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Player of the Week: West Springfield’s Teresa Hines

[caption id="attachment_24815515" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] This week's WTOP Player of the Week is Teresa Hines of West Springfield High School in Virginia. (Couresty Teresa Hines)[/caption]

Each week, WTOP is picking one student athlete to be featured on air and online as our Player of the Week. This week’s WTOP Player of the Week is Teresa Hines of West Springfield High School in Virginia.

Tess is a precision rifle athlete at West Springfield High School and on a travel rifle team called the Arlington Optimist Acorns. A senior now, she started shooting in her freshman year using both a precision air rifle as well as a smallbore rifle.

She is nationally ranked and has participated three times in Junior Olympic competitions, while also shooting regularly at national level competition.

This past January, she won the Virginia State Championship in smallbore (women) and air rifle (men and women).

Tess won the individual regional championship in the Potomac High School League, breaking the range record in the process.

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Are you the parent of an outstanding student athlete? Or do you know a student athlete who deserves recognition? Check back with WTOP at the start of next school year, when nominations will open for the fall sports season. Nominate here.

Player of the Week: Freedom-Woodbridge’s Jeff Overton Jr.

On a team loaded with standout players and offensive firepower, Jeffrey Overton Jr. still stands out. He stood apart during the regular season, throughout the playoffs and one more time in the Virginia 6A championship game. Overton, a junior running back and defensive back already being heavily recruited by several top college football teams, rushed 31 times for 264 yards and two touchdowns and also threw a touchdown pass to lead Freedom-Woodbridge High to a 42-34 win over Highland Springs, capping the Eagles’ second consecutive undefeated season.
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