Congratulations to Kyonte Hamilton '21 on clinching his second National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA) title after a dominant 7-0 win in the finals.
Hamilton, along with Alex Munoz '22 and Carter Tinsley '22, participated in the 30th Annual NHSCA High School Nationals the last weekend of March in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The annual tournament showcases many elite wrestlers from across the nation. Nearly 5,000 wrestlers participated in this year's event.
Congratulations, Kyonte!
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Junhee Lee '20 has qualified for the USA Mathematical Olympiad, one of the most prestigious awards for high school students in the United States.
The USA Mathematical Olympiad begins with the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC), the first of a series of competitions in secondary school mathematics that determine the U.S. team for the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). The Georgetown Prep Math Club took the exam in February 2019, and Lee scored in the top 3 percent on the exam with a score of 144/150.
Junhee then qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), which he took over Spring Break in South Korea. The AIME is the second of two tests used to determine qualification for the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad.
Junhee's score on the AIME has qualified him for the USA Mathematical Olympiad, which will take place April 17 and 18, 2019. From this next qualification stage, 12 students will be invited to the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program to represent the U.S. at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
The AMC is the pinnacle mathematics competition for high school students across the country. Junhee is currently in a pool of roughly 300 students that began with over 50,000 students.
Congratulations, Junhee!
Georgetown Prep varsity baseball pitcher Ryan Gleason '19 threw a no-hitter Tuesday afternoon against St. Albans. Gleason struck out 14 batters in seven no-hit innings.
Prep would go to beat St. Albans, 7-0, to improve to 16-4 on the season and 3-0 in Interstate Athletic Conference (I.A.C.) league play. The Hoyas will travel to Northwest, Washington, D.C., to take on St. Albans this Thursday, April 11 at 4:30 p.m.
Brian and Carolyn Ridgway '89, P'18, '21, Chet and Candace Thompson '86, P'21, and Dave and Jennifer Whipp P'21 co-chaired this year's Gala on Saturday, April 6 on the Georgetown Prep campus.
The Hanley Center's Field House was transformed into a festive party as over 450 members of the Prep community gathered to celebrate all that is great about Georgetown Prep. This year's Raise the Paddle cause directly supports the newly established Gary Daum Endowed Scholarship. This scholarship has been in honor of Gary Daum who passed away in February this year. The scholarship will be presented annually to a deserving Georgetown Prep student who, in addition to academic achievement, demonstrates commitment to and engagement in the fine arts and who might not be able to attend Georgetown Prep for lack of means.
Prep parents, alumni, faculty and staff enjoyed a great dinner, spirited live auction, and a musical performance by Kristen & the Noise. Rob Clark '87, P'19 served as this year's Master of Ceremonies for the third consecutive year.
Thanks to all the generous sponsors and attendees who supported the 2019 Spring Gala!
Sponsors
Premier Gala Underwriters
Michael J. Bidwill '83
Jim Boland '74
Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul II '50
Band Underwriters
Patrick '88 and Sheryl Christmas
Jim Coleman Automotive
Bar Underwriters
Jeff and Lisa Gottshall
Reyes Beverage Group
St. Ignatius Sponsors
Dan Christovich and Lisa Kazor-Christovich
Paul '86 and Beth Colonna
Tom '87 and Angela Reyes
Chet '86 and Candace Thompson
Brave Trailblazer Sponsors
Panera Bread
Rob and Kathryn Stewart
Silent Solutions
Fearless Flame Sponsors
American Combustion Industries
Mike '86 and Sonia Barros
Castle Sprinkler and Alarm, Inc.
