Sports
Western Albemarle offers programs, for both boys and girls, in many sports. In 2007, Western won the Wachovia Cup, an award given to the school with the best all around athletic program in the state of Virginia. The school belongs to the Jefferson District of Region II of the Virginia High School League. The Albemarle track team, in 2011, sent several relay teams to the national track competition. In 2004-2005, the school won 21 district, regional, and state championships.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
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Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)