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The Poolesville High School Booster Club is an organization whose primary mission is to raise money to support and supplement the athletic program at PHS. Our student-athletes have responded by representing their school in an extraordinary manner — with class, sportsmanship, and effort.
As the county school budget continues to tighten, the athletic department is left more and more to fend for itself. Without the continuing support of the Booster Club, much of the team equipment and facilities improvements could not be done … read more
Booster Club Meeting Schedule
Mark your calendar for the next Booster Club quarterly meeting. Meetings are held in the ISP Hub at 6:30 pm. All are welcome to attend.
Upcoming Meetings
- March 5
- June 4
Falcons in the News
Wrestlers Start the Season Strong
November 2024
by Jeff Stuart, The Monocacy Monocle

School wrestling coach Chris Tao. “They have put in the off-season work. They are wrestling hard. They are wrestling tough. We have a lot of freshmen that have joined the team this year, so right now, we are relying on our upperclassmen to show them the ropes and teach them how wrestling works and our expectations and how to conduct themselves … read more on page 20
Nancy Hopkinson Looks Back
November 2024
by Jeff Stuart, The Monocacy Monocle

“They called me ‘Hoppy,’” said Nancy Hopkinson, field hockey coach at PHS from 1980 to 1999, thinking back on her time at Poolesville. Nancy,
who lives in South Carolina now, also coached boys’ tennis and swimming. She was inducted into the Poolesville Athletic Hall of Fame in 2018 … read more on page 1
Falcon Cross Country Boys, Second in States, Girls Sixth
November 2024
by Jeff Stuart, The Monocacy Monocle
On Saturday, November 9 at Hereford High School, the PHS boys finished second in the forty-ninth running of the MPSSAA Cross Country State Championships. The girls finished sixth. Senior Connor Kohne finished sixth for the boys. Junior Garrett Simons was ninth. Sophomore Ethan Dimmerling was eighteenth … read more on page 16
Falcon football closes with a win at Watkins Mill
November 2024
by Jeff Stuart, The Monocacy Monocle
On Friday, November 1, the Poolesville High School football team finally got a win. For the second straight year, the Falcons defeated Watkins Mill in the final game of the regular season, but this time the game was at Watkins Mill and not in front of the home fans. The game was scoreless at the end of the first quarter. With ten minutes to go in the second quarter, senior Jack Stokes kicked a twenty-three-yard field goal, and he added a sixteen-yard field goal with under a minute to go until the half … read more on page 24