DATAWATCH/Admiral Security
Denis and Sara Dwyer
The Plamondon Companies
Brian '89 and Carolyn Ridgway
Rick and Michelle Scurfield
Urgo Hotels
Beacon of Hope Sponsors
AMR Commercial
Bill and Stephanie Angrick
Philip and Maureen Dolan
David Donohoe '81
Howard and Stephanie Heiss
Walter and Amber Hsu
Matheson Law Firm, PA
John and Anne McAllister
Bill and Kerry Parsons
Steve and Holly Standefer
Stohlman Automotive
Luminous Light Sponsors
George and Rosina Aguiar
Anthony and Donna Aquino
Sean and Heather Boyle
Bryan '86 and Susan Brewer
Mark '77 and Linda Brown
David and Tara Della Rocca
Steve and Lisa Feyerick
Daniel Gerkin and Allyson Bloom
Chris Itteilag '04, Washington Fine Properties
Marc and Carol Khoury
Susan Lacz
John and Terry Lavoie
David and Linda Little
Steve and Jenifer Luck
Kreag and Deborah Maloy
Tom and Jeanette McHale
Tim and Catherine Morris
Bill and Susan Pappert
Safa Rifka
Chris Roberts and Josephine Gambardella
Megan Rupp
Nicholas and Nancy Triandafilou
Dean and Sarah Walter
Jian Liu and Maggie Wang
Dave and Jennifer Whipp
Faculty Sponsors
Todd and Lourdes Daubert
Moe Danaie and Shabnam Foroughi
Dennis '86 and Denise DuFour
Tom and Ande McCally
Tim and Mary McCann
Stephen and Kathleen Mullery
Mike and Christy Prame
John and Matty Sateri
Frank and Genie Strong
Nicholas Tambakis and Cornelia Pappas
In Kind Sponsors
GIGS
Perfect Settings
Philippa Tarrant Floral Design
Ridgewells Catering
Syzygy Events
General Sponsors
John and Kitty Adams
Rollin and Lisa Bell
GP Parent Board
Chris Roberts and Josephine Gambardella
Stephen Spencer '76
The Georgetown Prep Hall of Fame Class of 2019 was honored at the Induction Ceremony on Friday, April 12. Over 370 family, friends, alumni, and past inductees convened in the Hanley Center for Athletic Excellence's arena to celebrate their achievements.
Twelve individuals and two teams were inducted:
Follow the link to read more about the Hall of Fame Class of 2019.
Robert Clark '87, P'19 was the evening's master of ceremonies, and each inductee spoke movingly about their Georgetown Prep and athletic experiences.
Congratulations to the Hall of Fame Class of 2019!
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Rev. James R. Van Dyke, S.J., Georgetown Prep's president, was the keynote speaker at the Loyola Club of Washington, D.C., Luncheon on April 11. Fr. Van Dyke was introduced by Denis Dwyer, chair of the School's Board of Trustees.
According to the organization's website, "The Loyola Club gathers Jesuit-educated alums and friends for food, fellowship and inspiration. The Loyola Club probes ways to apply Jesuit Spirituality in our everyday lives and to use it as a means to strengthen our communities."
Fr. Van Dyke's talk was titled "Men and Women for-and-with Others Toward a Culture of Conversation."
Read the text of Fr. Van Dyke's remarks below.
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I was thinking the other day of one of my favorite moments in grad school. Grad school? Favorite moment? Those two do seem a little incommensurate, don't they? But you have to understand that my experience of grad school—at least what I think of as grad school—was very different. I had the good fortune to do the Graduate Institute at St. John's College in Annapolis over a series of four summers. Yes, I admit it: I am a Great Books nerd. I spent four happy summers at reading camp. I'm a card-carrying member of Aristotelians Anonymous. And I read Platonic dialogues for their dramatic content.
Anyhow, the moment came during one of the best summers I have ever spent doing anything. We had been studying Math and Natural Science, reading such heart-pounders as Plato's Timaeus and Descartes' Discourse on Method. On Friday and Saturday nights we would play Risk or Diplomacy—games so good that by the end of the evening we were all ready for the sacrament of reconciliation. And at the end of the summer I recall composing a ditty entitled "Somewhere over My Euclid" on the back of a bar napkin. I do still have that bar napkin somewhere, by the way, though I only remember, for obvious reasons, a few lines of the brilliant composition as it was performed at our annual Greek Dinner:
Somewhere over my Euclid
Lines are straight;
Da da da da da da da
Gee-ometry is great!
Now we did actually work very hard that summer, though, struggling together through tomes such as Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Harvey's On the Circulation of the Blood, Aristotle's Physics, and Euclid's Elements. That last one—the Elements—by the way, was an enigma...we worked with the original, trying to understand what Euclid was pointing to and how it all added up, working out each of the propositions. And when we got to Lobachevski toward the end of the summer...well, after puzzling for several days we finally walked—actually walked—the Lobachevskian parallels. If you know what I'm talking about, you know that Lobachevskian parallels are impossible, but we walked them. Together.
So, towards the end of the summer our tutor, Mr. Pastille, stopped us with a question about halfway through class: What is the point of this, he asked; why are we doing this? A good question; none of us were math or science teachers, after all. This stuff we were studying had no practical application in our lives. Yet day after day we got together and worked our way through it, and on Thursdays after seminar we argued late into the night about Euclid over beers at the Ram's Head or Harry Brown's. Why were we doing this?
