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Damascus High School
Damascus High School (DHS) is a public high school in Damascus, Maryland, United States. It is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools system. History Damascus High School was first established in 1909. The current building was constructed in 1950 and renovated in 1978. In 2020, MCPS approved a $127 million renovation of the high school. The renovation was originally planned for a 2025 completion date, but it was delayed repeatedly due to county fiscal concerns, and now has an indefinite timeline. Athletics Damascus' school colors are green and gold, and their mascot is the Swarmin' Hornet. The school's biggest rivalries are with the neighboring Seneca Valley High School and Clarksburg High School. Damascus has a prestigious football program which has won twelve Maryland state championships. This is a state record that they share with Seneca Valley High School (which also has twelve, but last won in 2002). The team's dominance from 2015 to 2017 earned them a 53-game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Damascus, Maryland
Damascus is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. In the early 20th century, there existed an incorporated municipality lasting a quarter century. It had a population of 17,224 as of the 2020 census. Damascus is located at the intersection of three major roads in upper Montgomery County: Ridge Road (currently Rt. 27), Damascus Road (currently Rt. 108) and Woodfield Road (currently Rt. 124). Name The name was first used in an official document in 1816, when the United States Congress approved a postal route through the area, operated by Edward Hughes. History The area currently known as Damascus was granted by the new U.S. state of Maryland to Nathaniel Pigman in 1783. On February 14, 1819, War of 1812 veteran Edward Hughes bought a section of the grant and began subdividing lots for sale. James Madison, the fourth U.S. president, appointed Hughes postmaster of the developing community of Damascus in 1816. Hugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bryan Bresee
Bryan Bresee ( ; born October 6, 2001) is an American professional football defensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Clemson Tigers and was selected by the Saints in the first round of the 2023 NFL draft. Early life Bresee played football at Urbana High School in Frederick, Maryland before transferring to Damascus High School in Damascus, Maryland. In both 2017 and 2019, he helped lead Damascus to state championship victories. Bresee was a five-star recruit coming out of high school and was ranked as the nation's top overall recruit by 247Sports. He committed to Clemson, turning down offers from Penn State, Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio State. He was named to the All-American Bowl following his senior season. College career Bresee started every game for Clemson as a freshman in 2020, recording 33 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss and four sacks. In the CFP Semi Finals, Bresee performed 2.5 tackles for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Public High Schools In Montgomery County, Maryland
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin '' publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from ''populus'', to the English word ' populace', and in general denotes some mass population ("the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Joe Tippett
Joe Tippett (born March 1, 1982) is an American actor. He is known for playing Sam Strickland in the NBC drama series ''Rise'' and John Ross in the HBO crime drama miniseries ''Mare of Easttown.'' Early life Tippett was born on March 1, 1982, and grew up in Damascus, Maryland. He attended Damascus High School, where he was on the football team. He was also involved in his school's theater department, where he performed in his first musical, ''Bye Bye Birdie''. After graduating from high school, he went to West Virginia University on a full scholarship but later dropped out. Career Tippett did an apprenticeship and worked his first professional job at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In 2015, he made his Broadway debut as Bait Boy in ''Airline Highway''. The same year, he played Earl Hunterson in the American Repertory Theater production of ''Waitress''. Two years later, Tippett played the leading man in the Off-Broadway production of ''All the Fine Boys.'' In 2018, Tippe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kevin Thompson (American Football)
Kevin James Thompson (born July 27, 1977) is a former professional American football quarterback. He has played in the National Football League (NFL), NFL Europe, and the Arena Football League (AFL). He was a two-year starter at Penn State University. He signed as a free agent with the Cleveland Browns following the 2000 NFL draft and played there for one season. Early life Thompson played basketball and football at Damascus High School in Damascus, Maryland. He recorded more than 4,000 passing yards during his career there and helped lead the football team to win a Maryland state championship in 1993. College career Thompson was a two-year starter at Penn State, he passed for six touchdowns as a junior in 1998 and led the Nittany Lions to a win over Kentucky in the Outback Bowl, in which he threw for 187 yards and a touchdown. As a senior, Thompson was a team captain and threw 13 touchdown passes and averaged 159.7 passing yards-per-game. He did not play in the Nittany Lions' 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brian Stelter
