October 2024 Accolades

We are sharing Student Accolades from:

Cross Country >>
Women's Varsity Soccer >>
Augur Bit >>
Para-athletes >>
Middle School Podcasts >>
Piano Contest Winner >>
 

Cross Country

The GDS Cross Country teams had an amazing championship this past weekend at Derwood Agricultural Farm! Fifty-three of the 72 GDS students who competed set personal records on the challenging course. 

The Varsity A girls team finished 3rd in the 15-team ISL (Independent School League), and the Varsity B girls team finished 2nd in the 15-team ISL!

The Varsity A boys team finished 2nd in the 7-team MAC (Mid Atlantic Conference) and the Varsity B boys team finished 1st in the 7-team MAC, with the Freshman and Sophomore boys team finishing 1st in the 7-team MAC!

Come cheer them on at the next DCSAA Championships this Saturday, November 2 at Kenilworth Park in NE, DC! (1500 Deane Ave NE, Washington, DC 20019)

11:00 AM Middle School Girls Race
11:35 AM Middle School Boys Race 
12:10 PM Girls JV Race 
12:45 PM Boys JV Race 
1:20 PM Varsity B girls race
1:55 PM Varsity B boys race
2:30 PM Girls State Championship 
3:05 PM Boys State Championship 
3:40 PM Awards

Women’s Varsity Soccer

Way to go GDS Women’s Varsity Soccer! In a tie match with Holton-Arms earlier this month, the Hoppers secured the ISL AA Regular Season Championship! Since their promotion from the ISL’s lower division in 2022, they have steadily progressed, this season upping their wins on their way to a total undefeated regular season for only the second time in GDS history. The Hoppers last claimed the ISL regular season title in 2019, and then became DCSAA tournament finalists.

See highlights in The Washington Post >>

Augur Bit

The Augur Bit won a First Place award in the Quill and Scroll International student newspaper competition. The Bit received the highest rating of "superior" in three of the competition's five categories: general practices, coverage and writing, and editing, and was one of only 24 school newspapers nationwide to score so high. 

In addition, the Bit also won a first-place award from the American Scholastic Press Association.

Congratulations to editor-in-chief Callie Solomon ’25, to managing editors Peter Kumar ’25, and Jeremiah Farr ’25, and to all of the Bit's staff!

Para-athletes

Bodi De ’26 and Maya De ’24 were recently highlighted in the Washingtonian for their outstanding work with para-athletes via their nonprofit, Para Standing Tennis DMV.

In 2023, brother and sister Bodi and Maya co-founded a nonprofit to boost awareness of a form of adaptive tennis called para standing tennis. The sport is similar to traditional tennis but is designed for those who have limb differences, low vision, or another disability and can play without a wheelchair.

You can read more about their work in this Washingtontonian article.

Middle School Podcasts 

Michael Bobo ‘28, Charlie Meisler ‘28, Nate Saelinger ‘28, Isaac Sinton-Remes ‘28, and Taino Stanbro ‘28 received an honorable mention in last year’s NYT Student Podcast Contest for their “Homelessness and the California Housing Crisis” podcast, part of the 8th Grade Citizen Corps "Podcast in a Day." 

Check out the Soundcloud page with all of last year's 8th grade episodes. 

Piano Contest Winner

Brian Lui '32 performed in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Helsinki this summer as a winner of the 2024 International Piano Contest hosted by the International Association for Musically Gifted Children. Brian was one of 15 who were invited to perform in the three Scandinavian countries as part of the award. There he performed  Liszt's Cantique d'amour.