The Official VHSL Yearbook 2000-01
FROM: The Leaguer 2001-01
(reprinted with permission)
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The Official Yearbook of the Virginia
High School League
2000-01: A
Year of Stunning Achievement
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Brentsville District,
Jamestown and Lake Braddock were
the class of VHSL in 2000-01, winning Wachovia Cups for overall excellence in
state-level athletic competition.
Of the three winners, only Lake Braddock in Group AAA had won previously,
in 1998. Brentsville finished among
the Top 10 in Group A in each of the previous eight years.
Jamestown, a new school only four years old, finished second in Group AA
in 2000.
Brentsville won state championships in girls cross country and wrestling
and finished second in girls outdoor track, third in boys cross country and
fourth in golf.
Jamestown totally dominated Group AA, winning state championships in boys
soccer, boys swim/dive, girls swim/dive and girls tennis.
The Eagles also finished second in boys cross country and girls
volleyball and sixth in golf, reached the quarterfinals in girls basketball,
tied for seventh in boys outdoor track and earned sportsmanship recognition.
Fleet of foot, Lake Braddock won state titles in girls cross country and
boys and girls indoor track, placed second in boys cross country and girls
outdoor track and finished fourth in boys outdoor track.
The Bruins also reached the semifinals in field hockey and finished
eighth in boys swim/dive.
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Overall, VHSL crowned 65 state champions in 24 different sports in
2000-01. In the League's only new
state championship, Tabb came out of the play-in round to win the first
unclassified AA/A field hockey championship, topping Orange County 1-0 in the
final.
As impressive as are those achievements, they only touch the tip of VHSL
magic moments in 2000-01:
Nuckles, a 6-foot-9 junior, was a one-man show in leading Council to its
first Group A boys basketball championship, hitting on 11 of 18 shots and 6
of 7 free throws, scoring 28 points, 17 rebounds and six blocked shots.
a 15-year break, Group AA Martinsville set a VHSL record in winning
the school's 11th state boys basketball championship.
The Bulldogs won first in 1958, three times in the '60s, once in the
'70s and five times in the '80s, including a three-year run (1980-82).
Legendary coach Husky Hall was responsible for seven titles.
extended the League's longest current state championship winning streak in
sports, running away from the field to top second-place New Kent 34-99 and
secure the school's sixth consecutive Group A girls cross country title.
Peele finished first individually to lead the Tigers. Winning its first
Group AAA field hockey championship, Princess Anne extended the Beach
District's string of consecutive titles to 12.
Frank Cox and Kempsville won the other 11.
Ramsey scored twice, on 43- and 36-yard runs, as Riverheads piled
up 294 yards on the ground and won the Division 1 football championship
without ever throwing a pass.
Tank Washington ran for 117 yards and two touchdowns.
His only pass completion set up King William's final score as
the Cavaliers ground out 273 yards for the school's first Division 2
football title.
1999, Salem-Salem edged Park View-Sterling 21-20 for the Division 4
football championship when a Patriots field goal attempt sailed wide by less
than a foot. In a 2000 rematch,
Salem topped Park View 17-10 when Alan Crowder recovered a Patriots fumble
and scampered 10 yards for the winning score.
County beat Powell Valley in a one-hole playoff to claim the Group A
state golf championship, but Chase Kress and Barron Davis of Powell Valley
edged Floyd County's Aaron Summers, the defending champ, by two strokes to
share medalist honors.
the second highest state total ever, Princess Anne won its first
Group AAA gymnastics team championship and broke the Northern Region's
six-year hold on the crown. Emma
Cross, Atlee, and Kelly Kello, Ocean Lakes, split the individual
spoils, tying for the all-around championship, with Kello also winning
uneven bars and vault and Cross winning beam.
Amanda Candler, Princess Anne, took floor exercise.
first-year coach Randy May, West Springfield won its 14th shutout in
22 games and went undefeated to its first Group AAA state boys soccer
championship.
In three previous meetings
during the season, Langley had won two and tied one, winning district and
region championships, but W.T. Woodson won when it counted and took
home the Group AAA girls soccer championship.
