Montgomery Community Media

The NFL playoffs begin this weekend. Three of the four wild card games played on Saturday and Sunday will feature players and coaches from Montgomery County. Here’s the list: Stefon Diggs (Minnesota Vikings wide receiver): Played at Good Counsel High School and was Washington Post All-Met Defensive Player of the Year as a cornerback in […]

In a stunner at John Harvill Stadium Seneca Valley upsets previously unbeaten Rockville 14-9. What looked early on to be a defensive match between these two teams turned quickly into an offensive fourth quarter struggle.  Both teams went into the locker rooms at halftime with Rockville up 3-0 and Seneca Valley celebrating their homecoming event.  […]

Thirty years ago Watkins Mill High School opened with students reassigned from Gaithersburg  and Seneca Valley High Schools.  The rivalry that was created was a natural outgrowth of a new school being opened.  Seneca Valley in the 1970s, 80s and 90s was a dominant football power, not only in Montgomery County but in Maryland as […]

Are you ready for some high school football? Montgomery County schools kick off the new season Friday night. Look for photos and score updates from the Quince Orchard-Wootton and Seneca Valley-Watkins Mill games on MyMCMedia’s social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Montgomery Community Media will cover games all season. Last year, Quince Orchard won […]

Northwest (NW) High School’s special team defense led the Jaguars to a 35-0 win over Seneca Valley in their annual contest for the Kings’ Trophy.  Three blocked punts by NW deep in Seneca Valley territory resulted in three touchdowns.  The first blocked punt on the opening series was run in for a score by NW’s […]

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 […]

Seneca Valley’s football Coach Fred Kim cajoled his team huddled under the home field goal post before taking the field against Magruder. Under the posts Kim told the Screaming Eagles to “dispatch this team and make quick work of it”. He continued telling them that for tonight Seneca was the better team on the field. […]

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 […]

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. […]

The Seneca Valley Screamin’ Eagles football team won Friday’s home non-conference game against Gaithersburg by a score of 42-7.