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Burke Soccer stalwart, Romy Hernandez was featured in last week’s Northwest Current.  The article highlights his role on his travel team, the Baltimore Bays Chelsea, which just won the National Title in their age bracket.  But, just as importantly, it also focuses on why Romy, who had his pick of schools, chose to play and [...]

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Ceviche Cooks

Though Ceviche didn’t make it through to the second course round of 16, the team did close out the Summer 2010 season with plenty of chiles.  The squad, which also goes by the Fish, Raw Fish, Pink and many other savory and unsavory names, includes various Burke friends and family.  Some Burkies grace the photo [...]

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Yesterday, as a warm-up to the fast advancing World Cup, Burke held its first annual El Mundialito Soccer Championship 2010.  As you can see from the photos below and at BurkePix, there were several teams wearing the colors of powerful soccer nations, including Brazil, France, Netherlands and Lichtenschlang. You had players of all grades, sizes [...]

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Marcus in the Hooouuusssse!

Ceviche (the DC soccer league team manned and womanned by various so-called adult Burke-ified players) had a rocky start to its Spring season – opening 0 and 2.  Things were headed in the wrong direction as the team went into yesterday’s game.  The team needed a major shake up.  We needed to call in the [...]

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Ceviche: Always In Season

For those that don’t follow the “beautiful game,” Ceviche is the football crew made up of Burke folks and friends of Burke folks, all assembled and ably marinated by that tall guy you may recognize in the picture to the left (click photo to embiggen). The “Fish” have multiplied like rabbits, with enough players for [...]

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High Note

Burke Mens Soccer opened the ’09 PVAC playoffs with an exclamation point victory over Sandy Spring.  Tied at 2 after 2 overtimes – the game came down to penalty kicks.  Let’s just say Sam H. was “lights out” saving not one, but two PKs.  Not too shabby.  On to the Semi’s! Photos courtesy of Rick [...]

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Sweden Covers Burke Soccer

Time to head back to Andra Sidan, for the report on yesterday’s Burke Middle School Boys Soccer  victory… on PK’s!  It’s so exciting that, thanks to Burke dad, Peter Andréasson, you can read it twice – once in English and once in Swedish.  Now on to the quarter-finals!

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Homecoming ’09

According to Wikipedia, the first homecoming football game took place at the University of Missouri in 1911.  Burke puts its own spin on the tradition with its own 2009 homecoming football game at RFK.  It was a packed house of students, alums, teachers, parents, sibs, pets, etc… and dwiseguy captured it all on ‘film.’

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The Rap of the Ancient Midfielder*

The following unfinished verse was very recently discovered in the library at Cambridge and is believed to have been penned by Samuel Coleridge in a stupor after attending a particularly exciting sporting event.  I am fairly certain that this Coleridge ditty has not yet been studied in AP English: I am an ancient footballer Limping [...]

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Soccer Doubleheader

It was standing room only at the Women and Men’s Varsity Soccer games this past Monday at UDC.  The results this time didn’t go Burke’s way, but both team’s played the ‘beautiful game‘ and left it all out on the pitch.  If you weren’t there, you can catch all the action from both games at [...]

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Rookies Carry

The middle school soccer pre-season got underway last week.  Wahoo!  As with all pre-seasons across the globe: rooks carry the bags!!  You can find this and other photos at BurkePix.

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On Saturday, Ceviche, aka Raw Fish or Pink, etc., entered the first round of the DC Co-ed Adult Soccer Playoffs.  The other team, more highly ranked than Ceviche, showed up in what it claimed to be pink jersies (they looked more salmon to these eyes), causing Ceviche to don yellow pennies.  Nontheless, Cevich made sashimi [...]

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Meetings

This saturday I went to a morning meeting and had to miss co-coaching my daughter’s soccer game.  This week her team was playing Malia Obama’s team.  I didn’t feel that bad about missing the game – we had already seen Malia’s team play a couple of weeks ago when we had arrived early to warm [...]

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