Kolby Runager scored
four of Jamestown's five goals as the Eagles pulled off a shocker in
thoroughly dominating Blacksburg, the three-time defending Group AA boys
soccer champion, and ending the Indians' 87-game undefeated streak.
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Potomac Falls had won eight of
its last nine girls soccer games against Loudoun County rival Broad Run, had
beat the Spartans for the last two Northwestern District championships, the
last two Region II championships and in the state semifinals a year ago
before going on to the Group AA state championship.
However, Broad Run erased a lot of bad memories in beating the
Panthers 1-0 for the 2001 state title.
Jamestown swamped the
field in Group AA swimming, with the girls topping second-place Tabb by
nearly 100 points for a second-straight title and the boys edging Lafayette
by five to move up from second a year ago.
Langley won its fourth
consecutive Group AAA state girls swim/dive championship and over the four
years won 11 of 12 relay races. Langley's
Lindsey Ertter and W.T. Woodson's Marshi Smith each picked up
their sixth individual championship. Ertter
won the 200 individual medley and the 100 breaststroke for three straight
years. Smith won the 100
backstroke for three straight years and the 100 freestyle in 2001 (in
state-record time) and 1999. A
year ago, she won the 200 freestyle.
Radford's seniors
wrapped up their fourth straight Group A girls tennis championship and a
four-year record of 71-0-1. Caroline
Downs won the singles title and teamed with Jenni Gray for the
doubles crown as Radford became the first school to win back-to-back triple
crowns.
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John Handley scored a
triple crown in Group AA boys tennis, as Matt Stillwagon won the
singles crown and teamed with Ethan Hicks for the doubles title.
Centreville won its
third consecutive Group AAA girls tennis championship after matches had to
be moved 45 minutes after they began. When
blowing pine needles made the courts at Jefferson District Park unsafe, the
tournament was moved to George Marshall High School.
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Madison's Katie Ruckert for the first time, Jessica Vanderdys beat
Mary Kovarik for the first time and James and Venderdys teamed up to beat
Ruckert and Kovarik for the championship.
A week later, Ruckert beat her Centreville rival to win her third
consecutive state singles championship and teamed with Kovarik for a second
straight doubles crown.
Ebony Foster, Jefferson
Forest, bumped her total on VHSL gold to 11 over the last three years,
winning three Group AA titles this year: 55m run and long jump indoors and
long jump outdoors.
Only a junior, Bobby
Lockhart, John Handley, continued his domination of Group AA
distance running events, winning five championships this year on top of five
as a sophomore and three as a freshman.
For the second consecutive year, gold came in cross country and in
the 1,600 and 3,200 runs both indoors and outdoors.
He won AA cross country and the two outdoor events two years ago.
Albert Potts was
virtually a one-man show for Page County, the Group A boys outdoor
track champion. Potts won
gold in the 110m high hurdles, the 300m intermediate hurdles and the 200m
dash and finished third in the triple jump and seventh in the long jump.
Amy Seward, Salem-Virginia
Beach, won four Group AAA gold medals in 2001, taking the championships in
long jump and triple jump both indoors and outdoors.
Jerome Mathis, Petersburg,
went to the top of the Group AAA victory stand five times, winning gold in
the 55m dash and long jump indoors and in the 100m and 200m dash plus the
long jump outdoors. He won the
55m indoors a year ago.
Grundy wrestlers won
six individual titles and finished among the top four in four other weights
on the way to the school's 14th Group AA team championship in 15 years.
Tyde Prater at 130 pounds, Canaan Prater at 171 and Albert
Childress at 275 were all repeat champions for the Golden Wave.
With three repeat champions
and six individual titles, Great Bridge ran away with its 13th Group
AAA state wrestling championship in 15 years.
Michael Martin, a junior 130-pounder, won his third title and
put himself in a position to become the state's sixth four-time champ.
His father, David, accomplished the feat.
Christian Staylor repeated at 112, and Daniel Frishkorn moved
up from 103 to 119 for his second title.
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