Atoms Athletics & Activities
Atom Nation,
We finish another exciting week of athletics and activities. A lot to be proud of within all of our programs. We begin postseason action with swim and dive competing in the National District meet to complete the week today, while our wrestling and indoor track team compete this upcoming week! We begin to close the door on the winter season but make note below of the first three days of spring sports tryouts! We officially start in a little over three weeks!
We would like to send a huge congratulations to our One Acts team. They took second place in the VHSL One Acts sectional Friday afternoon! They will be moving on to regionals in a few a weeks! Orchestra held their Pizza and Pizzacoto Wednesday evening, that hosted over 260 elementary students! It was a huge success that continues to build our orchestra department!
Our athletic teams and performing arts continue their hard work and dedication to making the Annandale community proud! As we begin to wrap up our winter season and look forward to our spring seasons, we encourage our community to come out and show their support!
Go Atoms!
Annandale Activities Office
Atoms Athletics Highlights
Boys basketball lost two tough games to defending state champion Hayfield and a gritty Falls Church team. They look to right the ship vs Justice and TJ this week.
Girls basketball played hard but got cold at the wrong time during each game vs Hayfield and Falls Church. They travel to Justice and finish the week with senior night vs TJ.
Wrestling held their annual Pack the Pit vs Mount Vernon for senior night on Wednesday. The results weren't what we wanted but the wrestlers battled. A young team with a lot of growth means the future is bright for the grappling Atoms.
Gymnastics prepares for the National District meet Monday evening at Mount Vernon.
Indoor Track prepares for the National District meet next Friday and Saturday evening.
Swim/Dive competed in the National District competition Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Two divers will move on to regionals while many swimmers move to Saturday finals.
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
Spring Tryout Dates and Information
We a little over three weeks away from spring sports getting under way. The first three days of tryouts are posted below. Before a student-athlete is allowed to tryout they must have three completed items. A VHSL physical, completed activity registration, and insurance. You can find more information by clicking on the link below.
If you have questions, please contact the Annandale Activities Office (703)-642-4170
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 Atoms boys basketball team competed hard against Hayfield and Falls Church but came up short in both games. The boys JV team continues to roll they have won 7 out of their last 8. They have a great opportunity to finish the season 12-2 in conference. Coach DeWayne Nelson leadership and guidance has propelled our boys to playing outstanding basketball. The district grind continues next week. We host Justice on Tuesday. It will be a big night for our community as we are hosting the Annandale Boys and Girls Club night. We expect a great environment. Any ABGC player who wears their jersey will get free admission and during halftime of the Varsity game, ABGC travel team will play in front of our crowd. We close the week at Jefferson.
GYMNASTICS, Madison Morella:
Gymnastics is set for the National District Championship Monday at Mount Vernon High School!
WRESTLING, Josh Damico:
The Varsity Wrestling Team had their final match of the year on Wednesday the 25th, Senior Night aka PACK THE PIT where the seniors wear white and the team wrestled under the spotlight. The dual went in favor of the opposing Mount Vernon Majors 45-30, but the young team tried their best to send the seniors out with a win. Senior Marcelo Pozo ran his record to 33-2 with a second period pin; with that pin Pozo has locked the top seed for next weeks district tournament. Others winning matches were Freshmen Charlie McGinity (106) and Adam Khaliqi (113), and Sophomores Dom Vejcik (150) and Jordy Lopez-Funes (157) The Varsity will begin the postseason at Lewis High School on 2/2 for the National District Tournament.
The JV Atoms conclude their season today at the prestigious CHAMPIONSHIPS OF THE WORLD! Action starts at 9am.
INDOOR TRACK, Phil Harris:
This week the Atoms Indoor Track team travels to TJ community center for the last regular season meet of competition. We expect some great performances as well as the return of Coach Phil Harris as we also prepare the District championships next week.
SWIM/DIVE, Carmen Lucas:
Dive competed in the National District Dive competition on Thursday. Nathan Tran came away with a third place finish in the boys competition and Morgan Milman finished sixth. Both divers move on to the Occoquan Regional meet next week. Swim completed the first night of National District Prelims last night with many Atom swimmers moving on to the finals tonight.
Annandale Swim & Dive finished their first two rounds of Districts with Dive on Thursday and Swim prelims on Friday! Our whole team showed out this year with about half qualifying for finals, and several kids qualifying for Regionals in both swim and dive. On to finals tomorrow to see which relays will go.
Annandale Swim & Dive finished their first two rounds of Districts with Dive on Thursday and Swim prelims on Friday! Our whole team showed out this year with about half qualifying for finals, and several kids qualifying for Regionals in both swim and dive. On to finals tomorrow to see which relays will go.
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!
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:
It has been a busy week for Annandale Orchestras!
On Wednesday, Annandale HS welcomed 260 Orchestra and String students from our pyramid to our annual Pizza and Pizzicato event. We were honored to have SGM Woods from The United States Army Band clinic with each school and put on an inspiring performance that was standing room only. A huge thank you to our pyramid teachers and Annandale Orchestra students who pulled off an amazing event!
Orchestra students Asia Pham, Melanie Lam, Hector Alvarez, and Alison Coria-Tarazona attended Scott Lang's Music Leadership Symposium on Thursday at Lake Braddock SS. They had the chance to learn leadership skills that apply both in and outside of the music classroom and hear about why music education is so important. A huge thank you to FCPS and Fairfax Arts Coalition for Education for sponsoring this clinic!
Pictures from both events can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10RBlwD9OZZnubHMypmulD3FgpbO_Vztu
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.
Congratulations to One Acts on finishing second place!
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Theatre 3 & 4 students took 2nd place at the VHSL One-Act Sectional this past weekend with their play, Burglars, Bunglers & Neighborhood Thieves. They will be advancing to Regionals. Congratulations to Tim Hurd, Casey Visscher, Kaya Thomas, Sammetta Worzie, Hang Minh Nguyen, Sandy Rocha, Mars Crowley, Hárū Hernández, and Ms.Brunberg
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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 30-February 4
Monday, January 30
National District Gymnastics Meet @ Mount Vernon - 6:00pm
Tuesday, January 31
F/JV/V Boys vs Justice - 4:30/5:45/7:30pm
F/JV/V Girls @ Justice - 4:30/5:45/7:30pm
Thursday, February 2
National District Wrestling Tournament @ Lewis - 12:00pm
Friday, February 3
F/JV/V Girls vs TJ (SENIOR NIGHT) - 4:30/5:45/7:30pm
F/JV/V Boys @ TJ - 4:30/5:45/7:30pm
Occoquan Region Dive Competition @ Oak Marr Rec Center
Boys - 8:45am
Girls - 12:30pm
Occoquan Region Swim Prelims @ Oak Marr Rec Center - 5:30pm
National District Indoor Track Championship @ Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Arlington - 6:00pm
Saturday, February 4
Occoquan Region Swim Finals @ Oak Marr Rec Center - 5:30pm
National District Indoor Track Championship @ George Mason University - 2:30pm
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