Sports (ACWH)

The 2004 Beall High School State Champions in Women’s Softballl

Front row: Emily Livingston, Sara Harris, Tasha Wilhelm, Kacey Kahl, Theresa Murray, Melissa Miller
Back row: Katy Holcomb, Kate Rephann, Whitney Wilson, Corrie Felker, Kaiti Robinson, Amy Williams.

Martha Mauzy served as the head coach of the 2004 Beall High School State Championship team, as well as the 2012 Mountain Ridge High School State Championship team.
 

On May 29, 2010, the Allegany High School Girls Softball Team won the Maryland Class 1A State Championship. Allegany High School also won the State Championship in 1999, 2022 and again in 2024. The game was played at the University of Maryland's Robert E. Taylor Stadium in College Park, Maryland.

The Allegany High School Girls Softball Team won the Maryland Class 1A State Championship in 1999. Allegany High School would again win the State Championship in 2010, 2022 and again in 2024.

Members of the 1999 team were, front row, Kim Twigg, Lauren Stillwagon, Donnie Helman, Erin Rhodes, and Staci Walton. In the back row were Heather Laffey, Abbey Niland, Kendra Bonella, Brooke Payton, Manda Widmyer, Andria Cook, Cassie Murray, and Corinthia Kendall.

Allegany (1997, 1998) is the high school which has won the State Girls Cross Country Championship two times.

From: Maryland Public Secondary School Athletic Association (MPSSAA) website.

The photograph is of the 1998 Allegany High School cross county team.

Front row: Jennifer Linn, Kate Gall, Susan Kelly, Rebecca Mertz
Back row: Kandi Wertz, Tara Kelly, Amber Grove, Christy Dowdell, Nory Sams and Erin Davis

Girls representing the City of Cumberland who have captured the National Marbles Championship, held each year in Wildwood, New Jersey for youths between the ages 8-14, include Patricia Kimmell in 1983, Amy Thompson in 1985, Lori Dickel (from Ridgeley, West Virginia) in 1987, Dawn Lancaster in 1991 and Katelynn Gaumer in 2024.

Amy Thompson, a 1991 Fort Hill High School graduate, later married. As Amy Yarbrough in 2002 and at the age of 29 she won the United States Marbles Championship, Women's Division.