The next hour or so of conversation was one of the most fascinating I have ever engaged in. Every epistemological reason to study, to learn, that humanity has ever imagined came forth in the comments of my fellow grad students. The beauty of learning, the beauty of the content itself, the utility of learning new languages and new ways of thinking, the importance of reasoning things through, of learning the possibilities and the limitations of human logic—all were there on the table. And yet, it was not enough. These were all true, but they were not sufficient. Finally, one of my classmates opined quietly that the real point was that we had done exactly what Plato suggests in the Meno is the singularly most important thing human beings can do: we had learned together. In a world of points-of view, we had labored towards common understandings. And as Mr. Pastille pointed out, in a world confronted with so many critical problems, the ability to sit and converse with one another—to think about every angle, to listen to one another and respond, to come to common understandings, to connect the dots if you'll pardon and Euclidean pun—these were the skills needed if human—truly human—culture is to continue to grow and to thrive.
That was a long time ago, now...a quarter of a century ago. Happily, many of us card carrying-members of Aristotelians Anonymous remain good friends and continue to share jokes and articles and commentary, as well as family pictures—thank God for social media! But the point haunts me. That was a quarter of a century ago—long before the age of tweetstorms and callings-out, before doxing, before viral videos, alternative facts, and all the toxic nonsense we have unfortunately become too accustomed to, even inured to.
Now, I don't raise these memories to evoke a sense of nostalgia; 1994 was no Golden Age. I noticed the other day that this week we are remembering the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. No, I recall them because they offer a challenge—a challenge to me and to all of us who claim the Jesuit and Ignatian tradition as our own—that lofty concept of Men and Women for-and-with Others.
Men and Women for-and-with Others: we all know what that means—those wonderful occasions of service that we experienced in high school and college, those opportunities when we can pitch in a little more, those occasions when we can go out of our way to do something nice or good for someone, especially someone in need. It's a great slogan. It's even one that we can take into our professional lives—committing our work and our work places to service. I can't tell you how many Jesuit educated lawyers I know who offer pro bono services, and Jesuit educated doctors and dentists and nurses who even take chunks of time annually to serve in third world countries and call it vacation. I can't tell you how proud I am of all the Jesuit-educated friends and former students who have gone into teaching; they could do anything they want but they go into teaching, and not just in our relatively comfortable Jesuit high schools, but in grammar schools, and public schools, and Nativity schools, and in Cristo Rey schools. They take on the challenge, and not because it pays well, or because it's terribly satisfying (it frequently is not) but because there is a genuine and crying need. And that is good. It is all admirable and good.
But if it stops there, we really are missing the point that Fr. Arrupe was making in his address to the Jesuit alumni of Europe where he coined the phrase back in 1973. For these wonderful efforts, though truly wonderful, are all external. But something more, something greater, something far more difficult is asked: an internal conversion—a repentance, as it were—a rethinking, which is what repentance means from its Latin roots. For Fr. Arrupe is not just thinking about the things we do but also the people we are, the people we are becoming. Hence the entire talk is written not as a lesson from a teacher, but as a reflection from a fellow seeker. Its emphasis is always on the we, on all of us together, rather than on the individual hero. Its driving force is towards a justice that is coterminous with humanization, even as the justice of God is revealed in the humanity of the Christ. Reminiscent of the "Contemplation on the Love of God" from the Exercises, its focus is on our laboring for-and-with one another in the very way that God labors for-and-with us for our salvation. We can and should be working for justice in our world, but not sacrificing persons for our causes. Rather, persons—humanization, to use Arrupe's term—must be the cause itself. Or to paraphrase Dickens, mankind must be our business.
Why is this so important?
I think it is because it offers the more excellent way—the way of love, to quote St. Paul (1 Cor 12:31)—in contrast to something that is increasingly unjust in our world—what Arrupe refers to as a downward spiral—which is the profoundly negative and cynical way people imagine one another, speak of one another, and treat one another—the world that is increasingly divided between progressives and conservatives, allies and enemies, "deplorables" and right-thinking people, my friends and those people. It is a world marked by echo chambers and soundbytes and tweets and posts. What it excludes is conversation...respect...friendship...love. Not mere tolerance and dialogue in the fashion of our secular day, but genuine conversation, genuine respect, genuine friendship, genuine love.
To be truthful, none of this is new. If you read the life of Ignatius, you realize that in his various peregrinations around Europe, he is wandering through the wars of religion. And his first companions...they are each one of them from the warring countries, even Francis Xavier whose brothers were manning the cannons that fired on Pamplona even as Ignatius was defending it in May 1521. War, animosity, division, enmity are nothing new. But what is new is that these guys, in a warring world, managed to become friends—truly and deeply friends—indeed, brothers to one another. And it was not because they were necessarily easy people to get along with; there's funny stories about that. Rather it was a common understanding that they had about God and about their call, a common understanding that is at the very root of Arrupe's call for us to be men and women for-and-with others. It is best summarized as Ignatius states it in the Spiritual Exercises:
...let it be presupposed that every good Christian is to be more ready to save his neighbor's proposition than to condemn it. If he cannot save it, let him inquire how he means it; and if he means it badly, let him correct him with charity. If that is not enough, let him seek all the suitable means to bring him to mean it well, and save himself.
