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Montgomery County Public Schools sent a letter to the community on Thursday announcing several updates to the schools’ coronavirus response. One update dealt with students, ages 12 and up, planning to participate in winter and spring athletics. Moving forward they will be required to get the coronavirus vaccine. In the letter, MCPS outlined seven pieces […]

Friday is opening day for several fall MCPS sports. Sports such as field hockey, soccer, volleyball and bocce begin Friday afternoon and evening. For a full schedule, check below. The decision on whether football games will be played is expected later Friday. Today is fall opening day! We are so excited to welcome our student-athletes […]

MCPS says “play ball”. As part of the Return to R.A.I.S.E strategic plan, MCPS sports resume on Saturday. As schools plan to reopen, MCPS has allowed school sports to prepare for their fall semester seasons. The Return to R.A.I.S.E plan is a reimagined framework that outlines the safe return of MCPS athletics due to COVID-19. The plan […]

Montgomery County Public Schools announced on Friday that its fall sports season will begin on Feb. 27 and will last through April 17. MCPS lays out its plan for resuming its  athletics program in its seven page long Return to R.A.I.S.E., Second Semester Plan document. MCPS announced on its website, “all in-person programming will be […]

Maryland Superintendent Karen Salmon announced “the cancellation of all athletic events [and] sports for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year.” Salmon made the announcement at a State Board of Education meeting Tuesday afternoon. “This also includes the remainder of the 2020 Boys and Girls Basketball State Championships and all spring sports, as well as […]

In addition to closing school early, the weather is forcing other early closings and cancellations across the county. Montgomery County aquatic, recreation and senior centers are open for drop-in sessions, but scheduled classes and programs beginning at 2 p.m. are canceled. #RECAlert: All #MoCoRec programs,classes and activities beginning at 2 p.m. or later are cancelled. Club Adventure […]

Officials from Montgomery County Public Schools said “Friday night strikes” have caused a great deal of change for student athletes. For the last two weekends, football games, cross-country meets, and soccer matches were either delayed or canceled due to thunderstorms and lightning. And with Hurricane Florence plummeting the East Coast and mid-Atlantic regions, school athletic […]

Take us back to the fall, Phil. For those of us in the DMV it was warm, colorful and full of promise and rewards. I caught some but not all MoCo state high school championship winners in photo action during the year. So before the review starts let me congratulate these MoCo schools for a […]

A Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) official has announced that all Friday basketball games will be played on Thursday this week because of the weather forecast. The National Weather Service issued a Blizzard Watch for Montgomery County that begins Friday afternoon. MCPS Athletics Specialist Jeff Sullivan reports on his Twitter account that all the rescheduled […]