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News Archive: April 2007

National Merit Commended Scholars

Juniors Chris Fraser and Brian Zitterkopf have been designated as Commended Scholars by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Based on their October 2006 PSAT scores, these Cadets placed in the top 2% of all eleventh graders in the state of Virginia. The National Merit organization will now move to the next step in the process by selecting students for Semi-Finalist designation in October 2007. Good luck to both of our Commended Scholars in the next phase.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 30, 2007 02:38 PM
General News

Gaines Adams becomes the 10th First Round NFL Draft Pick from FUMA

Gaines Adams was selected as the fourth overall pick of the 2007 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Adams becomes the 10th FUMA alumnus to be selected in the first round of the NFL Draft, following in the steps of these FUMA alums:

2004-Chris Perry
2000-Plaxico Burress
1997-Jim Druckenmiller
1996-Rickey Dudley
1996-Eddie George
1992-Robert Jones
1987-Vinny Testaverde
1982-Mike Quick
1954-Steve Meilinger

For more information on FUMA Alumni in the NFL visit our web page here.

Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Monday, April 30, 2007 11:38 AM
Athletics

Official Race Results - Fork Union 4-Miler

Official Race Results - Fork Union 4-Miler
Sponsored by the Fork Union Village Project

April 28, 2007

Thank you for joining us for the third annual Fork Union 4-Miler!

Prizes are awarded to the top three men, the top three women, and the top three men and women in each age category: 15 and under, 16-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+. All prize winners will be notified separately.

Due to computer program compatibility challenges on race day affecting persons with the same last name - which we sincerely regret - the results may have changed.
Please notify the committee at 434-842-4227 or hitchca@fuma.org, if there are any questions about the posted results.

We hope you enjoyed spending a beautiful day with friends and neighbors and, again, thank you for supporting this volunteer community run. Congratulations to all 136 finishers! Full results are listed below.

Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Monday, April 30, 2007 11:31 AM
General News

Golf vs. Tandem Friends School

The FUMA golf team won its third match of the year against Tandem School. FUMA 171 and Tandem 184. The scoring for Fork Union, Matthew Sullivan 42, Matt Berry 42, Wesley Sherrill 42, and Steven Hurt 45.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 30, 2007 08:10 AM
Athletics

In the Record Books: FUMA scores 3rd straight win at Dogwood

FUMA's track team, lead by Coach Winston Brown, put their mark in the record books with an unprecedented 3rd straight win at the Dogwood Track Classic in Charlottesville this past Saturday.

With a winning score of 72 points, FUMA was more than 21 points ahead of the competition in this large meet that included 95 schools from across the state.

Full article from the Daily Progress here.

Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Sunday, April 29, 2007 01:37 PM
Athletics

Jr. Prep vs. Woodberry Forest

Yesterday the Junior Prep team traveled to Woodberry Forest to a rematch game. While the game was very close until the last inning, FUMA came out on top 8 to 4.

FUMA got on the board early with a two run homer by Thomas Eddins of Green County, VA. The game went back and forth with both teams having opportunities for big innings, but the defense of both teams kept it close. The team used three pitchers in the game to keep arms healthy and to keep the other team off balance. Justin Edell started the game, followed by Russell Bodine. Finally, Taylor Germain closed the game out. In the 6th inning we took a one run lead, then in the 7th inning the bats began to ring and the victory was sealed.

Highlights compliments of Brian Haney

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Thursday, April 26, 2007 06:53 AM
Athletics

Lacrosse game change to schedule for April 28th

The varsity lacrosse game scheduled against Benedictine on Saturday has been changed to a game at Blue Ridge School on Saturday April 28th at 2:00pm.

Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:17 AM
General News

Prep Baseball April 24 game time changed to 5pm

The Prep Baseball game scheduled for Tuesday, April 24, 2007 has been moved an hour later and will start at 5:00pm.

Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:15 AM
General News

FUMA wins Track Classic by 51 points

Fork Union boys ran a US #3 time of 7:47.78 at the Volunteer Track Classic today as they broke the meet record by 15 seconds. FUMA was the runaway winner as Smiths Station (AL) was a distant second in 8:09.49.