Notice what Ignatius highlights here: To be ready to save rather than to condemn, to inquire, to correct but only with charity, to seek suitable means...to mean it well and to save. The language is so different from that of Ignatius' day, when the means of communication on religious matters were frequently enough imprisonment and interrogation, as Ignatius himself knew too well from his experiences with the Spanish Inquisition. This is how Ignatius encourages his companions to help souls—in conversation that is disposed towards understanding rather than dismissal, towards relationship rather than argument, towards salvation rather than condemnation. It is so much in contrast to the tracts, anathemas, and screeds of his own day, and so very much in contrast to the tweets, the posts, and the soundbytes of our own.
And this is where I think Jesuit education and Ignatian spirituality—and all of us here—need to make our contribution. We need to commit ourselves to the re-humanization of discourse in our time, the creation of conversation—conversation which was so instrumental to Ignatius' own apostolic work, which was fundamental to the principles of discernment and to the founding of the Society of Jesus. Conversation that can indeed lead to common understandings but more importantly to relationship. Conversation which is precisely the forgetting of self in the engagement with the other. Conversation, not debate, not even dialogue. Conversation because it witnesses to the ongoing loving conversation that God has with God's creation, that God has with us, that God has with each of us.
It is very easy to do service projects. It is very easy to sign on to a cause. It is very easy to write a check. It's easy to introduce those ideas into our work places. But to engage ourselves in relationship—to go beyond the external and to let ourselves be affected—to, in high philosophical language, encounter the other as such, to allow ourselves to be transformed—that is what Arrupe is talking about. If we are not doing that we are, in fact, perpetuating that most unjust structure of all, that of our own habitual ego which makes everything we do about me.
Practically, what does this mean? The past several General Congregations has used language suggesting the relationships that Jesuit apostolates should promote among their staffs. Terms such as colleagueship, collaboration, and partnership were originally used to indicate a growing sense that the Jesuits, who had always controlled the institutions, should be working more closely with lay people. More recently, however, there has been a recognition of a further implication of these words, namely that collaboration, partnership, and colleagueship are not merely nice things that ought to happen in Jesuit apostolates but that indeed they are essential characteristics of Jesuit apostolic work. Indeed, they are constitutive of our work. Put most simply, in our partnership, collaboration, and colleagueship, we witness to the way God works with humanity, not imposing but accompanying, not from a distance at all (with apologies to Bette Midler) but in the very thick of it. Indeed, in our collaboration with one another—engaging in our common work, contributing our insights, receiving what others bring to the table, bearing the load for one another—we are doing nothing less than bringing that love of God that Ignatius speaks about in the "Contemplation on the Love of God" to life in the world for one another. This is not about the relationship of Jesuits to those other people, but about all of us! About our relationship with one another. Put incredibly succinctly, when we work with one another—really work with one another—we are working with God for the salvation of each other and the world.
Now, that's a lovely vision, but if you think about it, it's not as easy as it seems at first glance. I know that I am no picnic, and anyone who works with me—well, sainthood can't be too far off. Interestingly enough, after his initial and brutally penitential fervor, Ignatius steered more and more away from the traditional penances of fasting, brutal bodily mortifications, hairshirts, and all night prayer vigils and directed himself more towards that challenge of charity towards others. So strong was this impulse that in both the Exercises and in his other writings, Ignatius directs that a retreatant needs explicit permission to take on any of the traditional penances, as does a Jesuit. Dealing with people, dealing with the actual struggles of being human in a human community, dealing with others as such—these are the fora in which grace is found.
So where does that leave us? The Second Vatican Council emphasizes that we must read the signs of the times, echoing the admonition of Jesus (Mt 16:3). And to be honest, the signs of our times are pretty glaring—signs of bitterness, alienation, estrangement, anger, and hopelessness. And we do not need to look far to see them; they are very close at hand—perhaps more so in this city that in many other places. So while it is good that we do those wonderful service projects—those works that the Epistle of James commands us to—for they are works that bring hope, and hope is not to be sneezed at, there is so much more to be done. While it is good to see the feel-good stories—and my school is certainly replete with them in our service programs and the ethic of service we promote—we have to begin to address those other signs. For if faith without works is dead, works without respect...friendship...love... such works, as St. Paul reminds us, are hollow.
