Atoms Athletics & Activities
Atom Nation,
Another week of sports comes to an end today with our Annandale Atoms wrestling tournament. This week saw senior night celebrations, competitive games, a winter pep rally to celebrate our teams, an exciting Friday night atmosphere, and a buzzer beating win by senior basketball player! As we look towards next week, we have a lot on the calendar for games and events but we would like to make note of a special game scheduled for Monday evening during halftime of the girls basketball game as our Annandale Unified Basketball team takes on members of the Annandale faculty!
Our athletic teams and performing arts continue their hard work and dedication to making the Annandale community proud! As we begin to wrap up season, we encourage our community to come out and show their support!
Go Atoms!
Annandale Activities Office
Atoms Athletics Highlights
This weeks recap:
**Before we get started on the recap, we would like to note that next weeks insider will have our spring sports tryout times. The first day of spring sports is Monday, February 20.**
Boys basketball lost to a tough Edison team Wednesday but bounced back on senior night to beat Lewis on a buzzer beating shot by Sam Dailey.
Girls basketball came out hot vs Edison but fizzled in the second half. They came back strong defeating Lewis convincingly last night.
Wrestling fell to Justice and Lewis Wednesday and finish the week with their Annandale wrestling tournament.
Gymnastics continues their growth as they celebrated senior night Wednesday with a couple gymnast coming away with their best performance of the year. Gymnastics now prepares for the National District Tournament on Monday, January 30.
Indoor Track had a successful meet at the Montgomery Invitational with many individual athletes qualifying for the regional tournament.
Swim/Dive won big over Mount Vernon with a couple swimmers qualifying for the regional tournament. They head into the National District Swim/Dive Championships next week.
We have officially finished our fall seasons with many of our Atoms student-athletes earning postseason All-District and All-Region recognition. These student-athletes worked hard and their achievements should be acknowledged! Check out the recipients using the link below:
Annandale Atoms Fall All-District/Region/State Recognition
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We would like to recognize members from our Orchestra program who were selected for District Honor Orchestra this fall.
Shalini Vlcan - Viola
Jazzy Tang - Viola
Thein Phan - Viola
Jenna Saykhamphone - Bass
Melanie Lam - Violin
Gear up with Official Atoms Spiritwear
Gear up for another action-packed season with official Atoms gear. You can dress in team-spirited garb on game day and every day with the largest selection of Annandale Atoms apparel at the official Atoms Store. Cheer on your Atoms with t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, and more.
Our online Atoms Shop has items for any occasion. Visit spiritwear.atomsboosters.org to see the latest Atoms gear.
From the Boosters
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There’s Still Time to Purchase Your Atoms All-Season Athletics Pass
The Atoms Booster Club’s All-Season pass provides you general admission access to all regular season home football, baseball, basketball, soccer, field hockey, lacrosse, volleyball, and wrestling events. With more than nine sports showcased, you can save BIG with the all-season pass!
Visit membership.atomsboosters.org for more information or to purchase your all-season pass online.
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Atoms Athletics Booster Meeting
Looking to join the Atoms Athletics Booster Club and be a part of raising funds and supporting Atoms Athletics?! Then come out to our next booster meeting!
Monday, February 6
6:00pm
Driver's Education room (Enter through Door 10)
We need your help!
The Atoms Athletic Booster Club needs your help with concession stand coverage. When the concession stand is open the booster club makes money and anytime a parent represents a sports program, that program receives a percentage of the sales! Please consider helping out and signing up below for one of our home events.
Boys Basketball:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F48AAA72FA6F5C61-ahsboys
Girls Basketball:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F48AAA72FA6F5C61-ahsgirls
Wrestling:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F48AAA72FA6F5C61-ahswrestling
Coaches Corner
Check out what our Atom's Coaches are saying about their programs! Each week our coaches will give a recap, provide a look ahead, or recognize a student-athlete.
BOYS BASKETBALL, Jerome McAvoy:
The boys basketball team had another successful week. Our JV team is on a 6 game winning streak. While freshmen team continues to improve and progress playing tough against TJ, Mt. Vernon, and Edison. Our varsity won comfortably against Mt. Vernon and but fell to a tough Edison team. Last night we celerated Senior Night against Lewis and came away with a win on a buzzer beater by senior Sam Dailey! Huge shoutout to Annamarie Nields, Sue Dailey, and our managers for organizing an outstanding Senior Night.
GIRLS BASKETBALL, Kenny Gregory:
Annandale Girls had a tough night on Wednesday vs Edison. Varsity came out strong and was down by at halftime. Susan Aburish and Ava Sewall came out hot and played great D in 1st half, but picked up costly fouls. Shahida Kargbo and Amir Giir-Thiik were all over the boards and had some great putbacks. The game got away in the 2nd half. All three teams came away with victories over Lewis last night!
GYMNASTICS, Madison Morella:
Gymnastics had their senior night this week where we celebrated 6 seniors. Senior, Kaylee Rivera, scored her highest on floor with an 8.05. Kate Hanlen also scored an 8.05 on floor. The girls travel to Lake Braddock next Thursday to finish up the regular season.
WRESTLING, Josh Damico:
The Atoms had a rough start to the week, losing to Justice 55-15 and host lewis 63-17. Winning both matches were Senior Marcelo Pozo (120) and Sophomore Dom Vejcik (150). The Atoms are back in action on 1/21 for the 2nd Annual Fallout Duals Presented by Kilroy’s at HOME starting at 9pm. On Wednesday 1/25 it is senior night known as PACK THE PIT where the Mat Rats and Seniors will wrestle at home under the bright light one last time. Bell time is 6pm! Come see the future and current Atoms in the last home match of the year!
