Two years after his cancer diagnosis, coach Tom Noone has a unique perspective: “I’ve never felt better in my life.” In July 2023, Noone, 70, was diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of skin cancer.
Nearly 2,000 Catholic baseball fans across the country cast their votes for an all‐time Catholic baseball all‐star team ballot in a competition hosted this summer by Catholic Athletes for Christ.
Katie Kutz from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington was named the 2021-22 Gatorade Virginia Softball Player of the Year June 9. Kutz is the
WASHINGTON — St. Peter gained the upper hand on St. Patrick’s Day when the underdog team of the small Jesuit school, Saint Peter’s University of
The girls and boys basketball teams from St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly swept the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association Division 1 championships
Junior shortstop Melody Coombs from St. Mary’s Ryken High School in Leonardtown, Md., hit a game-tying two-run homer in the sixth inning and a three-run blast in the eighth inning to power the Knights over Bishop O’Connell High School of Arlington 9-6 in the 2019 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference softball championship. The game was played May 6 at the Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, Md.
Junior shortstop Melody Coombs from St. Mary’s Ryken High School in Leonardtown, Md., hit a game-tying two-run homer in the sixth inning and a three-run blast in the eighth inning to power the Knights over Bishop O’Connell High School of Arlington 9-6 in the 2019 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference softball championship. The game was played May 6 at the Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, Md.
With the season’s title on the line, runners competed at the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference for the cross-country championships at Bull Run Regional Park in Manassas Oct. 26. Returning champions asserted their dominance as Gonzaga College High School in Washington claimed their third straight win in the boys division while St. John’s College High School girls were repeat winners. Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington girls team was runner-up.
The Bishop O’Connell High School Knights in Arlington faced off against the Bishop Ireton High School Cardinals from Alexandria at Witter Field in Alexandria Oct. 18. The Knights won 3-0.
As Catholic chaplain for the Nationals, Msgr. Rossetti, a research professor in pastoral studies, celebrates Mass for the players, coaches and staff on Sundays when they are home. He has two priests who work with him, Father Andrew Fisher, pastor of St. Ambrose Church in Annandale, and Father Quinn Conners, O.Carm., a part-time faculty member in the School of Theology and Religious Studies.
