2003-2010 Presidents Award Winners

Scott Goodman
Scott Goodman, is the voice girls basketball at Albemarle HS. While Scott started out announcing football and boys basketball at AHS it did not take long for him to become a strong advocate for girl's sports. He gave them prominent coverage for volleyball and basketball and he always did so on equal terms with the boys sports. Since the fall of 1976 Scott has been a living example of the practical application of Title IX. Every play he calls reinforces that girls can play and that Women in Sports is important. He continues to be their verbal beacon today.

In his own way Scott Goodman has been helping us PAY IT FORWARD, since 1976. He continues to advance our cause with each game that he broadcasts. Scott has been using his pipes for 34 consecutive years in support of female student-athletes. It is truly fitting that we offer our gratitude to Scott being 'behind the mike' for us all these years. Thank you and congratulations, Scott Goodman!

Anita Jenkins
Albemarle High School Girls Basketball Coach Anita Jenkins. Coaches are role models, mentors, task masters and cheerleaders. They help mend the aches and pains of losing and they know how to help message them into character-builders. Coach Jenkins has been all that and more during her 21 years as head basketball coach at Albemarle. Her lifetime won/loss record is 290 wins and 190 losses.

Her teams have won 5 district championships, 14 district runner-up finishes, had 3 undefeated district seasons and missed the elite 8 at the state level one time by a bucket.

Deb Tyson, Albemarle Athletic Director, says is best. "Coach Anita Jenkins has been a loyal Patriot for 24 years, serving as either an Assistant or Head Coach in the Patriot Girls Basketball program. Her greatest contribution as a coach has nothing to do with what kind of press she uses, or offense she runs or line-up she puts on the floor. Her greatest gift to our student-athletes has been her teachings of life – the lessons of family, adversity, strength, perseverance, faith, healing, trust and loving your teammate. She is clear on her role as a teacher of life skills and consistent with keeping the right perspective on what the entire experience and focus of interscholastic sports is about.

She has been a tremendous role model to our young women by demonstrating and exemplifying all of these values while still producing respectable basketball players on the court year after year. Albemarle was fortunate to have Coach Jenkins in our department for 24 years. She leaves behind memories of a coach that gives from the heart and leads with class and style . . . often while sporting a pink silk pant suit." Thank you and congratulations Coach Jenkins!

Elizabeth is a senior at STAB. She qualified to participate as an individual at the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association State Championship at Fauquier Springs Country Club on May 18. She was the co-medalist with an even-par round of 71, earning her All-State honors and recognition as a Division I Player of the Year.

The only girl on the St. Anne’s varsity golf team, Elizabeth carded the low score for the spring season with a 36, and her scoring average set the team low. She medaled in 4 of 6 matches played. The Virginia Golf Foundation awarded the Spencer-Wilkinson Award to her, the highest honor bestowed by the Virginia State Golf Association’s Women’s Division.

Raleigh Davis, a senior at Western Albemarle High School and is in her third year as a member of the boy’s Varsity Golf team. As a 9th grader she lettered in golf and made All District Honorable Mention. In the 10th grade she lettered and made All District 2nd Team.

This fall Raleigh opened with a 77 at Spring Creek in a mini District match and carded a couple of even par rounds in addition to a one under par score in a 9 hole match.

The Charlottesville community is blessed to have AMAZING people, such as our next recipient, who labor countless hours behind the scenes to create, implement, nurture and grow ideas and visions that they hold dear as well as being exceptional athletes in their own right. Our next recipient is Cynthia Lorenzoni – Cynthia moved to Charlottesville in 1980 where she married Mark and opened the Ragged Mountain Running Shop. Over the years Cynthia has amassed a large and varied collection of running accomplishments including winning the Marine Corps Marathon two times; a 13th place finish at the Boston Marathon; was ranked as the top female marathoner in Virginia for a 4 year period of time; ran in the first ever US Olympic Marathon Trials for women and was only the second woman to be inducted into the Marine Corps Marathon Hall of Fame.

Cynthia innocently made national news in 1976 when Olympian Amby Burfoot refused his first place award (a television) at the Manchester Turkey Trot because the race director did not award prizes to women, which was a common national practice at that time. He protested by instead handing the television to an unsuspecting teenager who was the women’s winner. Cynthia’s wide-eyed face was captured in a photograph that was featured in national newspapers.

There is an annual event in September of each year in Charlottesville that is the manifestation of a dream of Cynthia’s. She is the co-founder of the extremely successful Charlottesville Women’s Four Miler where thousands of women run each September, many who have NEVER done so before, to raise funds to battle Breast Cancer. Cynthia is a Charlottesville treasure. She was presented with a WinS President's Award because of all the countless sacrifices that she made as an athlete and for all that she does for our community. Congratulations Cynthia Lorenzoni!

Coach Ragland has been described as a ‘veteran coach who is known for his high competitive nature as well as his consistency on a day-to-day basis’. He has been around the sport for more than 30 years, 20 of which has been as AHS’s coach.

In October of 2007 Mark Ragland reached a huge coaching milestone with his 400th career victory. Coach Ragland keeps all these wins in perspective however. For him ‘watching a group of girls become more confident and hearing about the lessons they have learned from playing volleyball’ are the most precious memories that he takes away from coaching. Congratulations Coach Mark Ragland!