Whiz Kids: McLean High School Honors Teams, Athletes; Theater Dept. Honored at Kennedy Center

During the last week of school, McLean High School honored the following sports teams and athletes. The PTSA also recognized students in the theater department.

Boys Tennis: The boys tennis team had a banner year this season, finishing undefeated in District play going 16-0 and capturing the Liberty District Championship.

In the Liberty District tournament, Nik Padmanabhan won the singles title and Nik and Kayvon Mobaraek won the doubles title. The team followed it up with a Regional final four appearance. In the Regional Singles and Doubles tournament, Nik was a regional finalist and will compete in the State Singles tournament starting on June 7. To cap off their outstanding play on the court, Coach Aavo Tomkov was named Liberty District Coach of the year.

The following individuals received recognition:

Nik Padmanabhan-All District, 2nd Team All Region, Honorable Mention All-Met
Kayvon Mobarakeh-All District, 2nd Team All Region
Kyle Chisu Edwards-All District, 1st Team All Region
Mike Padmanabhan-All District, 1st Team All Region
Ahmed Skalijic-all District, Honorable Mention All Region
Bing Waid-all district, 2nd Team All Region
# 1 Nik Padmanabhan/Kayvon Mobarakeh All District Doubles
# 3 Kristian KC/Joon Yee All District Doubles, 2nd Team All Region Doubles
Mark Martinkov-All District Honorable Mention

Girls Tennis: The girls' tennis team had an outstanding season, finishing with a 12-4 record and qualified for the regional team tournament. In the liberty district singles and doubles tournament, Anna Pelak had an outstanding tournament finishing in 3rd place.  In the doubles tournament, Anna and Julia finished in third place. In Regional team play, the girls won two big matches against Chantilly and Woodson to reach the Regional Final Four.

The following individuals received recognition:

Julia Volkova-1st Team All District
Anna Pelak-Honorable Mention All District
Natalie Noll-Honorable Mention All District
Aliya Naheem-Honorable Mention All District

Boys Soccer: The Boys Soccer team had an outstanding year finishing in the top 4 in the regular season with many quality wins. Going into the District tournament as the 4 seed, they put together 3 straight wins against Stone Bridge, Thomas Jefferson and Langley to capture the Liberty District Championship and qualify for the Northern Region tournament! 
Following individuals received recognition:

All Met:

Michael Russo-1st Team
Robert Maffei-Honorable Mention

All Liberty District:
1st Team- Mike Russo (District Player of the year), Mark Saunders, Robbie Maffei
2nd Team: David Galdo, Nikos Pavlis, Kyle Pyne

All Northern Region:
1st Team- Mike Russo (Northern Region Player of the Year)
2nd Team- Mark Saunders

Girls Soccer: The girls soccer team had a great campaign getting off to a fast start battling a tough district and non district schedule. The team entered the District Tournament as the three seed and made a tremendous run beating Fairfax, Langley and Stone Bridge to capture the Liberty District Championship, going back to back in 2011 and 2012. With the win the team qualified for the Regional tournament. The following Individuals received awards:

Caroline Gray-1st Team All Met, 1st Team All District, 1st Team All Region.
Evelyn Robinson-1st Team All District, 2nd Team All Region
Rose Sommovigo-1st team All District, Honorable Mention All Region
Bri Nielsen-2nd Team All District
Elizabeth Fuller Overby-Honorable Mention All District
Maddy Dalzell-Honorable Mention All District

Baseball: The Baseball team had an outstanding season with many team and individual accolades. They finished with a 15-9 record against a very tough regional schedule.  The team had a great regular season finishing with the two seed in the liberty district tournament and making to the Liberty District Championship game. The team followed up with a spot in the Regional tournament. The following players received these accolades:

Josh Sborz –All Met Player of the year. 1st Team All Met Pitcher. Player of the Year, All District and All Region, 1st Team All District & 1st Team All Region-Pitcher
Brock Hunter – 1st team All District, Honorable Mention All Region
Hardy Cox – 1st team All District, Honorable Mention All Region
Joey Sullivan – 2nd team All District
Mark Hannibal – Honorable Mention All District
Tom Cresce – Honorable Mention All District
Jack Fant – Honorable Mention All District

