Riverside Parents, 

The purpose of this communication is to provide information regarding athletics this upcoming spring season at Riverside.  

ATHLETIC PAPERWORK:

All students must have submitted a current VHSL Physical AND have completed the online registration in order to tryout for any spring sport.   Instructions are posted on RiversideRams.Net under “Required forms for Participation.”  Please scan and email the completed physical to Matt.Oblas@LCPS.org.  Parents, if you would like to confirm your child’s paperwork/eligibility, please email your head coach.

Important Dates:

Tryouts begin Monday, February 23.  Since grass sports will not have the ability to be on grass for the first week, tryout times for the February 23-25 folllow:

Track and Field 4:30 @ the track

Baseball: 4:30pm in the gyms

Softball: 4:30pm in the gyms

Tennis: 4:30pm on the tennis courts

Girls Lacrosse: 4:30pm on practice turf

Boys Soccer: 4:40-6:20 in the stadium

Girls Soccer: 6:20-8pm in the stadium (arrive at 6pm on day one)

Boys Lacrosse: 8-10pm in the stadium (arrive at 7:45pm on day one)

Crew: at Maverick Rowing Center 43465 Riverpoint Dr. Lansdowne.  Monday times: 4:45-6pm all girls. 6-7pm Novice Boys. 7-8pm Varsity Boys.  

BOOSTER CLUB MEMBERSHIP:

The Riverside Athletic Booster Club continues to support all Riverside athletic programs with great generosity.   All funds collected by the booster club (membership, concessions, corporate sponsorship advertising) goes completely to our athletic programs.  This past year, the booster club gave over $65,000 directly to our teams!   Booster club membership is again available to families.  We would love for all families to become members of the booster club.  Tax-deductible membership only costs $40 and is available to sign up at https://threshold.formstack.com/forms/rams_athletic_booster  .   Senior families must be members in order to be eligible for booster club senior scholarships.  

ATHLETIC ADMISSION AND SEASON PASSES:

GoFan is the digital athletic ticketing provider for LCPS this year and moving forward.  Admission for LCPS athletic contests for the 2024-25 school year remains $7 per person (under 6 and over 62 years of age are free.)  LCPS season passes are also on sale and are valid for admission for the immediate family in the same home, and grant permission for all home regular season games at Riverside (there also an option for all home and away LCPS games).  Season passes are a great savings for families who will attend at least a handful of home games throughout the school year.  The link to purchase season passes is not yet available for next year, but will soon be available at GoFan.com (search Riverside HS Leesburg).

STAY CONNECTED WITH RIVERSIDE ATHLETICS:

-RiversideRams.Net is the primary website/source of athletics information (schedules, department updates, team news and calendars, etc.)

-Sign up to receive email alerts on RiversideRams.Net (select your team/s)

-Follow us on twitter at @RVHSRamsSports

-Follow us on Instagram at @rvhs_sports

Spring Coaches Contacts:

Baseball: Sam.Plank@LCPS.org

Boys Crew: Dpassar12@gmx.com 

Boys Lacrosse: Nicholas.Worek@LCPS.org

Boys Soccer: Kieranp.Harris@gmail.com 

Boys Tennis:Steven.Barbosa@yahoo.com 

Girls Crew: Trevor.Barry@LCPS.org 

Girls Lacrosse: Jennifer.High@LCPS.org

Girls Soccer: Joshua.Goddard@Loudoun.Gov

Girls Tennis: Janine.Jones@LCPS.org

Softball: Paigeknussmansb@gmail.com

Track and Field: MayaWhitfield08@gmail.com

MAKE MONEY FOR YOUR TEAM

 The Riverside Athletic Booster Club has tremendous opportunities to raise money for your team.  By selling a sponsorship banner, 100% of the banner profit goes directly to the team of your choosing.  If you own a business, work for a business, have a lead with a business, please consider selling this advertising opportunity with banner sponsorship at our athletic venues.  The banner sponsorship program is available at https://riversiderams.net/main/bfiles.  Make the connection with the business, then connect the business with the athletic office, and we’ll take it from there.  This is a great way for teams to fundraise, and for parents to help those teams.

PREFER TO MAKE A DONATION TO THE ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB:

 You can always  make a tax deductible donation to the athletic booster club (feel free to designate that to a certain team).  Three ways to donate:  1. Venmo: @Go_Rams, 2. PayPal: RiversideRams@outlook.com, 3. Mail at check made payable to the “Riverside Athletic Booster Club” to 19019 Upper Belmont Place Leesburg, VA 20176.

 NFHS NETWORK TO WATCH ATHLETIC CONTESTS.  

LCPS and Riverside continues its partnership with the NFHS Network to broadcast our Rams athletic events LIVE.  That means that if you or family members can’t make it to the game, the live action can be watched from anywhere on your phone, tablet, computer or smart TV.  Anyone with a subscription can watch any of our athletic contests.  By subscribing to the NFHS Network you get full access to all content on the network for our school and any other broadcast nationwide!  Subscribing is easy: 1. Go to NFHSNetwork.com.  2.  Enter “Riverside High School—Leesburg, VA” in the search box.  3. Click “Follow” so you can stay up to date on all upcoming Rams broadcasted events.  4. Click “Subscribe” for all subscription options for our school.  This subscription is made with the NFHS Network, not LCPS.  The subscription can be monthly or annual.  Note that the subscription allows viewing for any game on the NFHS Network in the country, as well as all main gyms, stadiums, most baseball fields, and most softball fields in LCPS.