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Fauquier Times | July 22, 2020
ANGELO’S LIST
Highland’s Brizzi is recommended pick by USA’s elite basketball programs
By Fred Hodge Special to the Time
Angelo Brizzi’s summer has been red hot. And we’re not talking about the lengthy span of sultry temperatures.
Some of the nation’s top college men’s basketball programs have flooded the rising senior point guard from Highland School with scholarship offers, making him the most highly recruited boys player in Fauquier County history.
Brizzi, a 6-foot-3, 175-pound left-handed shooter, currently holds 32 Division I offers, encompassing 16 states and the District of Columbia. VHSL choosing from three distinct models
By Peter Brewington
Time Sta Writer
Fauquier High baseball coach Matt O’Saben recently sent out a Twitter message to his prospective players to “get out of the Chick-fil-A line and pick up a bat and ball.”
O’Saben and hundreds of other spring sports coaches want their athletes ready in case a practical plan to flip-flop fall and spring sports is adopted by the Virginia High School League.
The VHSL will make a fateful decision involving the 2020-21 sports calendar on Monday, July 27. Three models are being considered: • Model 1 scraps football/volleyball/ field hockey/competition cheer for the entire year, but allows golf and cross country this fall. Winter and spring sports would follow with no restrictions. • Model 2 involves switching spring sports to this fall. Under this scenario, baseball, softball, soccer, tennis, track and perhaps lacrosse would be waged this fall, with fall sports in the spring. • Model 3, which appears the most popular and realistic, involves condensing all three seasons into a tighter time frame. Winter sports would run from Dec. 14 through
Feb. 20. Fall sports would run from Feb. 15 through May 1 and spring sports from April 12 until
June 26.
What makes Brizzi so special?
Angelo Brizzi’s package of longrange shooting, quick first step and deft ball-handling ability gives him many advantages. Brizzi has a quick release set shot, which means he needs very little space. The lefthander can hit from nearly 25 feet. Get too close to him and he will drive right past you to create other problems. He is smart, knows when to pass it back out and has finishing ability near the basket. -Peter Brewington
By early April, he had 21 offers, mostly mid-major caliber. On April 9, his world changed when Villanova coach Jay Wright, whose Wildcats won the 2016 and 2018 NCAA championship, made an offer. More heavyweight schools followed.
“It was crazy for sure. It came out of nowhere,” Brizzi said of the conversation with Wright.
Georgetown also made an over
The benefit of Model 3 is that it buys more time for the pandemic to recede, with every sport likely to be included. However, schedules would be reduced to 60% of normal, with state playoffs expected to be eliminated. There could also be overlap issues for athletes interested in playing multiple sports seasons.
On Tuesday, the 15 schools in the Northwestern and Dulles Districts which comprise Class 4 Region C said they would prefer to see the VHSL host cross country, golf, tennis, softball and baseball this fall. However, that is not one of the models. Of the models proposed, the region supports Model 3.
Model 2, with spring sports moved to fall, doesn’t seem feasible due to the current state of the pandemic. Virginia is not cleared from Phase 3, and VHSL executive director Billy Haun has said all sports are a no-go while in Phase 3.
On July 15, the VHSL announced football, volleyball, field hockey and competition cheer would not be
FILE PHOTO Highland point guard Angelo Brizzi got a basketball scholarship offer from Villanova in April, leading to more big-time offers. He’s the No. 3-ranked rising senior in Virginia by rivals.com and No. 23 point guard nationally by ESPN. ture the same day, with a small avalanche of offers following over the next 47 days. Brizzi gained nine total scholarship tenders from Power 6 conference schools plus a pair of mid majors. “It was a wild period of Next Monday, July 27, will be a fateful day for high school athletes across the state as they learn when they’ll play during the 2020-21 school year. COURTESY PHOTO played this fall due to pandemic concerns, then announced the three options. Coaches processed the news, and have been weighing in.
