Allegany County Maryland--Biography

Kaitlynn Fratz, Garrett County's "Most Prolific Scorer"

Kaitlynn Fratz graduated from Northern High School in Garrett County in 2011. At this writing she has the distinction of being "the most prolific scorer in Garrett County high school basketball history."
This includes both boy's as well as girl's basketball, with records going back to 1953 with the opening and first graduating classes of both Northern and Southern Garrett County high schools.

The following article appeared in the January 2, 2014 edition of the Cumberland Times -News:

Lauren Francillon and Micah Wormack, Basketball

Lauren Francillon of Southern High School in Garrett County and Micah Wormack of Allegany High School in Allegany County both graduated in 2016. Both had exceptionally fine and record-breaking careers and are going onto college to continue their education. The following information is excerpted from two articles written by Chris Appel appearing in the June 18, 2016 edition of the Cumberland Times-News:

Iron Mountain Roller Girls

The following information, as well as the team skating photograph, is from an article entitled, “Skater: Iron Mountain Roller Girls ‘becomes part of your family’ ” by Teresa McMinn, Cumberland Times-News, August 12, 2019:

Fort Hill High School State Girls Volleyball Champions, 2013

On November 16, 2013, Fort Hill became the second Allegany County high school to capture the Maryland State Women's Volleyball Championship. Fort Hill completed a perfect undefeated 19-0 season in College Park by defeating a school from Baltimore County for the 1A title.

In 2008, Fort Hill High School won the Maryland Class 1A State Girls Softball Championship. The team members as depicted in this photograph are as follows:

First row, left to right - Brittany Hines, Lauren Fansler, Adria Lewis, Destiny James, Becca Valentine

Second row - Alyssa Yost, Olivia Stanley, Cierra Miller, Lindsey Fisher, Shari Beavers, Alex Schupfer, Kathryn Huber, Brittany Whiteman, Acacia Squires

The first known girls' basketball game to take place in Allegany County occurred on the afternoon of March 1, 1910. This was an exhibition game between the Blues and the Whites which was played in the basement of Allegany County High School. The girls wore white middies, very full black bloomers, fastened well below the knees, and black cotton stockings. One basket was used during the game which was won by the Whites by a score of 27-25. A girls' athletic association was formed during that same year.

From: "The Golden Jubilee Magazine of Allegany High School, 1889 -1938"

On July 17, 1979 eleven year old Crystal Fields of Cumberland won the national championship in her division in the National Pitch-Hit-Run Competition which was held in Seattle, Washington. A reception in her honor was held later in the week by the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland where Crystal received the, “Key to the City of Cumberland”.
 

Allegany County resident, Mary Eversole, was the 2006 Maryland State Class A Horseshoe Women’s Champion. She also won this title seven of the last eight years. In 1999, over a period of three days in 95-degree weather, Mary competed against 45 other women in the World Horseshoe Tournament and was a Bronze Medalist.

In her own words, Mary says, “I really enjoy the game. It’s not something I feel I have to do, but something I do because it’s fun. That’s the key to winning.”
 

Marie Boyd Eichler

It was February 25, 1924 and the six-girl basketball team of Lonaconing Central High School was going up against Ursuline Academy of Cumberland. Lonaconing would go on to win by the lop-sided score of 163 to 3.

Central’s Marie Boyd would go into the Guinness Book of World Records for scoring 156 points in the game. She is still listed first in the National High School Sports Record Book for most points scored and field goals made (77) in a single six-girl basketball game.

The Cumberland Heat

In 1996 the United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) authorized women’s fast-pitch softball. It was immediately established in Maryland, and the Cumberland Heat was founded.