By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] *Update (12/5/2015): Woodgrove High School senior Trey Rustand — who initially verballed to Ohio Wesleyan University — has officially recommitted to play lacrosse at the Virginia Military Institute. Purcellville (September 16, 2015) — Woodgrove High School senior Trey Rustand has made a commitment to continue his lacrosse career at Ohio Wesleyan University beginning in the 2016-2017 school year. “I had a lot of great options, and I would like to thank those other schools for recruiting me first and foremost. But, OWU had a lot of huge pull factors and had everything I was looking for in a school,” the…
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Owen Gotimer
Owen Gotimer is an award-winning journalist and small business owner from Leesburg, Virginia. After graduating from Heritage High School, Owen spent his college years at Syracuse University, where he studied broadcast and digital journalism in the renowned Newhouse School of Public Communications, before earning a Masters degree in social media, culture, and society from the University of Westminster. Owen owns OG Media, a full-service marketing partner specializing in website design & development, content creation, and graphic design & print. Additionally, Owen is the president of of the Jeffrey C. Fowler Memorial Scholarship.
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] Ashburn (September 12, 2015) — Broad Run High School senior Chris Moore has made a commitment to continue his football career at the University of Virginia starting in the 2016-2017 school year. “Being committed is great. It’s such a relief to know where I’m going,” the 6-foot-2, 185-pound Moore said. “It takes away the recruiting-process stress, and from a football standpoint, it gives me a lot of confidence on and off the field.” And Moore has used that on-field confidence to help the Spartans to a 3-0 start this fall. In their season…
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] Leesburg (September 10, 2015) — Loudoun County High School senior Spencer Shipman has made a commitment to continue his lacrosse career at Christopher Newport University starting in the 2016-2017 school year. “It’s a great feeling knowing where you are going to school, while other kids my age are stressing about applications and essays,” the 5-foot-9, 145-pound Shipman said. “It gives me a jump start on researching certain majors and programs that CNU has to offer.” What Shipman can be sure CNU offers is a men’s lacrosse program that has seen steady improvement over…
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] Purcellville (September 8, 2015) — Loudoun Valley High School junior Claire Ashworth has made an early verbal commitment to continue her lacrosse career at Radford University beginning in the 2017-2018 academic year. “It’s very exciting, and I can’t wait to get to RU,” the 5-foot-7 Ashworth said. “I feel like all of my hard work over the years is paying off and providing me the opportunity to play at the next level.” At the next level, Ashworth will join the Division I Highlanders during their second season in school history. First year head…
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] *Update (11/17/2015): Broad Run High School senior Elise Dumouchelle has officially signed her National Letter of Intent to play volleyball at Saint Francis University. Ashburn (September 3, 2015) — Broad Run High School senior Elise Dumouchelle has made a commitment to continue her volleyball career at Saint Francis University starting in the 2016-2017 school year. “Starting senior year already knowing where I am going to be next year makes me feel like I actually have the opportunity to enjoy my senior year and not stress about when my acceptance letters are going to come in,” the…
By Owen Gotimer LoCoSports Editor-in-Chief [twitter-follow screen_name=’LoCoSports’] Leesburg (August 30, 2015) — It’s not every year that two of the top teams in a given area meet early in both teams’ seasons, but that didn’t stop reigning VHSL 5A state runner up Tuscarora High School and three time VHSL AA Division 4 state champions Briar Woods High School from meeting in their season openers on August 28 in Leesburg. “We put it on the schedule. It was good for both of us – because we have such a long schedule, such a tough schedule – to move it up front,”…