Regardless of the outcome of its final two games, John Carroll’s lacrosse team is making a concerted effort to be regarded as a legitimate contender for an A Conference title.
The 2024 IAAM Badminton postseason tournament gets underway this week as participating schools will take to the courts on Wednesday, April 24th for first-round action at Roland Park Country School.
With a seasoned veteran coach leading the lineup and a team that's as comfortable with each other as a well-worn catcher’s mitt, Mount de Sales Academy softball is in ready position to face the field of competitors in the IAAM’s “A” conference.
Slowly and surely, the Mercy golf team is finding its way this spring. The Magic performed well in the only match of the season against Garrison Forest — a 3-0 victory at the Green Spring Valley Hunt Club — in late March before a spate of bad weather hampered some potential practice sessions for Mercy and other B Conference squads.
Fast breaking to a 4-0 start in IAAM “B” conference play and a 7-4 record overall that includes wins against formidable “A” conference opponents, it would be easy to call Gerstell Academy’s lacrosse season a success to date. After all, it’s a standing ovation worthy turnaround after goose egging it at the bottom of the “A” conference leaderboard last season.
Not all of Notre Dame Prep’s softball players are underclassmen, although it might seem that way sometimes. For instance, of the first seven hitters in the stacked Blazers’ lineup, just one — senior second baseman/pitcher Haley Amato — is not from the 2026 or 2027 classes.
It’s been a decade since Annapolis Area Christian School hung a softball title banner and head coach George Billett and team are looking to be the squad on deck to repeat the feat.
The Concordia Prep track and field team is making steady strides in the early going of the B Conference season, which included a meet at McDonogh last week.
Garrison Forest School’s badminton team has already equaled their total wins from last
season as a hot 4-1 kickoff finds them perched in a three-way 2nd place tie on the IAAM
leaderboard.
Lutherville, Maryland – The Maryvale Varsity Lacrosse team traveled to Florida over Spring Break to practice and compete. The team played two games. They beat IMG Academy first and then took the win against Lassiter HS from Georgia.
Some people may not be aware that NIL (Name, Image & Likeness) rights also apply to high school athletes in Maryland — one of 33 states and the District of Columbia that allow student-athletes to be compensated for their efforts.
Being No. 1 in the Baltimore Sun’s preseason basketball rankings, and completing the campaign in the same exalted position — for the third year in a row, mind you — is a feat not easily accomplished. At McDonogh, though, under IAAM Coach of the Year Brad Rees, the thought of such success comes with the territory.
Notre Dame Prep coach Jim Lancaster had a few obstacles to overcome on his way to complete a very satisfying indoor track season. Now in his 20th year of coaching and second at NDP, Lancaster and assistants Nate Jones and Tunde Oyediran made the very best of every situation facing the league in general and the Blazers specifically.
Dani Kell Steinbach, the Roland Park Country School co-director of athletics, acknowledged that the Reds’ swimming program has had its ups and downs in the B Conference. That is, before Toni Armstrong was brought on board prior to the 2022-23 season.
Under Kate Brendler, Bryn Mawr has confirmed its reputation as the premier high school squash program in the Baltimore area by claiming the league’s first three championships.
She was amply rewarded by her coaching peers, who elected her as the 2024 IAAM Squash Coach of the Year, for maintaining that exalted position.
While Terri Moeser will no longer be the Maryvale Athletic Director after 21 years on the job, her return to the classroom at the school will undoubtedly be a blessing for her students.
For her coaches at Maryvale and IAAM colleagues alike, her stature and experience have stood out for more than two decades.
Simply put, Moeser is among the best in the business and highly regarded by her peers.
Coach Casey Corkin’s halftime strategy was simple, straightforward and, fortunately for Indian Creek, successful at the C Conference championship game on Sunday at Stevenson University.
Basically, Corkin told his players that the best way to beat Glenelg Country School would be to attack the paint with freshmen forwards Stephanie Bunker and Ofundem Mbelem.
After winning three games in its first season of IAAM basketball play, Gerstell Academy knew the road to a championship would be long and arduous. There were landmark victories and gut wrenching defeats.
Sunday evening, Gerstell Academy reached the proverbial mountain top. The Falcons defeated John Carroll, 41-39, to win the IAAM B title at Stevenson University.
After receiving the IAAM A Conference basketball championship trophy Sunday afternoon, Ava McKennie couldn’t hold back the tears as her McDonogh School teammates hugged her.
The Eagles won their third title with a 54-53 victory over St. Frances at Stevenson University. Sophomore point guard Autumn Fleary finished with a game-high 27 points for McDonogh (25-4 overall), and Stanford University-bound post Kennedy Umeh added 16 and seven rebounds.
The top-two seeds in all three basketball conferences will compete for championship berths in the semifinal round.
All except one of the elimination games will be held on Thursday at the higher seeds, including No. 1 McDonogh (23-4, 16-0 league) testing fourth-seeded St. Mary’s (20-8, 10-6) and No. 2 St. Frances Academy (18-7, 13-3) facing third-seeded St. Vincent Pallotti (14-10, 12-4) in the A Conference.
Bryn Mawr coach Kate Brendler takes nothing for granted, even when her team is considered to be the odds-on favorite to continue its squash reign.
That was the case on Tuesday at the IAAM finals against Roland Park Country School, a longtime rival that never gives the Mawritians an inch without a fierce battle.