Broad Run High School

Infobox Education in the United States
name= Broad Run High School


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Entrance (2007)"
streetaddress= 21670 Ashburn Road
city= Ashburn
state= Virginia
zipcode= 20147
url= http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us/brhs
schoolboard= Loudoun County School Board
district= Loudoun County Public Schools
superintendent=
principal= Edgar Markley, Ed.D.
assistant_principals= Douglas Anderson, Pamela Jacobs, Christopher O'Rourke
staff= 117
type= Public
schooltype= high school
grades= 9–12
language= English
communities= Ashburn Village
Farmwell Hunt
University Center
feeders= Ashburn Elementary, Cedar Lane Elementary, Dominion Trail Elementary and Farmwell Station Middle School
campus= Suburban
mascot= Spartan
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founded= 1969
enrollment= 1,439
enrollment_as_of= 2007
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free_1= Park View High School
Stone Bridge High School
Freedom High School
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free_3= Dulles District
Region II
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Broad Run High School is a public secondary school in Ashburn, an unincorporated area in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, and is part of the Loudoun County Public Schools system (LCPS).

Of the county's ten public high schools, Broad Run (BRHS) has experienced the most change in both its physical and demographic environments during its nearly four decades of existence. Originally a rural school serving all of eastern Loudoun County, the explosive growth of the county's population beginning in the mid-1990s has resulted in systematic reduction of Broad Run's attendance area as it spun off six of the district's high schools from within its original boundaries. Initial surroundings of farm fields have been replaced by housing tracts and the school now possesses one of the most culturally diverse student populations in the region.

Nicknamed “Cornfield High” when it opened, [cite book | last = Yearbook Staff | title = The Shield (Vol. XVII) | publisher = Broad Run High School | year= 1986 | pages = p. 2] Broad Run’s facilities, academic and extracurricular environments have always been challenged by its location in one of the fastest growing counties in the United States. [cite press release | title = US Census Bureau News | publisher = US Census Bureau | date = 2006-03-16 | url = http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/006563.html | accessdate = 2007-01-28] [cite news | last = Miller | first = S.A. | title = Loudoun is fastest growing | publisher = The Washington Times | date = 2004-04-09 | url = http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20040408-115045-8755r.htm | accessdate = 2007-01-28] In 1969 Loudoun County opened its third public high school amidst corn fields in Ashburn to accommodate the growing student populations resulting from new housing developments in the unincorporated communities in the eastern half of the county. Since then the county population has increased nearly seven-fold (most of it in the east), straining education budgets, infrastructure and local politics. [cite news | last = Sollinger | first = Shannon | title = School boundaries yes, budget no | publisher = Loudoun Times-Mirror | date = 2007-01-10 | url = http://www.zwire.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=17692714&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6 | accessdate = 2007-01-28] For Ashburn, this has resulted in constantly shifting attendance boundaries as new school after new school is opened every year, at all levels, elementary, middle and high. [cite news | title = Students On Waiting List In Fast-Growing Loudoun County | publisher = nbc4.com | date = 2006-09-05 | url = http://www.nbc4.com/education/9791377/detail.html | accessdate = 2007-01-28] The area’s student demographics have significantly changed as well: Loudoun County’s residents are now the country’s most affluent [cite news | last = Goldstein | first = Amy | coauthors = Dan Keating | title = D.C. Suburbs Top List Of Richest Counties | pages = A01 | publisher = The Washington Post | date = 2006-08-30 | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901543.html | accessdate = 2007-01-28] and its ethnic composition continues to diversify as foreign immigration into Northern Virginia increases.

No longer able to justify the sobriquet “Cornfield High”, Broad Run High School today is surrounded by tens of square miles of high density housing developments. However, in this dynamic environment the school continues to achieve academic and extracurricular excellence and recognition, leading regional and state schools in Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and No Child Left Behind AYB performance, as well as in such activities as forensics and sports.

