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Fauquier Times | August 26, 2020
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COACHING LEGEND ELLEN ALLEN RETIRES
County’s winningest girls basketball coach and administrator was a fixture at Kettle Run, Liberty and Fauquier
By Fred Hodge Spe ial o he TImes
One of Fauquier County’s iconic coaching figures has hung up her sneakers.
Ellen Allen recently retired following 32 years of service in the county’s school system. She taught and coached at all three of the county’s public high schools, beginning at Fauquier in 1988 after graduating from West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Allen then moved to Liberty High School for 14 years after the 1994 opening and went to Kettle Run for the last 12 years.
Allen, who had been Kettle Run’s assistant director of student activities and girls basketball coach, departs with the most girls basketball coaching victories in county history at 266, with 239 coming at Liberty. She also has coached girls and boys tennis and track during her career and was Kettle Run’s first assistant director of student activities.
By her count, she coached more than 50 seasons in her tenure, leading to many 60-plus hour weeks. “That’s a lot of hours after my contractual teaching job,” she noted.
Earlier this week, Allen admitted she had been giving retirement serious consideration in recent years. She decided to return for the 2020-21 school year until the school board’s decision to install all virtual learning for at least the first term.
“I was not looking forward to coming back to do something totally different than I had done before,” she explained. “I enjoyed teaching because I had interaction with students every day.”
Allen recalled a conversation years ago when she posed a question to her mother.
“How am I going to know when it is time to retire? She said, ‘Trust me, Ellen, you’ll know,’” Allen said. “And she was right. This was the right time.”
Paul Frye, Kettle Run’s director of student ac
With caution, Highland, Wakefield return to sports By Peter Brewington
Times S aff Wri er
Private schools in the region like Highland, Wakefield, Seton and Saint John Paul the Great are preparing to play sports this fall.
Low risk sports like girls tennis, cross country and golf appear likely as full varsity offerings, with moderate risk sports like field hockey, volleyball and boys soccer also played against other schools or as intramurals.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA) announced last month that no state championships will be held for the fall sports, but said that schools could elect to play sports if they felt comfortable.
As a result, numerous private schools are jumping in enthusiastically, with some even choosing to play football, including Fredericksburg Christian Academy. Seton School (Manassas) is planning to compete in boys soccer, volleyball, cross country and girls tennis.
Saint John Paul the Great (Dumfries) will host cross country, girls tennis, cheerleading and volleyball, with field hockey and boys soccer conducted as intramurals.
FILE PHOTO Ellen Allen contributed 32 years of service to Fauquier County athletes. After getting her start at Fauquier, she coached championship girls basketball teams at Liberty, then transitioned to Kettle Run as an assistant athletic director, and later jumped back into coaching. tivities, worked with Allen at Liberty before both moved to the new school.
“She was very instrumental in the opening of Kettle Run as the assistant athletic director for eight years,” Frye said.
“It is hard to sum up the many contributions that coach Allen has made to the programs at all three schools,” he added. “The impact that Ellen made on everyone around her cannot be replaced and will be missed.”
Allen greatly appreciates the support she received from Frye and Kettle Run principal PHOTO BY RANDY LITZINGER Unlike public schools, private schools are competing in sports this fall. Golf is not expected to use mixed foursomes.
Highland (Warrenton) and Wakefield (The Plains) are still deciding, but hope to safely host tennis, cross country and golf with social distancing guidelines enforced. They may play soccer, field hockey and volleyball within their own campus bubble as intramurals with nothing off campus.
Highland athletic director Gary Leake said there are about 28 boys soccer players on campus, enough for a weekly intramural game. “We can have two teams of 14. We could do a Blue-Gold weekly game,” he said, adding that the goal would be to play in October after the squads got some workouts in.
Highland also has 18-20 volleyball players, enough for two squads. As for field hockey, “We don’t have enough girls to run a full level game, but we can modify it to 7 vs. 7 to save numbers.”
ELLEN ALLEN
Meghan Brill over her retirement decision.
“I’ve been honest with Paul and Meghan for the last few years. They knew I was on the short end of my career,” Allen said. “They were 100 percent supportive and made it easy.”
The long-time coach said notifying her current players and their parents was the most difficult aspect of letting go.