And so there is a challenge, a new challenge before us. Arrupe writes at the end of his introduction:
Today our prime...objective must be to form men and women-for-others; men and women who will live not for themselves but for God and his Christ — for the God-man who lived and died for all the world; men who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men and women completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for men is a farce.
And this is, and always has been finally true. But now the challenge before us is to understand what it is that has emerged in our own time: that a justice which is not filled with love—love that is finally the love of God, God's love for us each and all—is finally not just, not for others, not for ourselves.. It is not AMDG, just more AMDMe. A justice that remains captive to that cruelest of captors, that darkest of prisons—the ego.
So finally what I am talking about in the end is a challenge to us all—it certainly is for me. It is not a call to the correct causes, to the good projects, to the right side of history—those these are good calls—but to a personal re-humanization—a personal conversion to remember who I am and who others really are, a personal commitment to remember that I and all those I love—all those I encounter—are at once both dust as we were reminded on Ash Wednesday and at the same time sons and daughters of God and brothers and sisters to Jesus. Without this—this critical piece—Men and Women for-and-with Others will remain a posture, external, a powerful but finally shallow slogan in a world of shallow slogans. But with the embrace of the reality of who we are—the dust of the earth so beloved by God—we become friends: our appraisals of each other become both just and tender. We speak with each other as friends, which is precisely how in the Exercises Ignatius suggests that we should speak with Christ crucified: exactly as one friend speaks to another.
AMDG
Final exams for the 2018-19 academic year will take place Tuesday, May 28 through Friday, May 31.
Students should report to exams in dress code.
Exams count for 25% of the second semester grade.
Tuesday, May 28
Wednesday, May 29
Thursday, May 30
Friday, May 31
The 2019 varsity golf team and Coach Bob Barry won the Interstate Athletic Conference (I.A.C.) Tournament Championship on April 23 at Worthington Manor Golf Club in Urbana, Maryland.
The team finished with the championship round with a cumulative score of 380, 24 strokes better than second-place Bullis (404).
Keegan Shreeves '19 made a birdie on the eighteenth hole to finish his round tied for the lead with a 74. Shreeves birdied the playoff hole to win the individual I.A.C. title. Read The Washington Post's recap of the Tournament Championship.
Shreeves and four of his Prep teammates finished in the top-ten to earn All I.A.C. honors. Zach Maloy '21 finished third overall with a score of 75. Classmate Joe Hemsley '21 finished tied for fourth with a score of 76 while Gus Haglund '19 and Gary Bullard '19 finished the championship round with scores of 77 and 78, respectively.
Congratulations to Coach Bob Barry and the 2019 varsity golf team!
Two Georgetown Prep students recently received honors in the 2019 Model Arab League conference at Georgetown University. The Model Arab League is the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations' flagship student leadership development program.
Sophomores Tomas Beariault '21 (pictured left) and Greyson Kiondo '21 represented Lenanon and Libya, respectively, in the Economic Affairs committee. Both students received Distinguished Delegate awards for their performance.
Congratulations, Tomas and Greyson!
Dear Members of the Georgetown Prep Community,
May is always a busy month at Georgetown Preparatory School. The campus is abuzz with the final weeks of class, AP Exams, and of course, the I.A.C. athletic playoffs. And the class of 2019 is getting ready for their Baccalaureate Mass and Graduation on May 24-25 − our 220th Commencement Exercises – and the challenges of college and life beyond Prep. We have much to be thankful for as we near the end of our 230th year of forming men for and with others.
While the academic year is winding down, the work of sustaining Georgetown Prep continues. Today, I write to introduce a new challenge to support the Georgetown Prep Annual Fund: The 1789 Challenge. The goal for this challenge is for 1,789 members of the School community to make a contribution to this year's Annual Fund by June 30, 2019.
All gifts support student achievement, scholarships and financial aid, and operating costs not met through tuition and fees; our tuition only covers two thirds of the cost of the outstanding educational opportunities we offer.
Last year, Georgetown Prep's alumni, current and past parents, and friends contributed over $625,000 from 1,650 individuals. This May and June, our goal is to surpass last year's 42% alumni and 70% parent participation, which would make the Georgetown Prep Annual Fund one of the most impressive among independent schools. And, with your help, we can reach our goal!
Visit this link to make a gift online.
If you have already contributed to this year's Annual Fund, on behalf of all of us at Georgetown Prep, I thank you for your continued support.