Courtesy of Milestat.com

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 08:52 AM
Athletics

Rola wins Volunteer track Classic

Fork Union senior Szymon Rola had a splashing debut in the 2000 meter steeplechase in Friday night's portion of the Volunteer Track Classic at the University of Tennessee. Rola won the race in six seconds with a final time of 6:19.99. Rola's time is only five seconds off the national qualifying time in the event for Nike Outdoor Nationals, but the qualifying time is insignificant to Rola as both Fork Union teammate Axel Mostrag and Rola will be headed back home to Poland at the end of the May and jump into the track championship meet series there. Mostrag competes in the 3200 meter run later this evening with current state leader Peter Dorrell of Blacksburg (9:10 best), while Fork Union will be loading up their outstanding 4x800 meter relay on Saturday in Knoxville.

Courtesy of Brandon Miles, For the remainder of the story go to www.milesplit.com

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 23, 2007 02:55 PM
Athletics

Jr. Prep vs. Collegiate

The Jr. Prep baseball team hosted Collegiate on Thursday, April 19th. The score was 10 to 6 in favor of the visiting team. WThe team played fairly well except for one inning which allowed Collegiate to score 8 or 9 runs. The Blue Devils finally settled down and played a good game. Coach Brian Haney says he sees improvement in this team and he expects a better, final run to the end of the season.

Highlights courtesy of Brian Haney

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 23, 2007 09:05 AM
Athletics

Sydney Johnson (FUMA '93) named new Princeton head basketball coach

Congratulations to another FUMA alumus whose success story began here...

Sydney Johnson, who played here for Coach Arritt in 92-93, has been named the new head basketball coach at Princeton.

Johnson was a four-year starter and three-year captain of the Princeton basketball team following his postgraduate year at FUMA -- the only 3-time captain in Princeton history. He was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 1997 when the Princeton Tigers went undefeated in Ivy League competition.

He played professional basketball in Europe before returning to the states to accept an assistant coaching position at Georgetown where he has coached the past three years. Johnson helped coach Georgetown to a Final Four this season.

Read more here:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1091&dept_id=425696&newsid=18240473&PAG=461&rfi=9

Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Sunday, April 22, 2007 08:26 PM
Alumni

Golf

FUMA won its second match of the year against Christchurch at Laurel Ridge Golf Club 182 to 184. The medalist was Frank Michael who shot a 39. Mathew Sullivan 41, Matt Berry 43, Wesley Sherrill 49, Nik Westmoreland 49, Stephen Hurt 49 and Zachum Top 50.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Friday, April 20, 2007 09:45 AM
Athletics

Prep and Jr. Prep Baseball Today

The games for today on April 19th have been relocated to the Goochland Campus Field at Collegiate. These games will now be played there. The time of both games remains the same.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:21 AM
General News

Ransone's Run: John Ransone Describes the Experience

Just five months ago, John Ransone sought to raise money for FUMA's track program by staging Ransone's Run. COL Ransone, a FUMA alumnus and longtime faculty member, ran from the FUMA campus to the Ragged Mountain Running Shop in Charlottesville - a distance estimated at that time to be 37 miles.

Well, he's done it again.

On Saturday, April 14, 2007, John Ransone completed the second Ransone's Run, this time running from the Ragged Mountain Running Shop back to the FUMA campus, arriving in the middle of the huge Gus Lacy Track Classic being held on campus. And this time, when he actually looked at the odometer of the support vehicle that paced him the entire route, he discovered that the distance actually measured nearly 42 miles, not 37 as originally thought.

Over $2,000 in cash and pledges has been raised so far by this effort -- money that is desperately needed as funds are being raised to resurface the indoor track facility on campus. Nearly $280,000 is needed to undertake this project and the resurfacing is sorely needed in this heavily-used venue.

COL Ransone is seen here at the conclusion of his run with owner of the Ragged Mountain Running Shop, Mark Lorenzoni.

In his own words...
We asked COL Ransone to write down some thoughts about his experience that day, and this is what he had to share:

Having done this run before, I decided to run the other way, that is from C'ville to FUMA. I thought (incorrectly I might add) it would be down hill and much easier. I also believed that since Gilly Clough would be running the whole way with me, it would be easier. Wrong again!

At long long long last, we could see FUMA and when we pushed on until we arrived at the track. As soon as I stopped running, I was stunned at how good I felt and how quickly I started recuperating. I stayed at the meet to watch the pole vault after I thanked and said goodbye to Gilly and Lori.

Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Wednesday, April 18, 2007 04:06 PM
General News

Hokie Hope

Ribbons in the Virginia Tech colors of maroon and burnt orange can be found across campus as FUMA honors those affected by the tragic events on the Virginia Tech campus on April 16, 2007.

Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:22 AM
General News

Prep Baseball vs. Benedictine

The team lost 4-3 against Benedictine in Richmond yesterday. They played well, but just came up on the short side again. Tim Jensen pitched 6 innings holding Benedictine to 4 runs on 7 hits. Matt Riley went 2 for 3 with a homerun, and Josh Brown went 1 for 3 with a RBI.

Highlights courtesy of Ben Paris

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:07 AM
Athletics

Golf vs. Woodberry Forest

The golf team lost to Woodberry Forest 150 to 180 on Tuesday afternoon. Matthew Sullivan shot a 38, Wessley Sherrill 44, Nik Westmoreland 48 and Matt Berry shot a 50.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:04 AM
Athletics

Four Middle School Cadets are Johns Hopkins Scholars

For many years Johns Hopkins University has conducted a nation wide search to identify academically talented young people. Students who scored at or above the 95th percentile on a nationally normed achievement test are invited to participate in the search. These students then take the January SAT and/or ACT exam right along with high school seniors. We were delighted to have ten middle school students eligible to participate in the search this year.

By scoring above the national average for college bound seniors, Davey Brackett, Tim Gaylor, Nate Richardson and Adam VanAlstyne were named Hopkins Scholars for the 2006-2007 school year. The highest congratulations are in order to these fine students. For photos go to FUMA Photos.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Wednesday, April 18, 2007 09:46 AM
General News

Middle School Lacrosse - April 17th Date Changed

The Middle School Lacrosse game originally scheduled for April 17th has been moved to Tuesday, May 8th. The game will be at 3:00 in Richmond, VA against Collegiate.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Friday, April 13, 2007 11:17 AM
General News

FUMA Jr. Prep Baseball vs. Fluvanna

FUMA played Fluvanna last night in a cold drizzle but that did not dampen the spirit of the Fork Union team. Justin Edell started on the mound for FUMA and gave the team four very solid innings. Stephen Maltrotti relieved him and had two good innings that kept the team in the game. With great hitting from both sides and some good defense as well, the game was tied going into the bottom of the 7th inning. Fluvanna scored on a squeeze play with one out to win the game 9 to 8. Notables at the plate include: Russell Bodine with a home run; Tyler Anderson with a ground rule double; and Stephen Maltrotti going 2 for 2 with two singles.

Highlights compliments of Brian Haney

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Thursday, April 12, 2007 09:18 AM
Athletics

FUMA Lacrosse

The lacrosse team won 6-5 in overtime last night against Tandem Friends School. The team was leading in the 4th quarter with 22 seconds to go, when the Blue Devils tied it up. Finally, the team scored with two minutes left in overtime. They will play St. Christopher's on Thursday afternoon in Richmond. Come support our team.

Highlights courtesy of Houston Eldridge

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:53 PM
Athletics

FUMA vs. Woodberry Forest

FUMA lost the golf match with Woodberry Forest 181 to 168. Matthew Sullivan and Tim Frazier were the medalist shooting a 39 on the back nine at Laurel Ridge. Matt Berry shot a 41, Zachum Topp shot a 50, and Nik Westmorland finished the scoring with a 51.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:41 PM
Athletics

Middle School Lacrosse Cancelled - Friday, 4/13

The middle school game against Tandem has been cancelled on Friday, April 13th. A rescheduled date has not been set at this time.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 09:30 AM
General News

Christian Walker's Interview on AFR 89.7 FM radio

Christian Walker recently recorded an interview with AFR 89.7 FM in Richmond. You can listen to the interview, or download it to listen to on your iPod or mp3 audio device.

Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:05 PM
General News

Mostrag Struggles, but FUMA finishes 2nd at Arcadia

Axel Mostrag did not have the race that he had hoped for in California as he finished seventh in the invitational mile (a field of 14) at the Arcadia Invitational in a time of 4:14.80. Mostrag ran boxed in lane 1 for the majority of the race and race winner Michael Chinchar was able to build enough breathing room on the competition before the final lap to hold for the win in 4:09.67. Mostrag did not have his customary deadly kick down the stretch as he finished behind a pack of others following Chinchar. Nonetheless, Mostrag's time is a state leading performance thus far this spring.