“Friday nights in the fall is a beautiful thing, but any opportunity they get to play I’m in favor of,” said Woodbridge High first-year football coach Alex Urquhart. “I’m excited to coach our kids in the fall or the spring.”
Fauquier volleyball coach Diana Story is still worried about the pandemic. “None of the three scenarios are ideal for any of us because we are still dealing with the unknown from the COVID,” she said. “If and when we can play, I’ll get my girls ready to play. Everybody in the state of Virginia is in the same boat and is going to have to work with whatever comes down.”
For many fall coaches, moving to a February-May window is a reprieve and gives them more time to practice.
“We told our Falcons that we are basically in spring ball getting ready time,” he laughed. Brizzi trimmed his list last week to his top eight. In alphabetical order, they are Arizona, California (Berkeley), Colorado, Dartmouth,
Shorter seasons plan could save high school sports in ‘20-21
See BRIZZI, page 9 for the season similar to how college football works,” said Fauquier High football coach Karl Buckwalter. “As long as we can continue to move forward then we are ecstatic.”
With on-campus conditioning allowed in most parts of the state (although not in Prince William County), many coaches are enjoying interactions with players, although restrictive safety protocols are in place due to COVID-19.
“Our players, staff, and athletic trainers have done a phenomenal job with the adjusted workouts. It has been a joy being back on the field with everyone again. We will continue to train until we hear otherwise from the state,” said Kettle Run football coach Charlie Porterfield.
Woodbridge’s Urquhart said the Vikings are also getting a lot done, even if they can’t condition at school due to county restrictions.
“A lot of what we’re doing is virtual. Position meetings, meetings for offense, defense and special teams, and character development lessons,” said Urquhart. “I feel like we have a very solid group of kids buying in. If we set our culture right, they’ll go in the direction we want then to go in.”
Urquhart reiterated his support of Model 3.
“I’m leaning toward Model 3 where everyone gets a chance to participate. The biggest thing for me is the sense that we get to play football and all the sports get to participate. We saw in the spring those sports getting cut. Those kids deserve an opportunity to play,” said the Vikings’ new football coach.
BRIZZI, from page 8 Davidson, Michigan, Northwestern and Villanova.
Falling by the wayside were Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, LSU, Georgetown, Bucknell, UNC-Wilmington, St. Joseph’s, Furman, Stetson, William & Mary, George Washington, Old Dominion, Yale, Navy, Lehigh, Fairfield, Drexel, Iona, LaSalle, Loyola (Md.), Brown, Columbia, Pepperdine and Howard.
Brizzi felt the move was prudent considering the recruiting calendar is off-kilter due to the pandemic.
“What’s going to happen with recruiting? And what’s going to be allowed due to the pandemic?” he said. “I was completely open-ended even through April because I thought things might pick up in June or July. Everyone was hopeful at that time, so there was no reason to make any moves and start to plan things out because nothing had happened.”
Brizzi, who played his freshman year for his uncle, Fauquier High coach Wayne Brizzi, has SAT scores over 1,400 and is interested in studying environmental science.
He stressed the door still is ajar for new suitors. “I’m still open technically. If somebody else jumped into the mix, sure, I would consider them.”
He has had two recent phone calls from University of North Carolina coach Roy Williams.
“The first time was ‘Whoa, this is Coach Williams.’ Obviously, I was excited. It was an honor to get a phone call from him,” said Brizzi.
He’s also in regular contact with staff at reigning national champion Virginia. “I’m not going to wait on any other school. I like what I have,” he continued of his eight choices. “These are the ones I’m going to focus on.”
Brizzi plans to sign in the November early signing period. Normally, he would have conducted one or more of his five allowed official visits by now. But the NCAA has forbidden visits until Sept. 1. “I think that is going to get postponed,” he predicted, which could alter timelines even more.
Brizzi hopes to take all five trips before deciding, “but I can’t guarantee that.”