Georgetown Prep could not be the outstanding secondary institution it is without your generosity and support. As President, I see your generosity at work day in and day out in our classrooms, on our athletic fields, on the stage, in the Chapel, and in our service and retreat programs. It is a great grace in my Jesuit life. Thank you for all that you do and continue to do for Georgetown Prep. Through your goodness, John Carroll's 230-year-old vision is ever more fully realized at Georgetown Preparatory School.
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. James R. Van Dyke, S.J.
President
Coach Scott Urick and the 2019 Georgetown Prep varsity lacrosse team won the Interstate Athletic Conference (I.A.C.) regular season championship on April 30 with an 11-10 win at Bullis.
Prep and Bullis both entered the game undefeated in I.A.C. league play. The Hoyas led 2-0 early in the first quarter and led for most of the first half before Bullis tied the game at four right before halftime. In the third quarter, Prep scored first to take a 5-4 lead. Bullis scored six unanswered goals to take a 10-5 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
In the fourth quarter, Prep mounted a remarkable comeback and scored five straight goals to tie the game at 10 with less than two minutes remaining in the game. On Prep's next offensive possession, Finn Muldoon '19 found Zach Whittier '21 for the go-ahead goal on an extra man opportunity with 1:41 remaining in the game. The Hoyas held on for the 11-10 victory. Whittier led the Hoyas with three goals. Follow the link to read The Washington Post's recap of the game.
In only his third season, Coach Urick has led Prep to its first I.A.C. title since 2014. The Hoyas have earned the number one seed in the I.A.C. Tournament and a first-round bye. Prep will host the winner of the St. Stephen's & St. Agnes and St. Albans in the I.A.C. semifinals on Tuesday, May 7.
Prep is 14-3 for the year and 5-0 in I.A.C. conference play.
Congratulations to Georgetown Prep's baseball, basketball, football, golf, lacrosse, rugby, and swimming and diving seniors who signed their collegiate letters of intent on May 1.
Twenty Prep seniors and their families took part in a signing day ceremony in the Haas Humanities Building's Figge Foyer. Rev. James R. Van Dyke, S.J., Prep's president, congratulated the seniors on their accomplishments. He added, "Make sure you take the lessons you learned here at Prep with you to college and to your life beyond: the lessons of dedication, commitment, collaboration, hard work, and personal excellence. They will make all the difference in college, but they become even more important in your life after that; whether you're working with your patients, your congregation, your clients, your employees, or your boss - whoever it may be. But it will be even more important when other people will depend on you, the family you hope to have one day."
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The first Georgetown Prep Art Exhibition is currently open in Boland Hall's Robert Southwell, S.J., Library. The art show is a representation of the year's hard work of all of the art students.
Represented in the art show are all of the arts courses taught here at Georgetown Prep: Freshman Art, Foundations of Studio Art (the full-year Freshman art course), Methods and Materials (sophomores), AP 1 and AP 2 Studio, AP 2-D, digital photography and Graphic Design.
Prep's two AP Art students presented a small representation of the work produced for their AP portfolio and also an artist statement. Prep also showcased two events that Prep art students participated in with Stone Ridge students - the Raku firing event here at Prep and a field trip to the Cherry Blossom Festival.
The art show is in memory of Mr. Gary Daum and the front panel of the exhibit showcases an arrangement of sunrises and sunsets that were submitted by staff and faculty.
The Georgetown Prep varsity baseball team and Coach Chris Rodriguez won the 2019 Interstate Athletic Conference (I.A.C.) regular season title on May 4 with a 14-3 win over Landon.
The Hoyas went undefeated in conference play sweeping their regular season series against Bullis, Episcopal High School, Landon, St. Albans, and St. Stephen's & St. Agnes. Prep outscored their I.A.C. opponents 99-16 in ten league games. The Hoyas' defense posted three shutouts, including Ryan Gleason '19's no-hitter against St. Albans, and allowed more than three runs only once in conference play.
The Hoyas enter the I.A.C. tournament as the conference's one seed. Prep will host the I.A.C. semifinals on Wednesday, May 8, at 4:30 p.m. The Hoyas will play the winner of the Bullis – Landon game.
Prep's overall record is now 28-5 and 10-0 in the I.A.C.
Photo: DC Sports Fan
The 2019 varsity baseball team and Coach Chris Rodriguez won the Interstate Athletic Conference (I.A.C.) tournament championship on May 11 with two wins against St. Albans. Prep won the I.A.C. regular season title going a perfect 10-0 in league play.
The Hoyas earned the tournament's number one seed and defeated Bullis, 14-0, in the conference semifinals on May 8 to advance to the I.A.C. championship best of three series against St. Albans.
