Current News from MMA

MMA Football Creeps Quietly in the Top 5  
posted 25 September 2007

Athletic Director and Head Football Coach, Rich Chiarolanzio, posted the latest state football rankings and The Colonels cracked the top 5 this week.  He stated the football team is looking very strong and has more depth than in recent years.  It is the first time in 3 years MMA has been in the top 10 in football.  Coach Chiarolanzio added with a win next week, we could be as high as number 2 in the state.  Good Luck Colonels!!!

Information Needed for the Yearbook  
posted 24 September 2007 

ATTENTION PARENTS!!

We are requesting your help in creating the senior cadet's yearbook pages.  The following are the guidelines for your cadet’s senior page in the 2007-2008 yearbook.  Most of theses items will be collected in your child’s english class.  However, we would appreciate your help in locating the needed pictures.  Also, you may want to give some advice to your child as to what he or she might want to include on their page . We need the follwing:

  - 4 pictures of your choice with one of  them being a baby picture. NOTE: Pictures cannot contain anything that would be considered unsuitable by the academy
  - A  quote

  - A senior will. Ex: “I will my…”

  - A shout out to friends, family, role models, etc…

  - Major accomplishments in high school. Ex: awards, sports, etc…

The pictures must be turned in by December 3 or your child will not have a senior page. You can have your cadet turn them into the yearbook staff or mail/e-mail them directly to the following address:

Ms. Kim Petersen
Massanutten Military Academy
614 S. Main Street
Woodstock, VA 22664
kpetersen@militaryschool.com                                

Thank You,                                                                            Yearbook Staff

MMA Football rolled to a season opening win over Quantico with a final score of 40 – 7. MMA took the field with one if its largest high school football teams in years as 46 players stack the sidelines this season.

Quantico stepped onto the field and showed they were ready to play as they opened the scoring with in the first 5 minutes of the game jumping out to an early 7 – 0 lead. The lead how ever was very short lived as on the ensuing kick off, Marques Jordon returned the kick off 75 yards for a touch down to tie the score at 7 – 7. After MMA kicked off and the Defense buckled down, Norman Fields stepped in front of a screen pass in the Quantico back field and returned it all the way to make the score 14 – 7 MMA, a lead that would then stand up for the rest of the game.

The MMA Defense again stepped up and shut down Quantico to give the ball back to the MMA Offense who started to move down the field and Marques Jordon took a QB option around the right side with key blocks along the way took it all the way for another Touch Down but the extra point failed raising MMA’s lead to 20 – 7.

On the next MMA Drive QB Banks Gray hit Thomas Hazel on a crossing pattern that he turned into a catch and run for another MMA Touch Down, again the extra point failed giving MMA a 26 -7 lead. On MMA’s last possession of the First Half, Yannick Morgan-Welch turned a broken play (snap over the QB’s Head) into a touch down as he scooped up the ball and ran around the right side and running over the final 2 players into the end zone to give MMA a 32 – 7 half time lead. In the second half, with all of MMA’s Players seeing a lot of playing time, there was no scoring until the forth quarter when Evan Woodfork took a sweep around the left end 70 yards for MMA’s Final Score and a 2 point extra point to give MMA its final score of 40 – 7.

MMA Football looked good in the season opener, but still had several first game mistakes that they need to over come. But the season is off to a great start as the team sits at 1 – 0 and ready to take on the Virginia Home School Team next week (8 September) in week 2 of the season. Come on out and enjoy the fun and support the Colonels at home at 2:00pm Saturday 15 September as they go for win number 3 on the season.

MMA Boy Scout Troop 1899 reunited for the first time this school year to travel for the weekend to the Annual Oceana Air Show at Virginia Beach.

After a long bus ride down to Naval Air Station Oceana, the cadets were rewarded with several night-time fly-bys with US Navy Jets and a closing fireworks display.

Boy Scout Troop 1899 from MMA linked up with Troops 52 and 100 from Front Royal and Luray to share meals, barracks space, and general camaraderie.

Saturday was a full-day of air-show events starting with several parachute teams and their acrobatic displays.  The cadets were able to roam freely around the Air Show Grounds inquiring information from colleges, power tool companies, static plane displays and (most exciting) entering simulation centers offered by the different branches of the armed services. The crowd was also entertained by several old propeller type planes with their spiraling acts to the newest and sleekest jets, the F-22 "Raptor" and the F-114 "Stealth" Bomber.  The Air show concluded with the grandest display of air acrobatics from the famous "Blue Angels."  Their 45-minute show left the crowd with sore necks and gasping mouths.  The Boy Scouts concluded the evening with an inter-troop "Ultimate Frisbee" match on the beach as the