Centreville High Sports Notebook

The CVHS track and field team opened their season in a tri-meet at Oakton against division rivals and on March 28. 

Coach Givon Holmes used the meet as an opportunity to look at new talents for the team and many athletes participated in a new event for them. The highlights for the Wildcats included first place for Sara Emsley and Nathan Milton in the discus, Chris Jones in the triple jump and Xavier Nickens in the long jump.  Second place finishers included Amber Assadi in the 400, and Kris Watson in the girl's triple jump. Seo Hee Im and Maria Cowen finished third in the 100 and triple jump, respectively. Third place finishers for the boys were Calvin Jones in the 400 and Mikael Mantis in the triple jump.

The teams' next tri-meet is at home on Wednesday, April 11.

On Saturday, March 31, the track team hosted the second annual Centreville Relays. The team represented themselves very well, while competing against a combination of Maryland and Virginia public and private high schools. There were several freshman only races and our team excelled in that division, with the freshman boys' team placing first and the girl's third.

Some of the highlights for were:

First place, freshman girls 1600: McKinsey Smith
First place, girls shuttle hurdle relay: Sydney Evans, Hawa Koroma, Rachel Lee, Lisa Dinschel

First place, freshman boys 4x400 relay: Freddy Meny, Rizky Said, Rizwan Said, Michael Bishop
First place, boys distance medley relay: Chris Jones, Dan Molina, Chan Young Lee, Alex Marmol)
Second place, girls distance medley relay: Isabella Medina, Kylie Cuomo, McKinsey Smith, Natalie King)
Second place, freshman boys 1600: Bobby Dunn

Second place, boys triple jump relay: Mikeal Mantis and Zach Burton
Third place, boys long jump relay: Philip Christophe and Kris Watson-Echevarria (Philip was second overall).

Over the week of spring break, the Wildcats competed in the Leslie Sherman Invitational at West Springfield. Among the meet highlights were some outstanding performances in the Discus. Senior Sara Emsley won the girl's event and senior Nathan Milton was third in the boy's event. 

Other top finishers included Chan Young Lee, who was second in the 3200, Chris Jones, who was third in the 1600 and a third place finish in the 4x800 relay with the team of Chan Young Lee, Brandon Kim, Tony Dahbura and Kevin Nguyen.  The boys team secured an eighth place finish at the meet.

—Monique King

The Lady Wildcats softball team participated in 's spring break tournament, playing games on March 24, 31 and April 2. The Wildcats dominated all games except the championship match against the tournament host as they secured second place overall for the event. 

The Wildcats resumed district play on April 10 against and will play at 6:30 p.m. on April 13 at home against .

—CVHS softball varsity media staff

All-met sports: Congratulations to Evan Fuller and Chaney Forbush for being named to the All-Concorde District team, and to Nathan Marks for an all-met honorable mention by the Washington Post!