Yet, the response has been heartening as word of her retirement spread. “Former students have reached out to me and left nice notes. That’s just special,” she said.
She takes many fond memories with her, headed by later success of many of her former students in college and employment.
“Athletically, there are so many,” Allen stressed.
But two stand out. She cited a win over state power Handley for the Northwestern District girls tennis title. The second came in a girls basketball contest at county rival Fauquier. Liberty trailed the hosts by 27 points in the third quarter before staging a monumental comeback win.
As far as future plans, her first response was, “I’m going to play golf four times a week.”
Allen said that jokingly, before adding she will enjoy eating dinner with her husband more than two or three times a week. “I’m not jumping into anything. I’m just going to take it day by day,” she stressed.
“I call it the icing on the cake because this is not a bad thing. It’s time for the next chapter in my life,”
Allen said. “I’m doing what’s best for me right now.”
VHSL plans for sports schedules to be cut by 60%
By Fred Hodge Spe ial o he Times
On Monday the Virginia High School League released proposed contest limits for the delayed high school sports calendar, planning for 60% reductions to regular seasons in most sports.
For the winter sports, basketball will play 14 games (22 previously) with eight for wrestling (12) and six for both swimming and indoor track (10).
The relocated spring season will see football cut to six games instead of 10, volleyball to 14 instead of 20 and field hockey to 10 instead of 16. Competition cheer will be three (five), cross country six (10) and golf eight (12).
Spring reductions include 12 games in baseball and softball (20 previously), 10 in soccer and tennis (16), nine in lacrosse (14) and nine in outdoor track (10).
The VHSL is also looking at establishing time frames for district, region and state tournaments. Teams not qualifying for a regional tournament berth would be permitted to schedule one additional contest that must be played by the region deadline.
After state-wide conversations with administrators, athletic directors and coaches, the VHSL Executive Committee will meet again Sept. 3.
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From race car driver to championship level eventer, Halliday-Sharp has a need for speed
California rider wins Great Meadow International with lastminute race to the finish
By Betsy Burke Parker Spe ial o he Times
The win came down to the wire.
Liz Halliday-Sharp knew she’d have to be precise, exacting and fast in Sunday’s cross-country phase to prevail in the headline CCI4* at the Great Meadow International. The former championship level race car driver had to best a field of 68 of the world’s most elite horse-and-rider pairs for the victory, but, as in her auto racing career, the clock was her biggest competitor.
Riding Ocala Horse Properties’ Deniro Z, the Kentucky-based professional shrugged off a tumble from an earlier mount in the same division – a miscommunication with Flash Cooley at a narrow brushbox at 9b on the 23-jump course, to notch one of just five double-clear rounds and a personal-best score to lay down a new Great Meadow winning tally.
In eventing, riders aim to match a pre-set optimum time. Penalties accrue for over time. Deniro Z finished in 6:37, seven seconds faster than the 6:44 optimum time. There are no bonus points for faster times.
For the first international-level event held in North America since March, an unprecedented 250 horses came to The Plains, filling six upper level divisions with competitors eager to get back on the field after months away from competi
PHOTOS BY BETSY BURKE PARKER Race car driver Liz Halliday-Sharp turned to another kind of horsepower to win the four-star headliner at the weekend’s Great Meadow International in The Plains. Dutch warmblood Deniro Z turned in a fault-free performance to take top honors in the first international event held in North America since March.
tion. They played to a largely empty house – COVID-19 restrictions meant that just 1,000 pre-paid spectators – called event sponsors – were allowed on the grounds in addition to essential personnel.
Those in attendance widely commended the show, both inside the rails and out.
“It was an amazing weekend,” said Sheila DeHart, visiting from Powhatan and watching from one of the socially distanced sponsor tents dotting the Fleming Farm course with views of all three phases. “Everyone was extremely responsible – masks, distanced, no vendors’ row, no food sales. After all the hard work Great Meadow did to set it up, it was actually easy to play by the rules.”
Haliday-Sharp agreed. “The crew at Great Meadow did a super job,” she said. It was her first time at Great Meadow, but Halliday-Sharp was impressed. “(This event) is definitely one I am going to keep on my calendar in the future,” she added on Facebook.
