Category: High School

It’s not often in a season that a District of Columbia Interscholastic Athletic Association (DCIAA) school takes on a Washington Catholic League team in high school football, but the Sept. 23 matchup between Dunbar High and DeMatha proved to be an exciting one. The DeMatha Stags escaped with a 27-19 victory thanks in large part […]

Poly’s Donovan Riley is already known as one of the best players in Baltimore City high school football. But Riley may have made his claim as perhaps the very best cornerback in the city after his career performance in Poly’s 12-0 win over Edmondson-Westside Sept. 24. According to The Baltimore Sun, Riley missed three days […]

The Paul L. Dunbar Poets are proving they still have one of the stingiest defensive units in high school football, shutting down the City College Knights, 18-6, in Baltimore City Division I contest on Sept. 17 at Poly Tech. After holding Dunbar of Washington, D.C. to just eight points in the season opener on Sept. […]

As soon as Stacy Lipkins received the handoff he knew it would finish as something special. The Coolidge high school senior running back didn’t need much, just a block or two, and the rest he was confident he could finish himself. Wearing jersey No .1 for a steadily rising Coolidge Colts team, he took the […]

When the Wise Pumas were last seen leaving a football field, it was to the tune of bitter 6-0 defeat at the hands of Urbana High School in the Maryland 4A State Final last December. But since their last outing, head coach DaLawn Parrish has been steadily working over the summer to restore the confidence […]

Even the parents of 11-year-old Tyler Badie can’t keep up with the blazingly fast track phenomenon. The rising seventh-grader recently finished as a top five finalist in a regional qualifier track tournament, granting him a trip to New Orleans, La., to participate in this year’s AAU Junior Olympics. The 10-day event will begin July 28 […]

Fifteen-year-old Dorian Claggett recently made a host of Marylanders proud after qualifying for the 2011 AAU National Junior Track and Field Olympics. Dorian, a native of Baltimore, Md., earned first-place honors in the 200-meter dash, 400-meter dash, 100-meter relay and the 400-meter relay June 11-12 at the Maryland district meet, a Junior Olympics qualifying meet […]

Budding basketball businessman Arize Ifejika didn’t just take over the local hardwood scene overnight—he did it gradually. The former Florida A&M graduate caught his first break in 2007 as the fresh-faced assistant tournament director of Hoop Group, New Jersey’s leading youth basketball organization. From there, Ifejika transferred titles down to Chantilly, Va., home of Hoop […]