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Fall Teams Celebrate a Banner Season
The Spring 2024 edition of St. Andrew’s magazine featured a cover story on the impact of the decision made more than 25 years ago to move the school’s athletics teams from the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference to the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAC) for boys sports and the Independent School League (ISL) for girls sports. Now, just a few months later, the Lions had one of their most successful fall seasons in school history.
The volleyball team, fresh off winning the ISL tournament in 2023, added an undefeated conference season and regular-season title to their portfolio, winning a second-straight ISL banner. The team was 6-0 in the conference, dropping just two sets to ISL opponents on the season. This was the third ISL banner for volleyball and first back-to-back.
The girls soccer team also had an unbeaten regular season in conference play, winning five games and tying one as they were regular-season co-champions, their first title in 20 years and third since moving to the ISL. In conference play, the Lions outscored their opponents, 22-6.
Boys soccer, meanwhile, rode a hot streak in October to advance to the conference championship game. The Lions, who were one of two teams to not lose to the league’s top team in the regular season finished the conference slate going 3-1-1 to clinch third place in the MAC standings, then earned 1-0 and 3-2 (OT PK) wins in the conference tournament to make the championship game.
The success wasn’t limited to team success as 13 student-athletes were named to All-MAC or All-ISL teams. Norah Oppenheim ’25 and Eireni Scott ’28 were selected for volleyball, Emma Antonetti ’26, Lucy Bobb ’26, and Kosette Koons-Peridikis ’25 were named in girls soccer, Kate Odell ’25 earned the honor in cross country, Siena Propst ’27 and Ellie Rand ’25 were tabbed in girls tennis, Andrew Orsi ’25 nabbed a selection in golf and Kir Zajmi ’25, Lucas Zandamela ’25, Elijah Chambers '25, and Dustin Azad '27 (Honorable Mention) were selected in boys soccer.
After the fall season, on National Signing Day, five student athletes from the Class of 2025 officially signed National Letters-of-Intent to compete in NCAA Division I level next fall. Kata Buttrey (Women's Lacrosse - George Mason University), Miles Franklin (Men's Basketball - Columbia University), Riley Knakmuhs (Women's Lacrosse - Furman University), Koons-Perdikis - (Women's Soccer - Duke University) and Jake Steinman (Mens Soccer - Colgate University).
“It’s been very rewarding watching so many of our fall sports teams compete at a championship level,” said Kevin Jones, Director of Athletics. “It is a testament to the culture set forth and created by our coaches along with the hard work and daily commitment by our scholar-athletes. – all with tremendous support from the St. Andrew's community.”
“I am proud that we are able to achieve this success while upholding the core values of St. Andrew's. In the summer, the athletic department provided professional development for our coaches and provided resources and research to help them get to know their players on a more personal level. I like to attribute some of this success to the personal connections coaches made with players, and how that translated to performance on the playing fields.”
This was the first time since 2005-2006 that St. Andrew’s has won multiple ISL banners in the same season and the first time in school history that an ISL banner has been raised in three straight seasons, beginning with softball in 2022-2023 and volleyball in 2023-2024.
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School is a private, coeducational college preparatory day school for students in preschool (Age 2) through grade 12, located in Potomac, Maryland.