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Alexandria Sportsman’s Club honors host of Cardinals at annual gala

Posted On: Tuesday, May 26, 2015
By: wsimmons
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’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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