Softball: The Softball team had an outstanding season finishing with a 17-6 record with many quality wins on the season and advancing to the District semi-finals and the Northern Region tournament. Congratulations to the following individuals who received All District:

Lauryn Hahne- 1st team All District and District pitcher of the year.  2nd Team All Region
Maddie Moore-1st Team All District, 1st Team All Region, Honorable Mention All Met.
Mary Spulak-1st Team All District, 2nd Team All Region
Allison Wilhelm-2nd Team All Met, 1st Team All District, 1st Team All Region
Tina Anwyll-2nd Team All District
Erin Caplin-2nd Team All District
Christi Geisler-2nd Team All District
Maddy Witchey-2nd Team All District

Boys Lacrosse: The Boys lacrosse team had several quality wins this year with district wins over Fairfax and Marshall. Several lacrosse players received individual honors:
Coleman Hopkins-1st Team All District, Honorable Mention All Region
Nick Baker-1st Team All District, Honorable Mention All Region
Brian Sanders-1st Team All District, Honorable Mention All Region
Alex Morris-Honorable Mention All District
Sam Cheplick-Honorable Mention All District
Stephen Bush-Honorable Mention All District
Sam Miller-Honorable Mention All District

Girls Lacrosse: The Girls lacrosse team had several quality wins this year with wins over Washington Lee and Falls Church. The following Individuals received recognition.
Elise Koehl- 1st team All District
Alex Lockhart- Honorable mention All District
Kat Mulligan- Honorable mention All District
Jacki Kleger- Honorable mention All District

Outdoor  track: Outdoor track had a very successful season competing in several prestigious meets in addition to their District Schedule: Some of the top performances in District were the following:
Kelly Oler – 100m dash – 4th;  High jump – 3rd 
Alexa Tabackman – 1600m run – 2nd
Megan McCormack – 1600m run – 4th
Madalyn Harper – 1600m run – 5th
Elizabeth Lewis – High Jump – 5th
Alex Kohout – Pole Vault – 6th
Michael Vignali – 400m Dash – 4th; 4x400 – 3rd
Mac Howard – 800m Run – 3rd; 4x400 – 3rd
Alex Hedrick – 300m hurdles – 3rd; Pole Vault – 2nd; Long Jump – 5th; 4x400 – 3rd
Ben Blumenthal – 300m hurdles – 6th; 4x400 – 3rd
Scotty Lafoon – Shot Put – 1st; Discus – 1st
Cole Matheny – Discus – 6th

In addition to the many accomplishments at the District Level. Scott Lafoon and Alex Hendrick qualified for State competition. As well Scott Lafoon received Honorable Mention All Met.

Crew:  2012 Crew had a very tough but successful 2012 campaign with the Novice Men winning the Bronze medal at the Ted Phoenix, the Freshmen Women making the State Final in their event and a great showing by all of the boats in most of the 12 to 14 regattas the teams competed in.
Notably the Women’s Lightweight Eight and Men’s Lightweight Eight were the cream of the crop but our Women’s and Men’s Senior Fours finished in the top 10 in the country, not to mention McLean had six boats invited to the National

Championships and one boat invited to the Youth National Championships.  McLean won the Mid Atlantic Erg Sprints Team Trophy for the 11th time in 12 years and placed two rowers on the First Team ALL-MET team and three rowers on the Honorable Mention Team, We had two ALL MET Best Boats (Light 4 for Boys and First 4 and Light 8 for Girls) and probably most notably are only losing 10 seniors out of varsity boats, making way for a strong showing in 2013.

The following Individuals received awards:

Kris Hobbs-1st Team All-Met
Matthew Hale-Honorable Mention All-Met
Melissa Frazee-1st Team All-Met
Meghan Wheeler-Honorable Mention All-Met
Lauren Pappas-Honorable Mention All-Met

Amy Poe and the Theater Department
 
Theater Department Honored. The McLean Theater Department, headed by Amy Poe, brought home six Cappie Awards recently. Cappies are the Tony Awards for high school theater.
 
Best Play:  A View from the Bridge
Best Actor:  Damian Leverett
Best Actress:  Lexi Shoaibi
Best Team:  McLean Cappies Critics Team
Best Returning Critic:  Madelyn Paquette
Washington Post Award:  Madelyn Paquette