When I met with Nadira Ricks, she had just returned from the DCIAA National Girls and Women in Sports Day luncheon. This is just one of the many opportunities she is able to be a part of in her new role as athletic and Title IX coordinator. Now over halfway through the school year, Ricks…

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Track is a sport where people just run around a track, right? Not really. There is much more to the sport than meets the eye. What most people don’t see is all of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes. The realities of Wilson’s track and field team include rigorous weightlifting and swimming,…

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Wilson’s flag football team lost to School Without Walls by two points in last year’s regular-season finale, preventing their advancement to the DCIAA playoffs and ending their season sooner than they had hoped. But the team believes this season will be their best one yet. Both junior Alicia Chappel…READ MORE

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Three times a year, the Wilson ski team bundles up and heads out to Liberty Mountain Ski Resort in Fairfield, Pennsylvania for a day filled with skiing. The team is coached by science teachers Katherine Dougherty, Daniel Barringer, and Daniela Munoz. Dougherty explained that she became interested…

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Ricky Lindo Jr. was supposed to be playing at Northfield Mount Hermon, a prep school in Massachusetts, this season. Instead, Lindo finds himself as a key rotation player for the 13th-ranked Maryland Terrapins, playing in the Big Ten, arguably the best conference in the country. On Monday, Lindo’…

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After a summer of searching for new cheerleading coaches, Athletic Director Mitch Gore thought that he found his match with Taylor Hodge and Shante Tyler. “They were Division I cheerleaders, so they both had lots of experience. I thought they would bring structure and organization to the program,”…

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1:30.6 and 35.09. These two times are in the back of junior runner Ray Stevens’ mind every time he steps foot on the track. Why? Stevens explained that his main goal this season was to qualify for at least two events in the New Balance Nationals, a meet in Greensboro, North Carolina that hosts 3,500…

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Wilson’s special education program participates yearly in the Special Olympics as a part of its effort to reach a wider audience within the Wilson community. Wilson’s program participates in tennis, bowling, and track. There are weekly activities where Wilson competes with other schools’ special…READ MORE

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I play on multiple sports teams, so I had always considered myself to be pretty athletic. And then Maya Wilson, a fellow Beacon member, encouraged me to join the swim team. The idea initially excited me. Swimming sounded like a fun new way to train during the offseason. I even thought that I could…READ MORE

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Wilson sophomore Amel Yakoub grew up going to Friday night skating events with her friends. Now, she plays both right wing and defenseman for the Wilson ice hockey team, which was previously composed of all boys. Yakoub first lived in Maryland, where she began taking ice hockey lessons. She then…READ MORE

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