History

Public education in Ashburn predates Broad Run's debut in 1969. In 1892 a school for African-Americans was built in Old Ashburn. At a cost of US$6,000 a separate school, known as Ashburn High School, was built for both elementary and high school white students in 1911. It was a four-room wood frame schoolhouse; additions to the original structure were made in 1922, 1930, and 1934. The school served white Ashburn students until February 14, 1944, when the entire building was destroyed by fire. Its replacement, an elementary-only brick structure, was constructed in 1945 and is still in use; known as the Ashburn Annex, it is a training center for the LCPS district and has also been used for Broad Run High School population overflow. [cite web | title = The History of Ashburn Schools | publisher = AshburnWeb | url = http://www.ashburnweb.com/history/histschl.htm | accessdate = 2006-12-25 ] [Freshmen were bussed in two daily shifts to the Annex in 1994 to alleviate overcrowding on the BRHS campus. (cite book | last = Yearbook Staff | title = The Shield (Vol. XXV) | publisher = Broad Run High School | year = 1994 | pages = p. 78)]

In the 1960s high school age children from eastern Loudoun County attended Loudoun County High School. As Dulles Airport and residential developments, such as Sterling Park, [cite web | last = Scheel | first = Eugene | title = With 'The Park,' County's Growth Battles Were Just Beginning | date = 2002-06-16 | url = http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/1961-Sterling-park.htm | accessdate = 2007-01-28] opened close to the Fairfax County border, Loudoun County High School's population began to outgrow the facility. The decision to construct a high school in rural eastern Loudoun County was made. The strain on Loudoun County High, however, was so severe that its eastern Loudoun students were temporarily schooled in the then-recently closed Douglass High School in Leesburg. Thus, the first Broad Run High School class was actually formed in 1968, a full year before the Broad Run Ashburn campus construction was completed. [cite book | last = Yearbook Staff | title = The Shield–1973 (Vol. IV) | publisher = Broad Run High School | year= 1973 | pages = p. 4] 1968 had been the first year that the county schools were completely racially integrated, making the previously all-black Douglass High School available as it closed and its population moved to other county schools. [cite paper | last = Morefield | first = Betty L. | coauthors = Bronwen C. Souders, Elaine E. Thompson | title = Black History Timeline| publisher = Friends of Thomas Balch Library, Inc. | date = November 2006 | url = http://www.balchfriends.org/AfricanAmericanTimeline.swf | format = SWF | pages = p. 26 | accessdate = 2007-10-28]

The campus of the district's third high school (Loudoun County High opened in 1954 and Loudoun Valley High School opened in 1962), opened its doors in 1969 to grades 8–12,cite book | last = Graham | first = Liz | coauthors = Nancy Scott| title = The Shield (Vol. I) | publisher = Broad Run High School |year= 1970] for students from all of Ashburn, Arcola, western Chantilly (now known as South Riding), and Sterling. Named for the nearby Potomac River tributary, Broad Run was dedicated on October 13, 1969. The ceremony's keynote address was delivered by then-Governor of Virginia, Mills E. Godwin Jr. [cite book | last = Graham | first = Liz | coauthors = Nancy Scott| title = The Shield (Vol. I) | publisher = Broad Run High School |year= 1970 | pages = p. 9] At the time, Loudoun's three high schools were not limited to 9^th through 12^th grades since there were no middle schools. Broad Run, therefore, had a "Thetamen" class for two years, its name for eighth graders (similar to calling ninth graders "Freshmen"). By 1973 the Thetamen were shifted to newly opened middle schools and in 1976 a portion of the Sterling student body was moved to Park View High School.The student population dropped from 1,550 in SY 1974/75 to 1,100 in 1975/76 as Sterling and Sugarland Run students shifted to Park View High School. (cite book | last = Yearbook Staff | title = The Shield (Vol. VII) | publisher = Broad Run High School | year = 1976 | pages = p. 10)] As the Ashburn area grew considerably, additional students shifted to Potomac Falls High School in 1997. [cite book | last = Khan | first = Amena | title = The Shield–1997 (Vol. XXVIII) | publisher = Broad Run High School | year= 1997 | pages = p. 81] Stone Bridge High School opened in 2000, which split the Ashburn student body into two different high schools. [cite web | title = Stone Bridge readies for opening | publisher = Loudoun Times-Mirror | url = http://www.loudountimes.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=775131&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=576934&rfi=8 | accessdate = 2007-01-09 ] Broad Run gave the remainder of its Sterling student population to Potomac Falls after Dominion High School opened in 2003 and shifted students in Brambleton to Stone Bridge.Fact|date=February 2007 In 2005, Broad Run split off its South Riding students to Freedom High School.Fact|date=February 2007

