Montgomery Community Media

Thank ABC’s Wide World of Sports and broadcaster Jim McKay for one of sports television’s greatest spoken phrases: “… the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.” It is always at this time of year during state championship playoffs when this part of sports phraseology becomes so real. The money shot for sports photographers […]

The Quince Orchard Cougars dominated the Paint Branch Panthers Friday night in the last game of the regular season. The final score was 38-14. In a ceremony prior to the game, Paint Branch retired #54 Darnell Dockett’s jersey. Darnell Dockett was a 1999 graduate of Paint Branch High School with a remarkable football career including […]

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 […]

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 […]

Austin Cohen has cancer but that’s not what he wants you to know about him. He loves football, hanging out with his friends from Quince Orchard High School, snapchating and photography and a list of other fun things teenagers do. “I don’t think the story is the QO ex-football player or Gaithersburg teen who has cancer. I think […]

Half of the high school football season has gone by and it has been my pleasure to travel around the county to photograph many games for Montgomery Community Media. In this first edition of Friday Night Star Lights, I will provide a brief introduction to those outstanding individual performances played under those Friday night lights. […]

Armed with a bullhorn, John Kelley barked orders in his new role as head coach of the Quince Orchard High School football team. Kelly took over the head coaching job from longtime coach Dave Mencarini who left to coach at Urbana High School. Mencarini built the football program at the school as one of the […]

As I sit and watch the Redskins/Patriots pre-season game I already know he has what it takes. He is Travis Hawkins, #42, and a rookie on the New England Patriots – a MoCo local. I first put my lens on Travis about 2005 when he played for Coach Dave Mencarini at Quince Orchard. The hey-days […]

The head football coach of the Quince Orchard (QO) Cougars announced in a letter today to parents, students and QO fans that he has accepted a new job as head coach of Urbana High’s football team. You can read Dave Mencarini’s letter below:

Should old acquaintances be forgot and never brought to mind? So asked Scottish poet Robert Burns in the first line of his composition Auld Lang Syne. This year, my reaction to that question follows in a collection of photos I used in 2012 with a back story to each photo. First up – The Agony. […]