Quite impressive for Fork Union to run a DMR without their 3:52 1500 meter stud in Axel Mostrag and still run a sub 10:20 time as they did at Arcadia with the team of Jamie Reichlen, Curtis Pride, Jeremy Haney, and Szymon Rola with a runner-up time of 10:19.22. No word on splits yet, but it is likely that Rola had to have gone under 4:20 for Fork Union's 1600 meter anchor leg to have finished less than two seconds off their Nike Indoor Nationals time in which Axel Mostrag split a 4:11 on anchor.

Courtesy of Milestat.com

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Tuesday, April 10, 2007 03:36 PM
Athletics

Admissions Open House - Saturday, May 5th

Please join the Admissions Staff on Saturday, May 5th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. to learn more about enrolling your son at Fork Union Military Academy. Summer School and Fall 2007 applications are now being accepted. The open house will be held in the Beatty Library on the FUMA campus. We hope you will come to visit us on Saturday, May 5th during Alumni Weekend.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:23 AM
General News

Middle School Awards and Graduation

The following informaton has been posted on the For Parents section of the website. Middle School activities and graduation are held on Wednesday, May 23rd and Thursday, May 24th.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:11 AM
General News

Jr. Prep Baseball

FUMA played at Saint Christopher's in a cold wind. FUMA started with Russell Bodine on the mound. He did a good job after the first inning, the mound was about 2' high and that took some time to figure out. Thomas Eddins relieved Bodine for the last two innings and pitched very well. The team played pretty good defense against a team that hits very well. Our bats failed to score enough runs to stay in the game. Saint Christopher won this contest 7 to 2.

Highlights courtesy of Brian Haney

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 9, 2007 12:45 PM
Athletics

FUMA Golf

The golf team lost to VES at Oakwood Country Club 195 to 163. Mike Murray from VES was the medalist with a 36. FUMA's lowest score was a 43 by Matt Berry, Matthew Sullivan shot a 44, Stephen Hurt shot a 52, and Nik Westmoreland shot a 56.

Highlights courtesy of Mike Donahue

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 9, 2007 12:44 PM
Athletics

Axel Mostrag to attend Arcadia Invitational

Axel Mostrag will be flying across the country this week to test himself in possibly his lone opportunity to bust a fast mile time while in the states at the Arcadia Invitational. Meanwhile, Mostrag will be featured on a loaded distance medley relay for Fork Union that will also be competing in California. Three other Virginians will also be competing against many of the nation's best athletes from one of the best states for high school track and field in California. David Fleenor will be on-site for photo coverage at Arcadia of the Virginian athletes.

Excerpt courtesy of va.milesplit.com

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Thursday, April 5, 2007 08:34 AM
Athletics

Upper School Awards and Graduation Exercises

For a full list of the events for May 25 & 26, please go to the website under Parent Resources & Networking.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Wednesday, April 4, 2007 11:12 AM
General News

Jr. Prep Baseball Wins Against Woodberry Forest

The team had a rocky start to the game, but as always, they hung in their and hit the ball well. They showed good improvement on the base running skills. The final score was 19 to 7 in our favor in five innings. FUMA got 4 solid innings out of Ron Berscak on the mound and he was relieved by Taylor Germain. Everyone got to play in our first win this season. The next game is scheduld for Thursday, April 5th at St Christopher's in Richmond.

Highlights Courtesy of Coach Brian Haney

Brian Haney

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Wednesday, April 4, 2007 10:46 AM
Athletics

Last Orienteering Meet of Year

"I think I can say that we had a fun time this weekend," states Carl Muench. "The boys acquitted themselves well, finishing 6th out of 11 varsity teams. It was not our best finish ever, but considering the health and experience level we brought to the meet, I was very pleased." The Orienteering Team traveled to Fair Hill, MD this weekend for the National Championship.

Aleks Peterson spearheaded the effort. He finished 9th overall, but this does not show the entire perspective. Places 3-10 were less than 4 minutes apart after 13 km through the woods and 2 days of competition. Aleks was right up there with the best.

Running on sore knees, Dale Helm had a gutty performance placing him 17th overall. He was a great inspiration to all the guys on the team. John Warren was our third runner. As a sophomore at his first interscholastic event, he kept his wits about him and gave a very credible performance.

Kyle Pape completed varsity courses both days. Kyle has been at the sport less than a year. He has made remarkable progress. Adam Welsh completed varsity courses as only a freshman. His improvement and growth has also been wonderful to watch.