Enrollment history

Broad Run's student population averaged 1,486 students during the period 1995 – 2006. The county's steady population increases during this time resulted in accompanying student body expansions, periodically relieved as other high schools opened in eastern Loudoun County (note the population drops in the table below as these schools opened — Potomac Falls in 1997, Stone Bridge in 2000, Dominion in 2003 and Freedom in 2005).cite web | title = VA Dept of Education Fall Membership Data Collection (1995-2006) | publisher = Virginia Dept of Education |date= | url = http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Publications/rep_page.htm | accessdate = 2007-01-03]

Performance history for Broad Run students during the span from 2000 to 2006 shows a steady improvement in Math scores (note that the College Board added the Writing component to the examination for the first time in 2006, and the Critical Reading section was previously called Verbal). In 2006 the school was the only Loudoun County high school whose average SAT scores increased from the previous year. [cite news | last = Jackson | first = Charlie | title = Board Members To Press Study Of AYP Failures | publisher = leesburg2day.com |date= 2006-09-07 | url = http://206.246.124.100/current.cfm?catid=5&newsid=12461 | accessdate = 2007-01-01]

NCLB and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

To meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the state of Virginia utilizes its Standards of Learning (SOL) examinations as its progress measurement tool. NCLB requires states to set annual measurable objectives of proficiency in reading and mathematics, participation in testing, and graduation and attendance. These objectives are in addition to the high standards for learning and achievement required under Virginia’s SOL program. Schools and school divisions that meet the annual objectives required by the federal education law are considered to have made adequately yearly progress (AYP) toward the goal of 100 percent proficiency of all students in reading and mathematics by 2014.cite web | title = NCLB - School Report Card | publisher = Virginia Department of Education |date= 2006/2007 | url = http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/src/index.shtml | accessdate = 2006-12-24 ]

Broad Run has maintained Adequate Yearly Progress for the school years 2003 – 2004 through 2005 – 2006. The percentage of students passing the English and Math tests at Broad Run averages higher than Loudoun County as a whole, but lags slightly behind in Science by three points.

Extracurricular activities

Broad Run High School offers a number of extracurricular activities to its students and staff outside the regular instructional curriculum. All school sponsored clubs and activities are supervised by a faculty or staff member, although much of the organizational responsibilities are often handled by students. In addition to the fine arts, athletic and other programs detailed below, the extracurricular activities sponsored by the school range from service organizations (Environmental Club and Key Club) to academic (National Honor Society and Academic Team & Signet) to professional (DECA and FBLA) to cultural (Muslim Student Association, German Club, Gay-Straight Alliance and Spanish Club) to special interests (Chess Club and Dance Team). [cite web | title = Broad Run Activities Directory | publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |year= 2006 | url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/brhs/site/Directory_List.asp?byType=50 | accessdate = 2006-12-26 ]

Drama

In addition to its drama instruction, Broad Run students and staff produce and stage at least three major theatrical performances each year. These productions include a full-length play in the fall, a one-act play festival in the winter, and a musical in the spring. Participation in shows is open to all students, regardless of enrollment in a drama class. [cite web | title = Broad Run High School Drama | publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |year= 2006 | url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/509505495554/site/default.asp? | accessdate = 2006-12-26 ] 2005 and 2006 productions included "The Government Inspector", "The Secret Garden" and "Noises Off". [cite news | title = ‘Inspector’ Comes to Town at Broad Run
publisher = The Connection Newspapers |date= 2006-11-06 | url = http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=73835&paper=59&cat=124 | accessdate = 2007-01-02]

Band

Broad Run's band program includes over 100 students, with two concert bands (symphonic band and wind ensemble), a marching band, jazz, percussion and chamber ensembles, a jazz lab, and music theory classes.cite web | title = Broad Run High School Band Program | publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |year= 2006 | url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/50912573013211/site/default.asp? | accessdate = 2006-12-25 ] The program has won many awards and competitions over a three-decade history, both locally and at national competitions held in Orlando, Florida, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Walt Disney World, Atlanta, Georgia and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Broad Run has twice been named a Virginia Honor Band, the top award for bands in Virginia (1996 – 1997 and 2003 – 2004). [cite web | title = Virginia Honor Bands: Yearly History| publisher = Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association |date= | url = http://www.vboda.org/HonorBand/By%20Year.htm | accessdate = 2006-12-31] Broad Run students regularly win positions in the All Virginia Band and Orchestra, which consists of the top high school musicians in the Commonwealth.

