Academy teacher arrested for possession of meth

Academy Early Childhood Careers Teacher Rachael Smith was arrested around 11:30 p.m. Thursday night for allegedly attempting to purchase methamphetamine off Little River Turnpike in Annandale. Officers also found the drug on her person.

Smith, who has worked for FCPS periodically since 1999, was charged with one count of possession of methamphetamine. She has been placed under administrative leave.

Boys lacrosse wins Chantilly's first district title

Continuing their undefeated season with a 9-7 win over the Oakton Cougars on May 9, the boys varsity lacrosse team advanced to region and won Chantilly’s first ever boys lacrosse district championship.

Five different players scored in the game, including senior attack and midfielder Kevin O’Neill, who had a hat-trick in the first quarter and amassed four goals by the games end. Read more...

Perfect season falls short

Although the girls varsity lacrosse team lost the Concorde District final game 14-13 to the Robinson Rams, senior attack Maya Ahronovich said the team could use it as motivation in the Northern Region Tournament.

“Even though we didn’t come out with a district title,” Ahronovich said. “Maybe that’s the motivation we need to help us in regionals.”

The team was down by three goals after the first half but came back to tie the game at 13 with five minutes to play. Read more...

Varsity baseball faces defeat

The varsity baseball team lost at home to the Robinson Rams 7-4 on May 2.

“Everything seemed to go wrong,” senior pitcher and first-basemen Patrick Moore said.

The team built a 4-2 lead and kept it until the top of the seventh inning, when Robinson scored 5 unanswered runs on just two hits.

“We allowed base-runners to get on without getting hits,” senior outfielder Chris Gentile said of the Ram’s comeback. The team used three pitchers in the final two innings alone.

Gentile contributed to the team’s 4-2 sixth-inning lead with two of the team’s three stolen bases in the third through sixth innings. Read more...

DECA goes international

After high finishes at the state competition, 12 members of Chantilly’s DECA chapter competed in the International Career Development Conference in Atlanta, Ga. From April 26 – 30. Students competed against over 14,000 other DECA members from around the world, including Guam, Puerto Rico, Canada and Germany.

The conference consisted of not only business and marketing related events, but also leadership, management and mentoring activities.

Out of the 12 members from Chantilly who competed, senior Auri Hughes was acknowledged as one of the top 20 finalists out of 250 competitors in the Sports and Entertainment Marketing Series Event. Hughes also was recognized as a top performer in the area of promotion.

Hughes, along with the other DECA members, studied his subject areas and consulted with experts in those fields to help prepare for the competition. Read more...

Olympiad teams takes group, individual state awards

The Science Olympiad team walked away from the state competition on April 26 with a sixth place finish. The team consisted of all Chantilly students participating in the competition. Students also won awards for placing in the top five of their individual events.

Members of the team could chose to study different areas of science, such as forensics, ecology, biology and robotics, for the final competition. The Olympiad consists of lab work as well as written assessments on the different subjects.

“They all had mentors, teachers or members of the community, who helped them study and prepare,” sponsor and A.P. Environmental Science teacher Anne Fenton said.

In the past few years interest in the club was decreasing as well as their performance at the state competition.

“The leadership has really put them on track so we could do better this year,” Fenton said. See the awards...