INDOOR TRACK, Phil Harris:
This week the Winter track team competed at the Montgomery Invitational and TJ Middle School Community Center. We had some stand out performances. The girls team came home with a team victory defeating Edison and John Lewis at the TJ Community Center. Also at the Montgomery Invite we had a lot of PR's & Auto Region qualifiers: Noah Williams (Shotput) and Miles Lanham (Long Jump). Finally Evan Burita (55m) and Miles Lanham (300m and Triple jump) and Boys 4x200 relay qualified for the Addias Nationals later in March.
SWIM/DIVE, Carmen Lucas:
Swim & Dive just wrapped up the regular season with a win against Mt Vernon, putting both our boys and girls teams at a 4-3 record going into Districts. Swimmers Colin McGee and Melanie Decareau and diver Nathan Tran have prequalified for Regionals with cuts, and next week the rest of the team will compete in Districts to see who else will join them by placing in the top six.
Director's Cut
Get a behind the scenes look at our Performing Arts as they share recaps, a preview to performances, or what is going on their classes!
PERFORMING ARTS
In the Spring, AHS Performing Arts will be embarking on their Spring Trip to Florida, getting the opportunity to work with two college performing arts departments along the way. Donate at tinyurl.com/SpringTripDonate to support students getting to go on this trip!
Free Music Leadership Symposium
On Wednesday, January 25th at Lake Braddock Secondary School, Dr. Scott Lang will be hosting a student leadership symposium open to all FCPS high school music students from 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm. This is the first time FCPS has hosted an event of this nature and it is FREE to students! Students should RSVP by filling out the Music Student Leadership Symposium form by January 20.
BAND, Director Tyron Barnes:
"Congratulations to the following band students for winning their audition to participate in the All-District Band for District 10:
Shane Gomez-Trumpet
Tyler Perez-Euphonium
Vincent Vuong-Bass Clarinet"
CHOIR, Director Pat Vaughn:
As the second quarter wraps up, the Choirs at Annandale are beginning preparations for our State Assessment in March, our District Chorus event to be held on February 9-10 and our Singing Valentines which will be delivered on Tuesday, February 14. Singing Valentines will go on sale the week of February 6 in all lunches.
ORCHESTRA, Director Annie Ray:
Pizza and Pizzicato
On Wednesday, January 25th AHS Orchestra will be welcoming students from our Annandale Pyramid to work with SGM Marlisa Woods and MSG Dean Woods from The United States Army Band at our annual Pizza and Pizzicato event. If you can volunteer, please reach out to Manjali Vlcan: manjalivlcan@gmail.com
Supporting Orchestra - Benevity
PLEASE check your corporate policies, many companies filter donations for employees through an entity called Benevity. ANNANDALE HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA BOOSTERS is now registered with Benevity.
Benevity is a company that can help turn your volunteer hours into Donations for Orchestra!!! Please check with your corporate HR to see if your company uses Benevity. If your company does use Benevity, they may either match donations you make to the Orchestra Boosters, or you may simply need to record hours that you participate in orchestra events and your company may provide money to the Orchestra Boosters. (Some companies TRIPLE donations to charities made through Benevity and others offer a certain dollar amount of donation for time you're already spending participating in Orchestra events)
We know that Google, Visa, UPS, Starbucks, Booz Allen Hamilton, Microsoft and Netflix offer these options, but many mor in the area may as well.
THEATRE, Director Katie Brunberg:
Annandale Theatre Company just wrapped a successful production of Firebringer directed by alumna Amanda Weaver. Up next we have our Spring musical, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical. Auditions are February 6th! Students can sign up HERE.
Athletic Training Wrap
Our Athletic Trainers, Ryan Hughes and Kathy Ayers, work really hard behind the scenes of our Athletic events and they would like to share some tips and advice they give the student-athletes at Annandale High School everyday.
TIP OF THE WEEK
Make sure you're getting proper rest and sleep every night! This will help your body recover from games and assist with preventing sickness during the winter months!
Skip The Line With ETIX
Order your gameday tickets ahead of time and skip the line at the gate. Use the link below to access the Annandale schedule and order your tickets. Game tickets go on sale the day before the event
ETix Calendar
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Live Streaming
Please note that for the last year and a half, Fairfax County Public Schools paid for a countywide subscription for all schools and their communities. Unfortunately, FCPS will no longer be paying these fee. All of our events that take place on our stadium field and in our gymnasium will continue to be streamed live on the NFHS Network, but will now have a pay wall that the consumer will need to pay for.
Prices - $11.99 per month or $79.99 for an annual subscription.
For more information...
NFHS Network - Sign Up
Live Stream
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Weekly Schedule
January 23-28
Monday, January 23
F/JV/Varsity Girls vs Hayfield - 4:30/5:45/7:30pm
Unified Basketball Game vs Faculty during halftime of the girls varsity game
F/JV/Varsity Boys @ Hayfield- 4:30/5:45/7:30pm
Wednesday, January 25
Freshman Boys/JV Girls/JV Boys vs Falls Church - 4:30/5:45/7:30pm
Varsity Wrestling vs Mount Vernon (SENIOR NIGHT) - 6:00pm
Thursday, January 26
National District Dive Competition @ Audrey Moore -
Boys @ 10:30am
Girls @ 1:00pm
Freshman Girls/Varsity Girls/Varsity Boys @ Falls Church - 4:30/5:45/7:30pm
Gymnastics @ Lake Braddock - 6:00pm
Friday, January 27
National District Swim Prelims @ Audrey Moore - 5:30pm
Saturday, January 28
National District Swim Finals @ Audrey Moore - 5:30pm
JV Wrestling @ Westfield
Indoor Track @ TJ Middle School, Arlington - 7:30am
Special Olympics Tournament @ Freedom South Riding HS
Game 1 vs Lewis - 11:00am
Game 2 vs Freedom - 1:00pm
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