Montgomery Community Media

My Wednesday started at 3:30 a.m. with a drive across Gaithersburg to St. John Neumann’s Church (SJN) in Montgomery Village. I was there for the parish’s 4 a.m. Mass for those who would travel to Washington, D.C. to see the “Papa” and await his parade around the Ellipse. My roots to St. John’s go back […]

I had the pleasure last week to drop in at the Montgomery County Athletic Directors (AD) August Meeting. All 25 ADs were present and hard at work coordinating with Montgomery County Police Department district captains on the upcoming fall sports season for their respective schools. During break between the planning activities I was able to […]

It’s time to pack it up and head for the beach. Summer swim season in Montgomery County officially ended today with the premier meet of the season – the Montgomery County Swim League’s (MCSL) Individual All Stars.  All season long swimmers swam for the sake of the team – some times in events where they […]

I stopped by the Upper County Recreational Center and pool this Saturday morning for my normal summer rain shower.  This MoCo pool was hosting the MCSL “A” Divisional Championships – the final team swim meet of a short season. It was a splash dance.  Water everywhere. On me. On them. On my cameras, one of […]

  “I got it” Lauren announced loudly to her new friends gathered nearby as she peaked up from her Canon Rebel T5 viewfinder. She just captured Phoebe dressed in her ballerina outfit as she leaped in flight. She turned the camera’s 3-inch LCD screen for Darby and Reese to see and then smiled. Jacqui and […]

The 12 and under boy swimmers from Tilden Woods and Bethesda were up to the pool edge waiting for the starter to whistle the beginning of this “A” meet. All prelim’s were finished, the national anthem sung and all they needed to hear was the words “swimmers take your mark”. The meet announcer interrupted this […]

Seven on Seven football has become a spring rite of passage for rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors interested in playing varsity in the fall. The 2014-2015 sports calendar for high school students ends with the last pitch of the varsity baseball state championship, which coincides with Memorial Day weekend.  The following week prospective […]

Balls bounce. Sometimes toward your favor other times they are just out of reach. And so it went for the Churchill boys’ lacrosse team – balls bounced away. Howard Lions boys’ lacrosse team remained undefeated (20-0) in this their championship year thus denying the Churchill Bulldogs a chance to claim their part of MPSSAA lax […]

Gaithersburg’s baseball team came ready to play on Wednesday evening and smoked the Quince Orchard Cougars 8 to 1 to advance to the 4A West MPSSAA playoff. Trey Martinez and Nick Pantos, the Trojan’s, respective catcher and pitcher/second-baseman, sparked this explosive team with home runs. Brendan Deyo pitched through five and one-third innings holding the […]

Friday at Quince Orchard High School’s Cougar Dome. In the survive-and-advance environment that is the state playoff system for lacrosse in the Maryland Public Scholastic Sports Athletic Association (MPSSAA) all high schools have a chance to go on a run and advance to the state finals. Hot hands or in this case the hot sticks […]