The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

Sports

Determination in the Deep End: A Highlight on Girls Swim

Determination in the Deep End: A Highlight on Girls Swim

Maren Leonard, Reporter April 17, 2024

While some students have only been in the Yorktown pool for the dreaded swim unit, there are many student-athletes there every single day, training hard. Our school’s girls swim team has put in the work this year, and it has paid off. The team was...

Nats Show Promise for 2024 After Three Year Slump

Nats Show Promise for 2024 After Three Year Slump

Harper Kois, Reporter March 22, 2024

As the Wizards’ and Capitals’ seasons come to an end, DC residents are looking forward to another season of our nation's pastime to enjoy with friends or family. In recent years, the Nationals (Nats) have not given fans the season they hoped for....

Yorktowns weight room hosts a weightlifting intramural

Intramurals Bring All Sorts of Spring Sports to Yorktown

Katelynn Cox, Reporter March 22, 2024

After school, the fields are packed. The girls soccer team is preparing for their game, boys lacrosse is running drills, and the baseball players are carrying their gear onto the field. However, inside the gym is a hidden gem of our school’s sports:...

Capital One Arena in November 2023

Urban Exit: The Plan to Move the Capitals and Wizards

Brendan Schmitt, Reporter March 7, 2024

A recent announcement about the potential move of the Washington Wizards and Capitals to Alexandria has sparked controversy among fans of the two sports teams and residents of Alexandria. This move could happen as soon as 2027, when the mortgage for Capital...

Jose Breton for AP Photo

Europe’s Top Clubs Go Head To Head: Champion’s League Returns

Mason Wolverton, Reporter February 22, 2024

For some, February means love. For others, it means football. The Union of European Football Associations Champions League (UCL) returned on February 13, bringing high-stakes matches to a television near you. 2024 has been a jam-packed year for soccer...

Boys basketball team lining up for the National Anthem.

One Final Push: Boy’s Basketball Makes Playoffs

Katherine Schmitt, Reporter February 14, 2024

The playoffs are officially underway for the Yorktown Boys Varsity Basketball team. They are looking to continue their winning streak, wrapping up the 2023-24 season in the Liberty District Tournament. With a record of 12-10 going into the playoffs, our...

Credit to Alec Hicks

What a Rush! A Look Back On Our School’s Football Season

Zoe Davis and Maren Leonard December 14, 2023

The Friday Night Lights shone bright at Greenbrier as our school’s football team battled it out against Langley High School on October 13, 2023. The clock had wound down to one second left in the fourth quarter when the kicker took the field for the...

Yorktown Hockey Looks to Jump Start the Season

Yorktown Hockey Looks to Jump Start the Season

Matthew Wagner and Sydney Pons November 16, 2023

Excitement fills the air as students stream into Medstar Capitals Iceplex. The Yorktown Ice Hockey Club takes the ice, ready for the next forty five minutes of action. It’s time for hockey. The first games of the season are always important, and...

Nothin’ but Net… and Billions of Dollars

Nothin’ but Net… and Billions of Dollars

Zoe Davis, Staff Reporter April 17, 2023

Seven seconds. That’s how much time is left in the University of Virginia (UVA) vs. Furman University basketball game when a Furman player steals the ball and passes it to his teammate. In order for them to win, Furman must overcome a two-point deficit....

How Doping is Affecting the Running World

How Doping is Affecting the Running World

Brendan Schmitt, Staff Reporter April 17, 2023

Across the world of sports, there has been one consistent problem: doping. Every sports administration has been forced to adopt preventative measures to disencourage athletes from using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). Although most of these protocols...

By Jeff Turner, licensed under CC BY 2.0

A Look Into 2023 Men’s March Madness

Mary-Frances Dempsey, Reporter March 17, 2023

Every year, sixty-eight American college basketball teams participate in a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament known as “March Madness.” The teams are sectioned into four groups and compete in a single-elimination...

Recapping Yorktown Hockeys Past Season

Recapping Yorktown Hockey’s Past Season

Ajay Allman, Staff Reporter March 9, 2023

From its humble beginnings in 2003, the Yorktown Ice Hockey Club has evolved from a small, mainly junior varsity (JV) team to a premier program in the Northern Virginia School Hockey League (NVSHL). Under the leadership of Head Coach Jeremey Ferrara,...

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