Academic Team

Alexandra Langwell RoeSchool: Wilde Lake at River Hill High SchoolHometown: ColumbiaAge: 17Alexandra, a senior at Wilde Lake at River Hill, carries a 3.95 grade point average in honors, gifted and talented and advanced placement courses. An honorable mention Maryland Distinguished Scholar, Alexandra has won a Pennsylvania Book Award Scholarship for leadership and departmental awards in Spanish.Alexandra is senior class president and was junior and sophomore class president. A member of the Executive Board her junior and senior years, she is the president of the National Honor Society this year.

The county government is offering us an opportunity to relive a childhood fantasy of peeking into area fire stations.All next week, area fire stations hold open houses in honor of Fire Prevention Week. This is the one and only time to get answers to such time-honored questions as "Why do firemen wear red suspenders?" and "Where's the fire?"The Savage Volunteer Fire Company holds open house Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. There'll be tours of the fire station and rescue facility, videos, balloons for the kids and -- if the firefighters can get a derelict auto in time -- a mock accident and rescue demonstration.

Hit your buzzers if you can answer this question: How many juniors and seniors does it take to get to the Super Bowl in the Baltimore/Washington/Central Virginia "It's Academic" Tournament? Bzzzzzzzttt. None -- if you're talking about Howard High School. Howard's "It's Academic" team -- all sophomores -- won the Baltimore area's championship game last month, advancing to the televised quiz show's Super Bowl for the first time in at least 10 years. They'll compete against the winners of the Washington and Central Virginia area competitions Saturday.

A year's worth of trivia came down to just a couple of minutes of rapid-fire questions for Oakland Mills High School's "It's Academic" team this weekend.Tied for first place going into the final round of questions in Saturday's mid-Atlantic "It's Academic" Super Bowl, the trio of Columbia students seemed to have hit their stride, easily answering such questions as "Identify the president of Mexico."But in the final frenzied minutes, the Oakland Mills team was a half-second slow to buzz in with their answers, finishing in second place to Georgetown Day School, one of Washington's elite private schools.

Both were perfect 4.0 students for four years and ranked No. 1 in their class while taking rigorous academic schedules. And both were dominant in their chosen sports.She excelled in soccer, basketball and outdoor track, winning 12 varsity letters.As a distance runner following in his high-achieving brother's footsteps, he participated in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track for four years, setting statewide season-best times in all three sports his senior year.Howard's Camille Powell and Glenelg's Edward Hogan are The Baltimore Sun's Athletes of the Year for Howard County for the 1992-93 academic year.

A LOCAL television tradition for more than 40 years will feature South Carroll High School this month at the taping of It's Academic. "We got our team together last spring," said Gary Foote, South Carroll physics teacher and coach. "Ever since, we've been training by going over questions. And, recently, we even bought a buzzer system to help prepare." The weekly high school quiz show began taping its 32nd season in Baltimore and 42nd season in Washington this year. Each show features three-area high school teams, made up of three players each, competing to answer questions related to science, math, history, literature and current events.

All right, sports fans, let me give you a break from all that hoop mania known as March Madness and get you focused on the local sports scene for a few minutes.You can break away from the NCCA tournament to digest a couple of minutes of those "Questions without Answers."Don't forget to give me a call during commercials or any time on the 24-hour Sportsline, 647-2499, with your comments, answers or questions.* Have you student-athletes filed your All-County Academic-Athletic Team ballot? Did you realize today is the last day to do so?

Soccer Wake's Harris, Gamble among new Bohemians Two players from Wake Forest, goalkeeper Andrew Harris (Gilman) and forward Michael Gamble (McDonogh), have joined the Baltimore Bohemians of the United Soccer Leagues' Premier Development League. Other new players include midfielders Julio Arjona (George Mason), Malcolm Harris (McDonogh, Denver), Austin Martz (Georgetown), Sam Tana (St. Paul's, Susquehanna) and Geaton Caltabiano (Mount St. Joseph, UMBC)

The Atlantic Coast Conference today announced that Maryland fullback Tyler Cierski, offensive lineman Bennett Fulper, linebacker Cole Farrand and punter Nathan Renfro were named to the 2012 All-ACC Academic Football team. It's Fulper's third selection, Cierski's second selection and Farrand's and Renfro's first selection. The Terps had the fourth-most selections in the ACC. Duke finished first with 21 players. Clemson was second with six players, and N.C. State was third with five. The teams were selected from a pool of 104 eligible student-athletes across the conference's 12 teams, and athletes needed to have earned a 3.0 grade point average in the previous semester and have a cumulative 3.0 average to be considered.

Many students and parents have started calling about the 18th All-Anne Arundel County Academic Athletic Team. To answer your questions, The Sun will soon start publishing the application ballot for the team that will honor 10 boys and 10 girls considered to be the county's top student/athletes at a banquet in June. Two overall winners, one boy and one girl, will each receive a $5,000 scholarship from The Sun. All high school students who reside in Anne Arundel County and play at least one varsity sport, underclassmen included, are eligible.