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Maryland Basketball Recruit Gilchrist Has to Sit Out One Year; McLean Hires Patrick
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Augustus Gilchrist, a second-team All-Met forward last season who plans to enroll at Maryland for the second semester, will not be able to play for the Terrapins until the middle of next season and will lose one season of eligibility.
Atlantic Coast Conference associate commissioner Shane Lyons said that conference policy stipulates that if a recruit signs a National Letter-of-Intent with one member school but winds up enrolling at another school, that player must sit out one year of competition and lose one year of eligibility.
"That's the situation Augustus is in," Lyons said.
As a high school senior playing for Progressive Christian, Gilchrist had signed with Virginia Tech before deciding this spring not to attend that school.
He attributed the change to not feeling comfortable in Blacksburg after last April's campus shootings.
In September, he committed to play for Maryland.
Gilchrist could not be reached yesterday. Coach Gary Williams declined to comment.
McLean Hires Coach
McLean High School named Jim Patrick its new football coach.
Patrick, 25, a Hayfield graduate who had been an assistant at Hylton the past four years, is the son of former Mount Vernon coach Bruce Patrick, whose team won the state title in 1983.
Patrick replaces Rick Rivera, who resigned last month after leading the Highlanders to a 12-28 record in four seasons.
McLean Athletic Director Tom Herman said there were 14 applicants for the job; the school interviewed five.
Soccer in South America
Three girls' soccer players in the area are taking part in a game tomorrow that is part of a three-game, under-17 international series in Buenos Aires.
National Cathedral freshman Camila Notaro, who plays midfielder and forward, is on the Uruguayan team. Tiffany McCarty of St. John's and Christine Nairn of Spalding are on the United States roster. . . .
In just its first season playing a varsity schedule, the North Point girls' basketball team is 2-0. That includes a 42-36 win over Thomas Stone, which reached the playoffs last season. . . .
Lauren Massie, a senior forward on the West Springfield girls' basketball team, has signed to play for Bentley (Mass.) College.
Bentley is ranked among the top 25 teams in NCAA Division II.
Staff writer Preston Williams and special correspondent Ryan Mink contributed to this report.