Subsequent to Loudoun County Public Schools' initiating middle school string programs in 2002 to 6^th graders, Broad Run and the other nine Loudoun high schools also began string ensembles in the 2005 – 2006 school year.Fact|date=February 2007 Since Loudoun does not offer a full orchestra program at the high school level, students from upper level bands occasionally perform concerts with the combined strings classes. [cite web | title = Combined Charity/Orchestra Concert| publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |date= December 1, 2006| url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/509759161361/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=394152&C=72865 | accessdate = 2007-01-05] [cite web | title = LCPS High School Orchestra Concert| publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |date= May 17, 2006| url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/509759161361/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=367545&C=68531 | accessdate = 2007-01-05]

Color Guard

Broad Run's color guard program competes in both the fall and winter athletic seasons.cite web | title = Broad Run High School Color Guard | publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |year= 2006 | url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/5095091812210/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=72710 | accessdate = 2007-01-08 ] Under the direction of Catina Anderson since 1998 and now recently by Gina McGreggor since 2007, the Fall and Winter Guards have won almost every competition they have attended since 2001. The Fall Guard competes as a unit of the marching band (Marching Spartans), while the Winter Guard competes indoors independently against various guards from all across the Mid-Atlantic region.cite web | title = Broad Run High School Winter Guard History | publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |year= 2006 | url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/50950549574/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=68495 | accessdate = 2007-01-08 ] The 2006 show was dedicated to the "Race for the Cure" for breast cancer with the music selection and choreography tailored to the theme. In addition, the Winter Guard collected donations throughout the season to donate for breast cancer research and participate in the 2006 "Race for the Cure", raising US$8,825.17. In the same season, the combined Broad Run/Heritage Winter Guard won the Gold Medal in their division (Independent Regional A Class) at the Atlantic Indoor Association Championships in Raleigh, North Carolina.Their 2007 Winterguard, Airplane, received 4th at championships. Last year, the 2007 winterguard season, they performed "Ready, Set, Don't Go" and received the bronze medal at championships now at the Scholastic A1 class. [cite web | title = Broad Run High School Winter Guard | publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |year= 2006 | url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/50950549574/site/default.asp | accessdate = 2006-12-25 ]

Debate

The school has a successful debate team under the direction of Ron Richards, having won the inaugural AA State Championship in 2004, coming within two points of the title in 2005 (losing to cross-town rival Stone Bridge), and winning its tenth Group AA debate title since 1991 at the 2006 Virginia High School League (VHSL) Debate Tournament.cite web | title = Virginia High School League Book of Records (Tenth Edition - 2006-07) | publisher = Virginia High School League |date= 2006-12-12 | url = http://www.vhsl.org/recbook.pdf | format = PDF | accessdate = 2006-12-25] Prior to 2004, team championships were not awarded in debate at the state level, though Broad Run regularly filled the ranks of individual champions: from 2000 to 2006 Broad Run had 20 individual VHSL champions. A display case in the school is dedicated solely to trophies won by the debate teams "(see image)".

There are five types of debate that have active participation at Broad Run: Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Student Congress, Public Forum and Speech. [cite web | title = Broad Run High School Debate Team | publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |year= 2006 | url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/509505495637/site/default.asp | accessdate = 2006-12-25]

Publications

Students have a number of publishing education and experience opportunities, including "The Shield" (yearbook), "The Spartan" (newspaper) and a literary/visual arts publication titled "Unbound."

Athletics

Fact|date=August 2007

Broad Run is a member of the AA Dulles District of the Region II of the Virginia High School League, and sponsors girls and boys athletic teams in the following sports: baseball, boys and girls basketball, cheerleading, cross-country, football, golf, gymnastics, boys and girls lacrosse, boys and girls soccer, softball, boys and girls tennis, track, swimming, volleyball, and wrestling. [cite web | title = Broad Run High School - Fall Sports | publisher = Broad Run High School Athletic Department |year= 2006 | url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/50940661305/site/default.asp | accessdate = 2007-01-09] [cite web | title = Broad Run High School - Winter Sports | publisher = Broad Run High School Athletic Department |year= 2006 | url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/5094066132059/site/default.asp | accessdate = 2007-01-09] [cite web | title = Broad Run High School - Spring Sports | publisher = Broad Run High School Athletic Department |year= 2006 | url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/5094066132227/site/default.asp | accessdate = 2007-01-09] The mascot is a Spartan.

