Saturday, May 16th in Olney, Maryland, as Good Counsel hosts the 2015 WCAC track & field championships at Kline Stadium. Admission is $5/day.

The results are below:

Team Standings:

Boys                                         Girls

John Paul 124                           John Paul 175

Benedictine 105                        Paul VI 132

Bishop O’Connell 78                Bishop O’Connell 77

Paul VI  57                                  Bishop Ireton 37

Bishop Sullivan  38                   Walsingham Academy 32

Peninsula Catholic 38               Peninsula Catholic 32

Bishop Ireton 32                    Bishop Sullivan 10

Walsingham Academy 24           St Gertrude 3

Individual Highlights:

Isabelle Wilcox, 2015 Catholic State Champion in both the 800M and 1600M events.

Laura Mueller, 2015 Catholic State Champion for the 3200M event.

Thomas Ward, 3rd in the state in the 3200M event.

Josh Ammon 3rd in the state in the 110 High Hurdles event.

men’s 4X400 team for finishing 3rd in the state.
(Sam Smith, Will Barth, Drew Smith, and Josh Estevez)

-Charlotte Sofield finished 4th in the state .08 seconds away from finishing 3rd.

100M:
-Drew Smith finished 8th in the state
-Perris Jones finished 9th in the state

110 High Hurdles:
-Noelle Miranda finished 8th in the state
-Josh Ammon finished 3rd in the state

800M:
-Josh Estevez finished 6th in the state

1600M:
-Josh Estevez finished 7th in the state

200M:
-Perris Jones finished 9th in the state
-Will Barth finished 10th in the state

300M Hurdles:
-Paul Poling finished 4th in the state

3200M:
-Thomas Ward finished 3rd in the state
-Matt Poling finished 10th in the state

400M:
-Drew Smith finished 5th in the state
-Sam Smith finished 7th in the state

4X100 Relay (Sam Smith, Josh Ammon, Drew Smith, and Perris Jones):
-finished 4th in the state

4X400 Relay:
-finished 3rd in the state

Discus:
-Joe Siedlarz finished 6th in the state

Long Jump:
-Perris Jones finished 5th in the state
-Mikayla Lazar finished 6th in the state

Shot Put:
-Joe Siedlarz finished 10th in the state

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Rowers pose following a busy and successful day of racing on the Anacostia River at the 2015 WMIRA championships.

The 2015 WMIRA Championship was held Saturday May 9, 2015 on the Anacostia Rover. WMIRA has grown to be a large and premier organization with many of the leading rowing school racing under WMIRA. In recent years many Stotesbury Cup Regatta winners come out of WMIRA, noted the Cardinals’ Coach Jim Mitchell.

Bishop Ireton’s girls’ Senior Four won the WMIRA Championship for the very first win in a Senior/Varisty Event at WMIRA for program. The Rowers from Stroke of the boat to the Bow are Noelle Cheney, Isabel Shirron, Carla Pena and Elizabeth McCabe. The coxswain was a freshman Elyse Holmes. They won both their first heat and event final in very convincing form.

In a very tough race the boys’ Senior Four took a Bronze Medal racing against keen competition. With Veronica Richardson sidelined, Elyse Holmes had to cox both boats, literally jumping out of one boat and right into another. With the boys racing first in the finals, she had to land her boat and then immediately jump into the girls’ boat and get to the starting line, a 40-minute period normally, she hustled around in 8 minutes.

With the win, the girls have earned the right to represent this area in the Scholastic Rowing Association of America. This is an invitation only regatta and held over Memorial Day Weekend.

In a season marked by a new coaching staff, a prolonged winter, boat accidents, and a tough, unpredictable schedule, the rowers demonstrated a resilience in racing well in the season’s biggest meet to date, according to head coach Jim Mitchell.

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Isabelle Wilcox cruising to her first win in the 800 meters at Catholic State meet Saturday at John Paul the Great High School.

Bishop Ireton’s boys and girls track & field teams competed in the Virginia Catholic State championships at St John Paul the Great Saturday. The girls earned a 4th place finish with three champions while the boys were 7th.  St John Paul the Great won both the boys and girls titles handily on their home track.

Isabelle Wilcox claimed both the 800 meters and 1600 meter races and teammate Laura Mueller won the 3200 meter event to pace the Cardinal girls. Senior UNC-bound lacrosse player, Charlotte Sofield, ran in the 200 meter dash, and earned a 4th place finish in her first competition.

Thomas Ward snared the bronze medal for the boys’ 3200 and Josh Ammon was a third place finisher in the 110 meter high hurdles.  Brothers Sam and Drew Smith joined Will Barth and Josh Estevez for a third place in the 4×400 boys’ relay while the 4×100 relay team also earned a 4th (Sam Smith, Josh Ammon, Drew Smith, and Perris Jones).

Bishop Ireton will close the 2015 outdoor season next Friday, May 15th and Saturday, May 16th in Olney, Maryland, as Good Counsel hosts the 2015 WCAC track & field championships at Kline Stadium. Admission is $5/day.

The results are below:

Team Standings:

Boys                                         Girls

John Paul 124                           John Paul 175

Benedictine 105                        Paul VI 132

Bishop O’Connell 78                Bishop O’Connell 77

Paul VI  57                                  Bishop Ireton 37

Bishop Sullivan  38                   Walsingham Academy 32

Peninsula Catholic 38               Peninsula Catholic 32

Bishop Ireton 32                    Bishop Sullivan 10

Walsingham Academy 24           St Gertrude 3

Individual Highlights:

Isabelle Wilcox, 2015 Catholic State Champion in both the 800M and 1600M events.

Laura Mueller, 2015 Catholic State Champion for the 3200M event.

Thomas Ward, 3rd in the state in the 3200M event.

Josh Ammon 3rd in the state in the 110 High Hurdles event.

men’s 4X400 team for finishing 3rd in the state.
(Sam Smith, Will Barth, Drew Smith, and Josh Estevez)

-Charlotte Sofield finished 4th in the state .08 seconds away from finishing 3rd.

100M:
-Drew Smith finished 8th in the state
-Perris Jones finished 9th in the state

110 High Hurdles:
-Noelle Miranda finished 8th in the state
-Josh Ammon finished 3rd in the state

800M:
-Josh Estevez finished 6th in the state

1600M:
-Josh Estevez finished 7th in the state

200M:
-Perris Jones finished 9th in the state
-Will Barth finished 10th in the state

300M Hurdles:
-Paul Poling finished 4th in the state

3200M:
-Thomas Ward finished 3rd in the state
-Matt Poling finished 10th in the state

400M:
-Drew Smith finished 5th in the state
-Sam Smith finished 7th in the state

4X100 Relay (Sam Smith, Josh Ammon, Drew Smith, and Perris Jones):
-finished 4th in the state

4X400 Relay:
-finished 3rd in the state

Discus:
-Joe Siedlarz finished 6th in the state

Long Jump:
-Perris Jones finished 5th in the state
-Mikayla Lazar finished 6th in the state

Shot Put:
-Joe Siedlarz finished 10th in the state

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