Brian Patrick Stelter (born September 3, 1985) is an American journalist best known as the former chief media correspondent for CNN and host of the CNN program ''Reliable Sources'', roles he held from 2013 to 2022. He returned to CNN in 2024. Stelter is also a former media reporter for ''The New York Times'' and editor of ''TVNewser''. Early life and education Stelter was born on September 3, 1985, in Damascus, Maryland, the son of Donna and Mark Stelter. He attended Damascus High School, graduating in 2003, followed by Towson University where he served as editor-in-chief of ''The Towerlight'' from 2005 to 2007. While still a student, he created ''TV Newser, TVNewser'', a blog about television and cable news which he later sold to Mediabistro and became a part of the ''Adweek'' blog network. Career After graduating from college in May 2007, Stelter joined ''The New York Times'' as a media reporter at 22, making him one of the youngest staff members at the time. In November 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Joel Ross (American Football)
Joel Ross may refer to: * Joel Ross (DJ) (born 1977), British DJ * Joel Ross (American football) (born 1992), American football cornerback * Joel Ross (tennis), American tennis player * Joel Ross (vibraphonist), American jazz musician {{Human name disambiguation, Ross, Joel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wake Forest Demon Deacons
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons are the college athletics in the United States, intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Wake Forest University, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I level as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Wake Forest has won a total of 11 national championships in six different sports; six of these championships have come since 2002. Wake Forest is sometimes referred to as being a part of "Tobacco Road (rivalry), Tobacco Road" or "The Big Four", terms that refer to the four North Carolina schools that compete heatedly against each other within the ACC; these include Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and North Carolina State University, North Carolina State, as well as Wake Forest. Originally, Wake Forest's athletic teams were known as The Old Gold and Black or the Baptists, due to its association w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michael Jurgens
Michael Jurgens (born January 1, 2000) is an American professional football center for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and was selected by the Vikings in the seventh round of the 2024 NFL draft. Early life and college Jurgens was born on January 1, 2000, and grew up in Damascus, Maryland. He attended Damascus High School where he was team captain and was a top offensive lineman, helping the team go 42–0 in his career. He was named first-team All-Met, All-State, and the team offensive lineman of the year as a junior, and then was first-team All-Met and the MCPS Coaches 3A-2A Player of the Year as a senior. He played at the Maryland Crab Bowl all-star game and set Damascus records for single-game, season and career pancake blocks. He committed to play college football for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons as a three-star recruit. Jurgens redshirted as a true freshman at Wake Forest in 2018 whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Super Bowl LVI
Super Bowl LVI was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2021 NFL season, 2021 season. The National Football Conference (NFC) champion 2021 Los Angeles Rams season, Los Angeles Rams defeated the American Football Conference (AFC) champion 2021 Cincinnati Bengals season, Cincinnati Bengals, 23–20. The game was played on February 13, 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the home stadium of the Rams, marking the second consecutive and second overall Super Bowl with a team playing and winning in its home stadium. The Rams' victory was their second overall, first as a Los Angeles-based team, and first since winning 1999's Super Bowl XXXIV when they were based in St. Louis Rams, St. Louis. Finishing with a 12–5 record, the Rams reached their fifth Super Bowl appearance after acquiring veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford, who had not won a playoff game in his previous 12 years with the Detroit Lions. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jake Funk
Jake Funk (born January 11, 1998) is an American professional football running back. He played college football for the Maryland Terrapins. In Maryland's four games during the 2020 season, which was shortened due to COVID-19, Funk averaged 129 rushing yards per game. He also led the Big Ten Conference and ranked second among all Football Bowl Subdivision running backs with an average of 8.6 rushing yards per carry. Funk was selected in the seventh round of the 2021 NFL draft by the Los Angeles Rams, and won a Super Bowl with the team in 2021. Early life Funk attended Damascus High School, where he was a heavily lauded football player. Funk was named the 2015 Maryland Gatorade Player of the Year as well as ''The Washington Post'' All-Metro Offensive Player of the Year for the same year, also earning two consensus all-state selections. In the state championship game his senior year, Funk scored a title-game record seven rushing touchdowns against Dundalk High School. Funk finishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
American Football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at each end. The offense (sports), offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped Ball (gridiron football), football, attempts to advance down the field by Rush (gridiron football), running with the ball or Forward pass#Gridiron football, throwing it, while the Defense (sports), defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance the ball at least ten yard, yards in four Down (gridiron football), downs or plays; if they fail, they turnover on downs, turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the Glossary of American football#drive, drive. Points are scored primarily b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