tate championships

Broad Run sports have achieved statewide recognition,cite book | title = Virginia High School League Book of Records, Tenth Edition - 2006-07 | last = Giles | first = Lisa | coauthors = Sharon Condoulis, Marshall Johnson | publisher = Virginia High School League |month= December | year= 2006 | url = http://www.vhsl.org/recbook.pdf] winning eleven state titles at the AA level:
* boys cross-country (1972 and 1974, runner-up in 1993)
* girls gymnastics (1991, runner-up in 1976, 1988, and 1990)
(note: A and AA were categorized for the purposes of gymnastics as one "unclassified" level)
* baseball (1991, runner-up in 1990)
* softball (2008, 2007, 2000, runner-up in 1994 and 2002 and Nationally ranked in 2008 as number one in the country)
* girls soccer (2008, 2001, runner-up in 2004 with a 20-3-1 record; additionally, Coach Claire Collins earned state co-Coach of the Year honors, the Region 2 and Dulles District Coach of the Year, and also won The Washington Post’s All Metropolitan Coach of the Year Award) [cite press release | title = Coaches honored at the college, high school and youth levels | publisher = National Soccer Coaches Association of America |date= 2005-01-14| url = | accessdate = 2007-01-02]

Numerous student athletes from the school have advanced to Division I and II sports programs across the nation. [cite web | title = The Roster - Softball - JMU Sports | publisher = JMU Athletics |year= 2007 | url = http://www.jmusports.com/Team/Players/5_Roster.asp?TeamID=5 | accessdate = 2007-01-01] [cite web | title = Broad Run’s Jackson Signs Letter of Intent with Flagler | publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |date= 2006-05-24| url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/509759161361/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=369043&C=68823 | accessdate = 2007-01-01] [cite web | title = Broad Run’s Morgan Signs Lacrosse Letter of Intent with Sacred Heart | publisher = Loudoun County Public Schools |date= 2005-12-22| url = http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/509759161361/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=341274&C=66258 | accessdate = 2007-01-01]

oftball and football

Like the school's band and debate team, Spartan softball has achieved a notable degree of success. The teams of 2000 and 2002 set new state records for various team categories, such as total runs scored in a season, consecutive shutout innings, total strikeouts in a season, and total strikeouts in one game. Christy Anch, pitcher for the Lady Spartans from 1999 – 2002, personally holds 22 individual state records in the Virginia High School League. On the other hand, the football program has experienced limited degrees of success since 2000, fielding only two teams with winning records (2003 and 2004 / 6-4 records) between 2000 and 2006.Fact|date=February 2007 Losing seasons in 2002 and 2005 led to the replacement of Ken Belchik as head coach with Michael Burnett in 2006. [cite news | last = Chortkoff | first = Mitch | title = Samohi Football Coach Takes Post In Virginia | pages = | language = English | publisher = Santa Monica Mirror Online |date= 2006-03-08 | url = http://www.smmirror.com/MainPages/DisplayArticleDetails.asp?eid=2740 | accessdate = 2006-12-22] The team's record was 5-5 in 2006. [cite news | last = Staff | title = Football Standings | pages = | language = English | publisher = Loudoun Times-Mirror |date= 2006-11-15 | url = http://www.loudountimes.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17464353&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=576934&rfi=8 | accessdate = 2007-01-08] In 2007, the Spartans had a perfect 10-0 regular season, winning the district championship, but lost to rival Park View High School in the first playoff round. [cite news | last = Tenorio | first = Paul | coauthors = | title = Park View Pulls It Out on Trick Play in 4th Quarter | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = The Washington Post | date = 2007-11-17 | url = http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com/news/2007/nov/17/parkview-broadrun/ | accessdate = 2007-11-17]