Deniro Z was fourth after dressage – a personal best score of 24.2. He steadily progressed up the leaderboard, moving up with double-clear show jumping then the double-clear cross-country over event organizer David O’Connor’s testing track. “He’s such a wonderful horse,” she said of the 12-year-old Dutch warmblood. Allison Springer was one of three local riders to win at Great Meadow, joining Lynn Symansky and Sharon White taking top honors at the weekend event. Springer rode No May Moon to win the preliminary division. “He just tries so hard, and we have such an amazing partnership now.”
Deniro Z was top 10 in his first CCI5* at Luhmuhlen in 2018 and top 15 at Burghley in 2019.
He was one of Halliday-Sharp’s four mounts in the division: she placed 12th with Cooley Quicksilver and 27th with Fernhill By Night in addition to the fall from Flash Cooley.
Halliday-Sharp grew up in San Diego, studying biology at Univeristy of California at Santa Barbara before embarking on a career as a sports car and GT endurance racing driver. She was a commentator and pit reporter for auto racing, covering the Le Mans 24, Lotus and Alfa Romeo series.
Halliday-Sharp is based in Lexington, Kentucky and Ocala, Florida. She’s been on the U.S. Equestrian high performance training list, ridden on multiple Nation’s Cup teams and was reserve rider at the 2018 World Equestrian Games and 2019 Pan American Games. Haliday-Sharp said previously that she has her sights on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
Complete results are at greatmeadowinternational.com.
HORSE BRIEFS
Four-star event canceled
Morven Park Horse Trials organizers have canceled their inaugural CCI4*- long format event due to concerns over COVID-19.
The event, scheduled Oct. 1 to 4 in Leesburg, will still host national divisions from beginner novice through advanced. This would have been the first time a four-star longformat event was offered at Morven Park.
The event was awarded a fall CCI4*-L after a fall CCI5*-L went to Fair Hill. That inaugural event, the Maryland CCI5*, has also been canceled for 2020.
They added two-star and three-star “young horse” divisions.
Based on the enthusiastic entries in all divisions at this past weekend’s Great Meadow International, and excellent results from social distancing measures and mask policies, Morven Park organizers anticipate a record number of competitors.
Spectators won’t be allowed to attend the trials, but Eventing Nation will stream the competition live on their website. Streaming details will be released closer to the event date – morvenpark.org and eventingnational.com.
Morven’s 2020 calendar has been expanded to include a Nov. 14 to 15 event for beginner novice through preliminary.
FALL SPORTS, from page 13
Seton is fielding varsity, JV and junior high teams in field hockey and boys soccer, and also competing in cross country and girls tennis. Seton has four boys varsity soccer games scheduled, two each against Fredericksburg Christian and Chelsea Academy.
Due to social distancing, Leake said Highland’s squads are looking at tennis competition as singles-only. In golf, he said schools would not be sent out in mixed foursomes. Cross country could be done with staggered starts for safety.
Private school inquiries are up this fall as many parents look for schools offering on-campus learning. Wakefield and Seton have students in classrooms five days a week. Highland is on campus two days a week.
Sports are a huge part of the private school model. Leake said 80% of Highland’s upper school students play a sport; at Seton it’s 75%.
“We want to offer something. We feel like the kids need a physical outlet in the fall so we can hope to return to some type of normalcy in the late winter and spring,” said Leake.
Wakefield, which opened Monday with 129 students in its upper school, spent the day going over safety protocols with its coaches and athletes. “I think all rosters will be full,” said athletic director Tee Summers.
Summers called the protocol guidelines essential to having sports and expects his kids to take them seriously. “I think they’re excited to be back in school and are going to follow the guidelines in place. I think they know as long as they follow things it increases the likelihood of staying in school,” he said.
Wakefield’s safety protocols include pre-screening before practice with an athletic trainer. Temperatures will be taken and a questionnaire conducted. There will be plenty of hand sanitizing and social distancing at practice, he said.
Wakefield has ample fields on its 68 acres which should create no scheduling conflicts over field use. There are two fields as you start up the long driveway to the school and more fields at the top of the property behind the rear parking lots.
“The beauty of our campus is we have a lot of space,” said Summers.
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