The 2022 – 2023 high school hockey season has concluded. Congratulations are being sent out to Walter Johnson for winning their first ever Maryland Student Hockey League championship. The thrilling 5-4 victory over Churchill in the state final ended the Bulldogs nine season run as rulers of high school hockey in the Maryland/DC area. With most of their team returning next season, Churchill will by far be anointed as the pre-season number one team in the area.
Walter Johnson made it a two fer by also winning the Montgomery Hockey Conference junior varsity championship.
As Upper Montgomery looks to a very bright future, the program will be graduating five seniors, team captain George Benedick, Ethan Hockey, Andrew Gean, Stephen Shkeda, and Lucas Eyman. A huge thank you to these five student athletes for everything they brought to the program over the past four seasons. They were the last link to the program that transitioned from Damascus, et al. to the Upper Montgomery Lightning, and they helped so much with the transition and the transformation of the Lightning program over the past four years.
Congratulations to Nathan Cassel for being named honorable mention Montgomery Hockey Conference Division One forward.
Spring hockey begins next month. There were eleven prospective student athletes who attended the spring season introductory webinar. The team is looking forward to these new student athletes taking the ice just after spring break.
#Our Time, #UML, #Bleed Green, #Go Bolts!