Spring 2007 was a particularly good season for most of that season's teams. The girls soccer, girls lacrosse, girls softball, boys baseball, boys lacrosse, and boys track teams all won their respective district titles. [cite news | last = Lofgren | first = Courtney | coauthors = | title = BR Spring Sport Supremacy Continues | work = | pages = 1 | language = | publisher = Broad Run High School | date = May 2007 (Vol. 39, No. 8) | url = | accessdate = 2007-06-09] The highlight of season was winning the girls fast-pitch softball state championship (Group AA), Broad Run's second in the past decade (won in 2000 and played in the championship 2002). [cite news | last = Hayes | first = Andy | coauthors = | title = Broad Run Wins Softball State Title with 8-0 Win | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = Gameday Magazine | date = 2007-06-09 | url = http://www.gamedaymagazine.com/2007/06/broad_run_wins_softball_state.php | accessdate = 2007-06-09] Ranked fifth in the nation by USA Today [cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title = USA TODAY/National Fastpitch Coaches Association High School top 25 | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = USA Today | date = 2007-06-14 | url = http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/softball/rankings.htm | accessdate = 2007-06-17] with a 29–0 record, the Lady Spartans defeated New Kent County High School for the championship behind Caitlyn Delahaba's pitching (no-hitter, 12 strikeouts). Delahaba attained 400 strikeouts in 2007, third place in Virginia High School League history for strikeouts in a season.cite news | last = Norris | first = Stephen A. | coauthors = | title = Tiplady Delivers for Broad Run | work = | pages = E08 | language = | publisher = The Washington Post | date = 2007-06-09 | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802444.html | accessdate = 2007-06-09]

Again, Spring 2008 proved to be another successful season for Broad Run's sports, including boys and girls track, lacrosse, baseball, and most notably, girl's soccer and softball. This year, the girls claimed victory in soccer's state championship, and for the second year in a row, the Lady Spartans under the leadership of Caitlin Delahaba completed a perfect, undefeated record in softball, winning the state championship and becoming the nation's best high school softball team according to USA today. In addition, Broad Run's softball team has become history's fourth greatest high school softball team with 57 straight game victories.

Rivalries

Broad Run's primary rival school is Stone Bridge High School, located about two miles (3 km) away. The rivalry between Broad Run and Stone Bridge has been intense, with large attendance at many of the football, soccer, softball, and specifically hockey games between the two schools.Fact|date=February 2007 However, since Stone Bridge moved to the AAA Liberty District in 2005, no football games have been scheduled between the two schools. Both schools still play each other in nearly every other sport.Fact|date=February 2007

Broad Run also enjoys rivalries with Park View High School in softball, Loudoun County High School in girls' basketball and girls' soccer, and Potomac Falls High School in boy's swimming and in boys' soccer.Fact|date=February 2007 The rivalry with Park View in particular has intensified since Stone Bridge's district change, as Park View was once a close rival when it opened in 1976, becoming – at the time – Broad Run's closest neighbor in eastern Loudoun County.

Notable Alumni

*Patton Oswalt, actor, writer, voiceover artist, and professional comedian: graduated in 1987; attended the College of William and Maryfact|date=September 2007
*Larry Izzo, professional football player for the new England Patriots, graduated in 1991; attended Rice University.fact|date=October 2008

References

Footnotes and citations

reflist|2

ources

*cite web
title = NCLB - School Report Card
publisher = Virginia Department of Education
date= 2006/2007
url = http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/src/index.shtml
accessdate = 2006-12-23
*cite book | last = Yearbook Staff | title = The Shield (Vols. I – XXXVII) | publisher = Broad Run High School |date= 1970–2006

External links

* [http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us/brhs Official Website]
* [http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us/ Loudoun County Public Schools website]

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group3 = Middle Schools
list3 = nowrap beginBelmont Ridge (Leesburg) !wBlue Ridge (Purcellville) !wEagle Ridge (Ashburn) !wFarmwell Station (Ashburn) !wHarmony Intermediate (Hamilton) !wHarper Park (Leesburg) !wJ. L. Simpson (Leesburg) !wMercer (Aldie) !w
River Bend (Sterling) !wSeneca Ridge (Sterling) !wSmart's Mill (Leesburg) !wSterling !wStone Hill (Ashburn)

group4 = High Schools
list4 = nowrap begin
Briar Woods (Ashburn) !w
Broad Run (Ashburn) !w
Dominion (Sterling) !w
Freedom (South Riding) !w
Heritage (Leesburg) !w
Loudoun County (Leesburg) !w
Loudoun Valley (Purcellville) !w
Park View (Sterling) !w
Potomac Falls (Sterling)

group5 = Alternative/
Magnet Schools
list5 = nowrap begin
C.S. Monroe Technology Center !w
Douglass School !w
Loudoun Academy of Science