Howard County Sports

The 17th Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Games are set for Saturday at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Field, with the girls’ game starting at 5:30 p.m. and the boys’ game to follow at 8 p.m. Both will be televised on ESPNU.

Notre Dame Prep teammates Mae Marshall and Olivia Rockstroh, McDonogh’s Kori Edmondson and Glenelg Country’s Maggie Weisman have been selected to play for the South team, providing a glimpse of the promising things to come at the University of Maryland.

Jaxon Smith, who redshirted his freshman season with the Terps this past winter, will compete at 97 kilograms for the freestyle team, while Richard Fedalen, who graduated from McDonogh in June, will wrestle at 72 kilograms for the Greco-Roman squad.

Under the watchful eye of coach and former minor league baseball player Breland Brown, Hearts N Glory Striders Elite track and field club has produced four athletes who will participate in this month’s American Athletic Union Junior Olympics at North Carolina A&T State University.

Named the 2022 Howard County Times Pitcher of the Year, River Hill's Henry Zatkowski finished the season with a 5-0 record and 0.62 ERA while striking out 44 batters in 35 innings.

Ace Valentine, an Ellicott City resident who maintains a 4.6 GPA, said his official visit had him quickly sold. He also had offers from Loyola Maryland, Niagara, St. Peter’s, Navy, North Carolina A&T and William & Mary, and several Ivy League schools also expressed interest.

Jenna Michelotti qualified for the 2022 CrossFit Games in Madison, Wisconsin, in August for the second straight season. She'll compete against the world's best in her division to determine the fittest athletes in the world.

Gabrielle Cha, a Mount de Sales and Towson graduate, and Esprit Cha, a St. Paul’s graduate and High Point rising sophomore, helped Korea earn 21st place at the 2022 World Lacrosse Championships at Towson University, delighting their father and grandmother who were born in South Korea.

Marriotts Ridge sophomore Mukundh Boopathi was undefeated No. 1 singles player for the Mustangs, winning the Howard County Cup and a regional championship before finishing as Class 3A state runner-up. Bookpathi is the 2022 Howard County Times boys tennis Player of the Year.

“I think there’s a long way for us to go as far as female representation in the sport," said Wilde Lake's new JV head football coach Chantal Ridlon Thacker, "but I think we’ve also come a long way from where we started.”

In her first varsity season, River Hill freshman Adele Lair finished undefeated in the regular season, a county and region champion in No. 1 singles. For her efforts, Lair is the 2022 Howard County Times Girls Tennis Player of the Year.

Oakland Mills senior Judson Lincoln IV shattered the state record in the 200, also with three other first place finishes at counties, regionals and states, earning the Howard County Times Boys Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year.

A dual-threat quarterback, a do-everything basketball player and a state champion track athlete, Glenelg senior Bisi Owens did it all to be selected as The Baltimore Sun’s 2021-22 high school boys Athlete of the Year.

Sports leagues and organizations across the world are grappling with the question of whether to separate cisgender and transgender women in sports. A recent University of Maryland poll shows considerable opposition to transgender women and girls competing against cisgender women and girls at all levels.

Here are The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro baseball teams for the 2022 season.

Here are The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro girls lacrosse teams for the 2022 season.

Mt. Hebron senior goalie Everett Armstead was the anchor of the Vikings' top scoring defense, earning the 2022 Howard County Times Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year.

Here are The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro boys lacrosse teams for the 2022 season.

Atholton won the Howard County invitational swim meet on Saturday as River Hill took second place and Marriotts Ridge finished third.

Reservoir senior catcher Ben Davis' offensive and defensive impact helped guide the Gators to the state semifinals for just the second time in program history. Davis has been named the 2022 Howard County Times/Columbia Flier baseball Player of the Year.

Coaching the North team at the 40th annual Brooks Robinson Senior All-Star Game — a new iteration of the one where he’d spent so many years with his father — Russell Wrenn thought back to those days as a bat boy with his dad as his team beat the South team, 3-1, at Camden Yards.