Winter Washington Post All-Met Athletes

Congratulations to seniors Courtlynne Caskin and Devon flowers for being named to the Washington Post basketball Honorable Mention team. Also named was junior Diego Cruzado, Honorable Mention in swimming and senior Sam Lu, Honorable Mention in wrestling.
 

Fall Washington Post All-Met Athletes 

Congratulations to senior Courtlynne Caskin and junior Grace Sherman for being named to the Washington Post girls soccer All-Met First Team. Courtlynne has committed to play lacrosse for UVA and Grace has verbally committed to Princeton for soccer. Senior Tracey Mills was named to the Second Team and has committed to play soccer for Dartmouth.

Junior Jack Rosener was named to the boys soccer Second Team.

Pictured top left, Caskin; top-right, Sherman; bottom-left, Mills; bottom-right, Rosener.

On Monday, the varsity softball team played Paul VI in an exciting game. Paul VI jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the third, but Potomac cut the lead in half with a long home run by pitcher Maria Urban, a double by Kate Entis, a single by Caroline Culp, and a sacrifice fly by Caroline Brown to drive in Entis. Potomac hit strong to tie the game.

Boys varsity tennis had two successful matches in Virginia Beach this past week. Cape Henry Collegiate fell to the Panthers 9-0, with sophomore Matthew Tran managing a golden set (not losing a single point!) in his singles match. The next day, the Panthers played Norfolk Academy.

Congratulations to our varsity and swim dive team for their accomplishments at the VISAA state meet. Our boys finished in 7th place and our girls finished in 8th.

The team also broke 7 school records.

Highlights include:

• 100 breast - Annie Tuttle-State Champion; Hannah Gould 4th place
• Boys 4x100 free relay - Connor Smith, TJ Sharkey, Andrew Bernstein and Diego Cruzado- 2nd place - broke school record set in 2001
• Boys 50 free- Diego Cruzado - 7th place - school record from 2001
• Girls 100 back - Katie Gould- 6th place- school record
• Girls 100 fly- Caroline Otteni- 4th place-school record; Hannah Gould 11th place
• Boys 100 free- Diego Cruzado- 3rd place-school record; Connor Smith 14th place
• Girls 200 IM- Annie Tuttle- 8th place; Katie Gould-school record- 9th place
• Girls 4x100 Free Relay - Katie Gould, Caroline Otteni, Hannah Gould, Megan Sharkey -7th place
• Girls 50 Free - Megan Sharkey- 10th place
• Girls 100 Free - Caroline Otteni- 15th place; Megan Sharkey- 16th place
• Boys medley relay -8th place Andrew Bernstein, Connor Smith, TJ Sharkey, Diego Cruzado
• Boys 200 free - TJ Sharkey -11th place
• Boys 200 IM - Connor Smith - 9th place
• Boys 500 Free - TJ Sharkey -7th place; Andrew Bernstein 13th place
• Boys 100 Back - Andrew Bernstein-14th place

All State

• 100 Breast - Annie Tuttle
• Boys 4x100 Relay – C.Smith, TJ Sharkey, A. Bernstein and D. Cruzado

Last weekend was a truly remarkable one for Potomac's girls and boys varsity squash teams as they swept the competition in the 2018 US Squash High School National Championships in Philadelphia.

After a tough win over Holton Arms, the Panthers and their fans celebrated the record-breaking accomplishments of senior Courtlynne Caskin. Courtlynne, who broke the girls career scoring record of 1,326 points last week, was honored before the game, as Head of School John Kowalik presented her with a special game ball. Caskin was featured in a January 8, 2018 article in the Washington Post.

On Saturday, Jan 20th, the boys varsity squash team traveled to Episcopal High School to defend their title at the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Squash Organization Championships.

As the top seed, the team received a first round bye and started off their campaign against St. Christopher's in the semi-finals.

Congratulations to the boys varsity soccer who defeated Sidwell Friends 1-0 on November 2 to win the MAC soccer tournament championship and earn a share of the 2017 MAC soccer banner.

Girls varsity soccer (pictured here in a game against Bullis) continued their winning ways, notching three more victories in the last seven days and claiming the ISL AA title on Tuesday! In their tenth win of the season, they beat Stone Ridge 3-0. Courtlynne Caskin, Charlotte White, and Grace Sherman scored.

A September 18 match against powerhouse Walter Johnson put our girls up against four highly-ranked tournament players. Our strong doubles combinations (Katherine Davis and Anna Lerner; Izzy Moran and Natalie Davidson; and Jodie Kuo and Emma Lee) all won with decisive scores. With the match tied at 3-3, freshman Pearl Nguyen saved the day, coming from behind to win 11-9 in a match that took over 2 1/2 hours! The end result: Potomac 4, Walter Johnson 3.

The Washington Post recognized Potomac tennis coach Marty Hublitz as All-Met Coach of the Year for boys tennis.

Hublitz recently completed his ninth year of coaching boys tennis at Potomac, having amassed a 152-27 record during that time. He has also spent two years serving as the head coach for Potomac's girls team.

Congratulations to the many Panther athletes who received either All-Met or All-State distinction this spring. Additionally, tennis coach Marty Hublitz (pictured with his 2017 team) was named All-Met Coach of the Year.