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Quince Orchard coach Jenna Reis will step down at the end of the season. — Amy Mulalrkey/For The Examiner
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - One of Montgomery County’s most successful field hockey coaches, Jenna Reis, will relinquish her duties at the end of the season, she said Wednesday. In nine years, Reis has a 133-27-6 career record with seven region titles and two state championships. She guided the defending Maryland 4A champion Cougars to a 2-0 win over Churchill in the region quarterfinals Tuesday.
Reis, who also gave up her position as lacrosse coach at QO earlier this year, is leaving high school coaching to devote more time to her club program, Champions of Tomorrow, which trains local athletes in four sports and recently opened an indoor athletic complex in Rockville. Reis also is expecting her third child late this month.
Friendly forfeits
The undefeated Friendly football program, ranked No. 4 in the Examiner, will forfeit “either three or four games,” according to Earl Hawkins, head of county athletics.
The Patriots were found to have used an ineligible player for their first three games this season, according to Hawkins. The county is sifting through game films to determine if the player participated in a fourth game. Friendly will remain eligible for the postseason, Hawkins said. The player was declared ineligible because he did not meet residency requirements to play for school.
Friendly is the fourth football program in Prince George’s County to forfeit games for player residency issues this fall. Flowers, Crossland, and Eleanor Roosevelt are the others. Hawkins said that players found to have violated residency rules must sit out 60 days before playing athletics in the county.
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1:07 AM MST on Tue., Feb. 12, 2008 re: "Frantz: High school athletes no longer immune to big-time pressure"
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College football has many devoted followers and a schools future success is dependent on the high school athletes it is able to recruit. College football fans follow their favorite schools reruiting efforts the same way NFL fans follow the draft and free-agent signings. The multitude of media outlets that cover sports pander to that interest by reporting and speculating on where the various college prospects are headed. It's hard to imagine the situation changing any time soon as long as there are multi-millions of college football fan(atic)s and the success of college football programs being so dependent on the high school athletes they recruit. It does shine a bright spotlight on kids who may not be ready for it, but whats the solution; a news moratorium on high school sports? Ultimately, its up to the parents to keep their kid's heads screwed on straight during the recruiting process.
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