Sports
The Golf team has been very competitive since Linda Failes took over the head coaching role in 1988. They just wrapped up another District title in 2011 by beating 2nd place Harrisonburg by 66 strokes.
In 2005, the girls basketball team won the Group AA State Championship. In 2010, the girls basketball team finished as Division 4 State Runner-Ups, and in 2011, they finished in the Division 3 State Final Four, losing in the semi-final round to the eventual state champion. They have won back-to-back district titles and were Region III Champions in 2010 and 2011. The girls basketball team is coached by Chris Dodson.
Spotswood cheerleading squad claimed seven straight district titles from 2001-2007, a Region II Championship and runner-up, and two Group AA State Championship Runners-up and a 2007 Region III Finalist. They lost the district title in 2008, however won the crown back in 2009 and 2010. In 2008, they were Region III Runner-Ups and were VHSL AA State Finalists in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
In 2007, 2008, and 2009 the boys cross country team captured the Massanutten District and Region III titles and placed 7th, 4th, and 2nd respectively in the state.
In 2011, the SHS Girls Tennis team won their 11th straight district title. They also won the Region 3 title in 2008 and 2009, mostly from the talents of their star players, Lauren Pandolfi and Deany Westwood. The Boys Tennis Team is also among the best in the district, they have won back-to-back district titles in 2010 and 2011.
The girls swimming team is also a powerhouse. They have won 8 straight district titles and in 2011 were Region III Champions.
In 2008-2009, the boys basketball team was Massanutten District champs, Region III Champs, and were a state finalist. In the 2009-2010 season, the boys varsity basketball team were the Massanutten District Regular Season Champions, along with being the Region III Division 4 Runner-ups, and advanced to the VHSL Division 4 State "Final Four", finishing with a record of 21-5. In the 2010-2011, the Blazers surprised many people by repeating their performance the previous year with a District Tournament Title, being Region III Runner-ups, and again making an appearance to the VHSL Division 3 "Final Four".
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)