On the Middle School front, Adam Van Alstyne finished 12 of 39 competitors in the Intermediate category. This is very respectable, especially since Adam is a 7th grader and the most of the field is 9th graders.

For photos of the meet go to FUMA Photos

Highlights courtesy of Carl Muench

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Tuesday, April 3, 2007 03:04 PM
Athletics

Christian Walker to appear on American Family Radio

Christian Walker, the Embassy Music recording artist appearing in concert at FUMA on Thursday, April 12th, will be appearing on American Family Radio's 89.7 FM in Richmond on April 9, 2007 at 5:30pm for an interview about his music and this upcoming concert.

You can listen online to this interview at the radio station's web site, afrrichmond.net, to hear this interview. We will post the interview on our web site after it airs, in case you miss its broadcast.

The radio station is also giving away Christian Walker CDs this week, so listen to find out how you might win one.

Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Tuesday, April 3, 2007 11:12 AM
General News

Phonathon to Continue Again Tonight

The cadets will be hard at work on the phones again this evening, Monday, April 2nd. They are trying to reach the goal of $100,000. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, for the past two weeks, the team has been diligently calling alumni and parents asking for donations to help our Annual Giving Fund at the Academy. Many of the cadets have heard some amusing stories from alumni and they have thanked each and every individual that has given to this fundraising event.

So far, the team has received $92,916 in pledges and the money has started coming in with $26,815 received to date. A total of 550 parents and alumni have supported our cadets during the Phonathon. The Development Office wishes to thank our donors for their participation.

It is also a competition amongst the cadets to see who has the highest total each night. So far the top three cadets have been Cadets LaCour, Atassi, and Yonce. Each of the team members deserves a pat on the back for their hard work every night. For photos go to FUMA Photos.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 2, 2007 03:32 PM
General News

Cadets prepare Blankets of Hope

Blankets of Hope is sponsored by Soldier's Angels. Recently each company at FUMA purchased a blanket to decorate and send to our wounded soldiers in Iraq. The Echo Company actually purchased four blankets to prepare for the military overseas.

Bev Hanlin, Community Coordinator at FUMA, helped organize this project for the cadets and Suzanne Grant, wife of Bob Grant, was kind enough to embroider each blanket with Fork Union Military Academy and the name of each company. The cadets then signed their names and some even wrote messages to the soldiers. The blankets will be sent to California where they will be packed into back packs and distributed in Iraq. "We hope that these blankets will be a comfort to the recipients and we all hope and pray that there will not be a need for too many of them," says Mrs. Hanlin. "The students of FUMA were excited about this project and we are very proud of them for their participation."

Photos of the blankets are posted on FUMA Photos. Anyone wishing to purchase a blanket can do so by going to www.soldiersangels.org and clicking on Blankets of Hope.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 2, 2007 02:43 PM
General News

FUMA Faculty & Staff in Richmond's 10K Race

"Some came to win. Others came for fun. And plenty of the 25,023 people who ran or walked the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10K made somebody proud." (Excerpt from Richmond Times Dispatch)

Of those 25,000 people, 5 were participants from Fork Union Military Academy - Lynn Armstrong, John Ransone, Matt Donohue, Melissa Barber and Dick Washington. They ran in the Richmond Monument Avenue 10K on Saturday, March 31st. Lynn Armstrong, FUMA Librarian, won her age group. These members of the faculty and staff are very active and participate in many races throughout the year. It wouldn't suprise us if we even saw them (among many others) in the upcoming Fork Union 4-Miler on Saturday, April 28th.

For more information on the 10K go to Richmond Times Dispatch.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 2, 2007 01:39 PM
Athletics

FUMA vs. Collegiate in Golf

The medalist from Collegiate was Rob Gorrell with a 36. FUMA's lowest score was a 40 by Matthew Sullivan followed by Wes Sherrill with a 50, Zachum Topp 52 and Stephen Hurt 53. Collegiate 161 and FUMA 195

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 2, 2007 08:33 AM
Athletics

FUMA Golf

FUMA picked up its first win of the season against Covenant School at Glenmore Country Club. FUMA 170 and Covenant 172. Matt Berry was the medalist with a 38, Matthew Sullivan shot a 39, Nik Westmorland 46 and Zachum Topp 47.

Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Monday, April 2, 2007 08:30 AM
Athletics