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Fauquier, Liberty and Kettle Run high schools are not eligible to begin preseason sports workouts until the State Department of Education signs off on the submitted plan for safety. July 6 is a possibility. Culpeper and Eastern View were approved to start this week. Fauquier Times | July 1, 2020
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WHITE, MILLER ARE FAUQUIER TIMES 2020 LIBERTY ATHLETES OF THE YEAR Big play Tre: White left legacy in football, hoops By Peter Brewington Times Staff Writer
We live in an era of sports specialization where it is now inconceivable for a high school male athlete to master football in the fall, basketball in the winter and baseball in the spring. For Liberty High’s Tre’Von White that superhuman feat of versatility was within his grasp this spring. A football-basketball phenom who never played high school baseball, the senior was set to start in center field, until the pandemic wiped out spring sports in early March. PHOTO BY JOHN HUGGINS/HUGSHOTS PHOTOGRAPHY “He shocked us when he Liberty football star Tre’Von White was a went for baseball. We wanted first team all-state safety, team MVP and him to try lacrosse,” said his intercepted a school-record 13 passes. mother Shauna of another sport that would also have been a unique THE WHITE FILE tribute to White’s athleticism. Family: Father Jay works in pest What’s not a shock is that White control business. Mother Shauna is the Fauquier Times 2020 Liberty is a cook at Liberty High. Brother High Boys Athlete of the Year. He Ja’Von, 19, is a former Liberty cemented his legacy as a school legfootball and track star. Sister end with a Liberty record 13 career Jazzmin, 17, is a rising senior at interceptions in football and excelled Liberty an basketball starter. as a dunking machine in basketball. Favorite food: His mom’s seafood Baseball gave him a 1.000 batting pasta salad. Crabs and shrimp. average as a three-sport athlete. Favorite restaurant: Mexican food White, 18, made history as the or Golden Corral. school’s most rapacious defensive back Superstitions: “Owls. They bring with 13 interceptions. As a senior, bad spirits. It means something bad White had 11 interceptions and 45 tackis coming. My mom’s side is Native les and was a first team all-state, all-reAmerican, they told me that.” gion and all-district. He also caught Family numbers: Sister Jazzmin 45 passes for 712 yards and 10 TDs. wears No. 12 because it’s the He scored two TDs on interception reopposite of Tre’s No. 21. turns, one on a blocked field goal and fumble return, one on a punt return, TD catches in the 27-17 win. In a 40one rushing, and threw a TD pass. 29 win against Kettle Run, White White’s big plays seemed to flow blocked a field goal attempt and relike No. 1 hit songs from Madonna or turned it 85 yards for a TD and made Beyonce. “He had certain moments in five receptions for 98 yards.. every game, where if he had not done In a 20-13 win at Sherando, White that, I don’t know if we would have scored on a reverse from 27 yards pulled it out,” said football coach Travis out to make it 18-13 with 6:52 left as Buzzo. “He became a highlight reel.” the Eagles improved to 6-0. Beneath his slender 6-foot-3½, In a 20-14 win at Millbrook, 150-something-pound frame lies White caught a 63-yard TD bomb a relaxed happy kid with a knack from Dylan Bailey to help the Eagles for mass-producing signature, take sole possession of first place in game-changing football plays. “He’s a the district at 8-0. very smart football player, at times he Perhaps his biggest play was a messes with opponents,” said Buzzo. 60-yard interception return for the “He’s one of the smartest I’ve ever had.” go-ahead TD in a 21-14 win over Former LHS coach Sean Finnerty Loudoun County in the Class 4 Reagreed.“Tre was one of the best compet- gion B quarterfinals. Liberty’s 11-1 itors I have had the pleasure to coach. season ended in a 53-22 loss to TusThere was never a play he thought he carora in Bealeton, with White docouldn’t make,” Finnerty said. ing his part with two TD receptions. Earlier in the year, the Eagles White played on the freshman, JV struggled against King George, but White helped them through with two See WHITE, page 16
Miller’s field hockey memories will last forever By Fred Hodge
Special to the Times
Athletes have a different perspective on their particular sport than the average fan. Fans usually witness only the actual head-to-head competition. Athletes focus on both the outcome and the behind-the-scenes bonding. For recent Liberty graduate Emma Miller the memories of the Eagles’ record-setting field hockey season will bring smiles long into the future. Miller was a fixture on that amazing team and was set to COURTESY PHOTO shine in lacrosse this spring, Emma Miller was part of the greatest field leading to her selection as hockey team in Liberty history at 18-2. Fauquier Times 2020 Liberty Girls Athlete of the Year. THE MILLER FILE “It’s not really about the sport. Family: “I’m lucky enough to be It’s about the connection we had. On blessed with two sets of parents. and off the field we were best friends My mom, Meredyth Miller is a as well as being teammates,” Miller pre-school teacher, and my dad, said about LHS field hockey’s 18-2 Scott Agans, is a sales engineer season and first trip to the state tourat Genetec. My stepdad, Daniel nament since 2005. Farrar, works for Dominion Power, “We went to states just because and my stepmom, Bridget McGee, we transferred our love and our conis a marketing coordinator for the nection as friends to being teamAmerican Society for Microbiology. mates. We communicate and are My half-brothers Tyler, Oliver and honest with each other.” Max are going into third grade, Liberty won 18 in a row, includKindergarten and pre-school. ing the Northwestern District’s Favorite food: “I love classic chicken regular-season and tournament tenders and French fries. I could also crowns before placing second in eat chick-fil-a or chipotle every day of the regional playoffs. The sterling the week and never get tired of it. campaign ended with a loss in the Favorite movie: Sing. “I can quote state Group 4A quarterfinals to the whole movie and I know all the Chancellor. songs on the soundtrack.” Prior to the opening game, Miller Favorite music: Any top charts. and several teammates bought temModern, pop, rap, country. porary tattoos, which became a ritual after their 1-0 start. “We became season conditioning, Liberty field very superstitious and would try to hockey coach Katie Norman wonkeep ...every little detail the same, dered what was up when Miller texeven down to our hair style or socks ted Norman that she was going to we wore,” Miller said. volleyball camp. Another quirky tradition also “I responded, ‘You know field arose after the girls took a pair of hockey and volleyball are in the battered, unwanted football cleats same season?’ Her response deleft on the field to the hockey locker scribes Emma perfectly. She said room. “Every time we won, we put something along the lines of ‘Yes, I a little tally. We kept adding more just want to learn everything I can and more. For the first 18 games we and be really well rounded in sports.’ had 18 tally marks,” Miller said. And to no one’s surprise, that is exFamily obligations prevented her actly what she did.” from playing on youth teams growMiller became a captain for her ing up, making field hockey and la- junior and senior seasons. A cencrosse her first ventures into team ter midfielder, she was first-team sports. “I decided to try something all-Northwestern District and secnew. I’ve always been active,” she ond-team all-Region D honors as a said.”That turned out a lot better senior. than I expected.” Impressed with her talent in pre- See MILLER, page 16