St. Albans hosted a championship series doubleheader on May 11 due to wet conditions on Prep's field. The Hoyas' offense paced the team in the opening game. Travis Rinker '19 hit a home run and Charlie Furlong '19 reached base in all of his at bats. Prep pitcher Ryan Gleason '19 picked up the win and Brennan Lyons '19 pitched in relief of Gleason before Prep scored seven runs in the 6th inning. Prep would go on to win game one, 18-8.
In game two, a first inning RBI single by Rinker proved to be the one run of the game. Jack Flannery '19 pitched a three-hit complete game shutout. With the win, Flannery improved to 11-1 on the mound for the year. Prep would beat St. Albans, 1-0, to win the I.A.C. tournament championship.
Follow the link to read The Washington Post's recap of the championship series.
Prep finished the 2019 season with a 31-5 overall record.
Congratulations to the 127 members of the Class of 2019!
| Amberman, Michael Tuohy | Bucknell University |
| Atayi, Jonathan Ayi | Le Moyne College |
| Bass, Cameron MacCauley | University at Buffalo SUNY |
| Borda, Kobe Edward | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Bracken, Rory Aloysius | Fairfield University |
| Bullard, Gary Andre | United States Military Academy - Army |
| Burns, Christopher Penn | Colgate University |
| Bustamante, Justin Francis Tablang | Georgetown University |
| Butler, Michael James | Tufts University |
| Calis, Andrew Mark | Virginia Tech |
| Cardoso Neves, Joao | Georgetown University |
| Chaichian, Omeed | University of Pittsburgh |
| Chen, Fanzhi | Johns Hopkins University |
| Cho, Jung-Hoon | Pennsylvania State University |
| Clark, Justin Reed | Villanova University |
| Colvin, Ellis Sykes | United States Military Academy - Army |
| Cormier, Gregory Roger | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Cosgrove, Ethan Nash | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Crowe, Matthew Thomas | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Crowley, Liam Seamus | Case Western Reserve University |
| Cui, Yuki Jack | Georgetown University |
| Curfman, Kamdyn Bryant | Virginia Military Institute |
| David, Bradley Stanley | Loyola University Maryland |
| Davin, Peter George | Washington and Lee University |
| Desire, Dejean Adnan | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
| Dolan, Patrick Neil | University of Notre Dame |
| Donlon, Lucas Michael | Virginia Tech |
| Dormeville, Tesfahun Rene | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Eimen, Zubin Noah | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Ennis, Matthew Tyler | Villanova University |
| Falatko, Brian Joseph | High Point University |
| Fegan, Andrew Hayes | Salisbury University |
| Ferencz, Zsombor Valer | Purdue University |
| Fiallo, Anthony Lorenzo | United States Naval Academy |
| Flannery, James Patrick | United States Naval Academy |
| Flannery, John Patrick | Fordham University |
| Frant, Ryan Alexander | Brown University |
| Furlong, Charles Truman | Colby College |
| Giulieri, James David | University of Virginia |
| Gleason, Ryan Joseph | Mercersburg Academy |
| Gonzalez-Ortiz, Carlos | Georgetown University |
| Gospodinov, Sanjay Michael | Georgetown University |
| Gottshall, Ryan Thomas | University of Virginia |
| Haglund, Nicholas Gustav | Elon University |
| Hall, Gray Mason | Hampton University |
| Hall, Oscar Abrahamsson | Berklee College of Music |
| Horrigan, Ultan Colm | St. Bonaventure University |
| Horwhat, Benjamin Torres | Bucknell University |
| Howley, John Daniel | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Huang, Haobin | Babson College |
| Humiston, Connor Wilson | Georgetown University |
| Jaeger, Patrick G. | Boston College |
| Jakobowski, Jonathan Thomas | Chapman University |
| Jasek, Cayden John | Texas Christian University |
| Jenkins, Matthew Jackson | Xavier University |
| Johnston, Andrew Robert | Dartmouth College |
| Kane, Carter Thomas | College of Charleston |
| Kang, Seung Jun | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Kaufmann, Jacob Francis | Northeastern University |
| Kaye, Maxwell Stephen | Georgetown University |
| Kazor, Jonathan Mitchel | Washington College |
| Kirlin, John Patrick | Miami University, Oxford |
| Kirlin, Kevin James | Virginia Tech |
| Lanham, Clayton Parker | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Lavoie, Francis Ryan | College of the Holy Cross |
| Li, Boxu | New York University |
| Li, Zhuofan | New York University |
| Litchford, Everest Tianyu | Cornell University |
| Liu, Kai Hsin | New York University |
| Liu, Tianyi | New York University |
| Luck, Conor Louis | Georgetown University |
| Lynott, Michael Powers | Villanova University |
