Montgomery Community Media

Four Montgomery County basketball teams that advanced to the state semifinals will not be playing their games as scheduled it was announced Thursday. Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSA) postponed all state semifinal games which were set to be played Thursday through Saturday at two locations. The affected Montgomery County teams are the Springbrook […]

The Montgomery County Council has issued a proclamation recognizing the Maryland Bobcats soccer team on their national championship. The Maryland Bobcats became the United Premier Soccer League national champions with their win against the Santa Ana winds FC 3-1 Feb. 10 in Miami. The league was formed in 2011 and currently includes more than 300 […]

It’s playoff time for Montgomery County boys and girls basketball teams. These are some of the first-round girls’ games this weekend in 4A West: Region I: 2-seed B-CC hosts 7-seed Wheaton Friday night at 7:15 pm 3-seed Whitman hosts 6-seed Einstein Friday at 7:15 pm 4-seed Wootton hosts 5-seed Walter Johnson Friday at 7 pm […]

Georgetown Prep junior Kyonte Hamilton won gold at the National Prep High School Championship in the 220 pound weight class over the weekend. Hamilton defeated Wyoming Seminary sophomore Kolby Franklin by a score of 13-6 in the 220 pound finals on Saturday. Hamilton entered his junior year as the eighth ranked 220 pound wrestler in […]

A U.S. Naval Academy senior, who starred on the football field both at the academy and at Georgetown Prep in Bethesda, died Thursday night. David Forney, a senior offensive lineman at the academy, was found unresponsive in the academic dormitory Bancroft Hall. “The cause of death is being investigated; foul play is not suspected,” according […]

Dominique Dawes is the first African American female to win an individual Olympic medal in the women’s gymnastics. In total, she won three bronze and one Olympic gold medal between 1992 and 2000. Dawes, 43, now a mother to four young children, is opening the Dominique Dawes Gymnast Academy in Clarksburg in the spring of 2020.   The Silver Spring native […]

In a Policy Management Committee meeting on Feb. 18, the Montgomery County school board committee proposed that high school freshmen should be eligible for sports and extracurricular activities regardless of their grades. The discussion initiated when reviewing the student policy that requires student-athletes to maintain a 2.0 GPA and have no more than one failing […]

Damascus High School has named Josh Klotz as their new head football coach. Klotz – the head coach at Richard Montgomery High School since 2013 – replaces Eric Wallich who stepped down after 12 years at the helm at Damascus citing the need to spend more time with his family. Klotz took over a program […]

Washington Capitals star defenseman John Carlson visited fans at the Giant Food in Olney on Wednesday to sign autographs and take photos. Carlson, 30, is a native of Natick, Mass. but lives in Montgomery County. He’s in his 11th season with the Caps, and is in the midst of a career year with 70 points […]

Four students who said they “were victims of vicious sexual assaults” in Damascus High School football locker rooms during 2017 to 2019 filed suit Thursday against the Montgomery County Board of Education and several Damascus school officials and coaches. The 33-page and 31-page lawsuits detail the sexual assault incidents as well as an environment in […]