All of his suitors have praised his long-range shooting, he said, but many also noted other facets of his game. Those comments range from “hustle plays,” passing and defense. Brizzi also prides himself for doing “the dirty work.”
Brizzi’s selection criteria include a team’s recent success, his relationships with a coaching staff and how they use players, particularly point guards. Staying close to home is not a necessity, nor is immediate playing time.
Playing time is also a consideration. “I think anybody would want to be able to go in and have an early impact,” Brizzi admitted. “It’s nice to look and see if [early] playing time is available, but it’s not the [bottom line],” he said.
With a decision made, he’ll concentrate on his third season and fiHighland rising senior Angelo Brizzi wants to make his official campus visits before he decides which powerhouse program to pick. The pandemic has pushed athlete recruiting visits back to Sept. 1.
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nal season at Highland. Under coach Brian Hooker, Highland went 23-3 and reached the VISAA Division II semifinals for the first time in school history last season.
In response to a question, Brizzi said he has no plans to transfer to a larger school that may face a tougher schedule. Instead, he stressed Highland lost only one player, whetting the team’s appetite for a 2020-21 state title.
Brizzi was Delaney Athletic Conference MVP in 2019 and 2020. He also earned first-team VISAA allstate honors last winter after averaging 20.3 points, 6.6 assists, 4.2 rebounds and 3.2 steals.
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Spring series turns to summer
The Keswick Hunt will host a hunter pace competition Aug. 8 near their kennels in Orange County. The Farmington Hunt held a pairs event last weekend, and other clubs plan to have hunter paces in August and September. More details are at bullrunhunt.com.
Special regulations for the sidelines, but polo field play has barely slowed
Great Meadow Polo joins Beverly Polo, Foxlease, Morningside, the Nash Tigers, Willow Run, Kingland and others in hosting club and league play on local polo fields. Most games are free, with spectators limited, but find exact viewing regulations on each group’s Facebook page.
Virginia ‘spring’ racing carries the steeplechase season so far
The National Steeplechase Association announced that coverage of the 100th Middleburg Spring Races June 13 and the 95th Virginia Gold Cup June 27 drew thousands of viewers from across the world.
Two livestream shows on the NSA Network featured full coverage, historical content features, interviews with racing insiders, drone footage and behind-the-scenes profiles. NSA president Al Griffin said he’s thrilled with the results. “The NSA, Middleburg and the Virginia Gold Cup worked tirelessly this month to produce a world-class livestream for not only racing fans but sports fans across the globe,” said the Warrenton orthodontist. “We are proud of the way the organization had to shift to online viewing from a traditionally spectator-viewed event.”
The livestream saw 70 percent growth of viewers between Middleburg Spring and Gold Cup. Social media presence increased 500 percent compared to the 2019 spring season.
The two Virginia meets hosted 21 races combined for purse money to help horsemen through the COVID-19 crisis. View archived races at
nationalsteeplechase.com.
Racing returns to New Kent next week
The 2020 Colonial Downs race meet starts Monday, July 27 at the New Kent County course.
This year’s 18-day meet runs Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, with first post at 5:30 p.m.
Racing continues through Sept. 2. All races are aired on the TVG Network.
Under conditions established in Virginia’s Phase 3 reopening plan, which allows for outdoor venues to host up to 1,000 spectators, social Mosby Heritage Area Association chairman Dulany Morison, in the middle in the tan coat, led a benefit historical ride from Stoke in Aldie on Saturday. There were history lessons taught along the trail, an important area during much of the Civil War. That’s Morison’s wife, Eleanor, in green to his right.
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distancing will be enforced and masks will be required inside.
“With the advancement into Phase 3 of Virginia’s reopening plan, and guidance from state and local health authorities, we are anxious to offer this year’s race meeting with limited spectators in a safe and healthful fashion,” said John Marshall, Colonial Downs’ vice-president of operations.
Response from horsemen has been strong nationwide, with more than 800 stall applications. The stable area opened Monday.
Meet details are at colonialdowns. com.
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