| Lyons, Brennan Tam | Hood College |
| Ma, Brandon | Washington College |
| Madarang, Allen Manalastas | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Maloney, Liam Quinn | Brown University |
| Martin, Ryan Lais | University of Pennsylvania |
| Maynard, Henry Grant | Denison University |
| McCann, Thomas Brian | Miami University, Oxford |
| Mendes, Matheus | Pennsylvania State University |
| Mitchell, Eric Howard | James Madison University |
| Morales, Jacob Sweillam | Tufts University |
| Muldoon, Thomas Finnegan | Middlebury College |
| Murphy, Brian Thomas | University of Dayton |
| Na, Tong | University of California, Berkeley |
| Nascone, Rocco Joseph | Georgetown University |
| Nickerson, Bryan Christopher | University of Miami |
| Nickerson, Devin Andrew | Boston College |
| Novikov, Mark Victor | University of Southern California |
| Nweke, Odera N | Yale University |
| Ondeck, John Emrich | Miami University, Oxford |
| Oranye, Beluolisah Maxmillian | Amherst College |
| Padilla, Salvador | Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo De Mexico |
| Pappert, William Joseph | Villanova University |
| Peoples, Timothy Ryan | University of Virginia |
| Permuy, Andres Pablo | Georgetown University |
| Pipta, Brendan Mark | University of Denver |
| Poukouta Livit, Gedeon Prosper | Yale University |
| Psillas, John Delacey | Virginia Tech |
| Qiu, Rui | University of Michigan |
| Randall, Kaleb Jonathan | American University |
| Rinker, Travis James | St. Mary's College of Maryland |
| Ryan, Brendan Carrigan | Virginia Tech |
| Ryan, Jeremiah Ethan | Savannah College of Art and Design |
| Scanlon, Emmet Patrick | Villanova University |
| Scarry, Michael Liam | University of San Diego |
| Schlosser, Trent William | The Ohio State University |
| Semancik, Christopher S. | Tufts University |
| Shon, Junghyun | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Shreves, Keegan Hanley | United States Naval Academy |
| Somerville, Miles Walter | New York University |
| Stanton, Sean Matthew | College of Charleston |
| Steplight, Christian Julius | Hampton University |
| Tinsley, William Clayton | Virginia Tech |
| Trujillo, Juan | University of Virginia |
| Walker, Christopher Wesley | Stetson University |
| Walkup, Justin Alexander | Howard University |
| Walter, Michael Whitman | Bucknell University |
| Whalen, Neil Michael | Purdue University |
| Wu, Gengshi | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Ye, Zhiyuan | Georgetown University |
| Yeatman, Reagan Decker | University of Michigan |
| Yousefi, Ryan | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Zabarsky, Jeremy Sander | Drew University |
| Zaudtke, Matthew Aloysius | Furman University |
| Zhou, Yuchen | William & Mary |
| Zimmerman, Gabriel J. | Dickinson College |
Congratulations to the Georgetown Prep Athletic Program for winning the 2018-2019 Interstate Athletic Conference (I.A.C.) Founders Cup. The Founders Cup victory is Prep's sixteenth win in the last 18 years.
Beginning in 1975, the Founders' Cup points are determined by combining the regular season finish and tournament standings. Prep totaled 45.5 points, finishing the 2018-2019 year 1.5 points ahead of second place Bullis (44).
Congratulations to all the Prep athletes on a successful year!
Congratulations to the members of Georgetown Prep's varsity baseball, golf, lacrosse, tennis, and track and field teams who earned All I.A.C. honors for their outstanding play this spring.
Twenty-two Prep student-athletes earned all-league recognition:
Baseball
Golf
Lacrosse
Tennis
Track and Field
Congratulations to Patrick Dolan '19 on being named a 2019 National Merit Scholar.
Patrick, who will study engineering at the University of Notre Dame, is one of 2,500 National Merit $2,500 Scholarship winners nationwide and was selected from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists. He has joined some 338,000 other distinguished students who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
Merit scholar designees are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies.
By the conclusion of this year's competition, about 7,600 National Merit Finalists will have won National Merit Scholarship Awards worth more than $31 million.
Congratulations, Patrick!
Congratulations to the following students who were elected into Student Government positions for the 2019-20 academic year!
President/Vice President
Peter Connolly '20 and Peter Roche '20
Secretary
Mason Adore '20
Treasurer
Bobby Dunn '20
Senior Representatives
Brandon Hurt '20
Kyuchan Jeon '20
Junior Representatives
Greyson Kiondo '21
Aidan Nickerson '21
Sophomore Representatives
Akaal Bhutani '22
Trevon Marshall '22