Mackenzie is participating in Outdoor Track again this year at Quince Orchard. She is tossing the shot, throwing the discus and generally entering any other events her coach asks her to for the good of the team. Her best performance so far this year makes her the #4 Sophomore this year in Montgomery County in the discus.

Sophomore Girls Discus
Athlete	Year	School	Meet	Date	Event	Result
Juju Obioha	2010	Holton Arms	5 Team @ Holton Arms	2008-04-10	Discus	080-04.50
Milan White	2010	Springbrook	SB, CB @ Prep	2008-04-09	Discus	077-10
Julie Nkodo	2010	Our Lady of Good Counsel	Viking Invitational	2008-04-19	Discus	077-05.50
MacKenzie Stevenson	2010	Quince Orchard	Poolesville, Dam @ QO	2008-04-15	Discus	074-08
Tayler King	2010	Damascus	Poolesville, Dam @ QO	2008-04-15	Discus	072-01.50
Chelsea Jackson	2010	Springbrook	SB, CB @ Prep	2008-04-09	Discus	069-10
Michelle Astrove	2010	Winston Churchill	B-CC, JFK @ Churchill	2008-04-08	Discus	055-06
Xena Dreyfuss	2010	Albert Einstein	CB, AE, RM @ Mag	2008-04-01	Discus	046-09
Linda Valasquez	2010	Sherwood	Cougar Relays	2008-04-05	Discus	045-04

One does not lose wars with this kind of firepower, one only loses wars when the will to properly use it is missing.

I would hate to be on the receiving end of this:

Mackenzie finished 14th out of 28 throwers at the Montgomery County indoor track championships at Georgetown Prep in Rockville this past Tuesday. She was the #2 sophomore and continues to improve, adding distance to her throw each week.

Mackenzie Stevenson's MoCoRunning profile is here.

You can check out her meet results history at that page.

Girls Shot Put
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      County: # 38-08.50  1/19/1998   Ruth Kura, Quince Orchard                
    Name                    Year School                  Finals  Points
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  1 Rose, Arleigh             SR Sherwood              35-11.25    10  
  2 Talley, Cori              SR Blake                 31-11.25     8  
  3 mzengi, rachel            JR Kennedy               31-05.75     6  
  4 Fulton, Brianna           SR RM                    30-02.25     5  
  5 King, Octavia             JR Blake                 30-00.25     4  
  6 Defnet, Holly             SR Poolesville           29-06.25     3  
  7 Perry, Frances            SR Damascus              28-05.50     2  
  8 Baker, Kim                SR RM                    28-02.25     1  
  9 Hawk, Jenna               JR Churchill             27-07.50  
 10 Nesselt, Ashleigh         SR Poolesville           26-07.00  
 11 Arieta, Maritsa           SR Kennedy               26-05.00  
 12 Nisson, Kerry             SR Wootton               25-04.25  
 13 Alike, Queen              SO Northwest             22-05.25  
 14 Stevenson, MacKenzie      SO Quince Orchard        22-03.25  
 15 Moore, Kristin            JR Seneca Valley         21-10.00  
 16 Lien, Christine           JR Blake                 21-09.75  
 17 Wong, Siani               JR Springbrook           20-05.50  
 18 McCully, Kaitlin          JR Einstien              19-09.50  
 19 Evans, Jesica             FR Walter Johnson        19-07.75  
 20 Brady, Miranda            SO Magruder              19-04.50  
 21 Kaplowitz, Molly          FR Whitman               13-05.25  
 -- Faulk, Meghan             SR Rockville                   ND  
 -- Chen, Yolanda             SO Seneca Valley               ND  
 -- Thammavong, Narin         JR Einstien                    ND  
 -- Izquierdo, Pamela         FR Seneca Valley               ND  
 -- Khanu, Carol              FR Gaithersburg                ND  
 -- Rhodes, Tei               JR Clarksburg                  ND  
 -- Zifac, Evy                SO Springbrook                 ND  
 -- Hagins, Jasmin            SO Damascus                    ND  

The girls and I went to Chip and Tina Stevenson's house In Georgetown, DE for the holidays and decided to take a trip over the the Jersey side. The plan was to catch the 9:45 ferry to Cape May from Lewes. The only problem was that, upon arriving at the terminal around 9:20, the ferry was already sailing at its departure time of 9:15......oooops.

We decided to kill some time and go to Cape Henlopen State Park nearby. We spent some time in one of the World War II observation towers in Ft. Miles and more time exploring the fort itself, including Battery 519 under the Great Dune. See the Flickr photoset for pictures.

Finally we got on the ferry and sailed for Cape May.

Once we got over to the other side of the Delaware Bay we headed toward Hammonton, NJ to begin exploring the Pine Barrens of New Jersey- 1 millions acres of sand, pine trees, cranberry bogs and ponds with no way to travel the interior but Forestry Service fire roads. Although we were having too much fun to remember to take pictures, a general idea of what the "Pines" looks like is here:

Road on Botona Trail.

The truck ended up looking like this by the time we got done:

The girls slept the whole return trip as we decided to drive up and around to get back to Georgetown.

The entire photoset is here.

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After a successful Cross Country season that saw the Quince Orchard boys team win their second straight Maryland 4A (big schools) State Championship, Mackenzie Stevenson was awarded the JV Girls Most Valuable Runner award.

Mackenzie's coaches and teammates felt that her contributions as a runner, teammate, and mentor made her the MVP of the JV girls Cross Country team.


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The girls and I recently celebrated Mackenzie's 15th birthday in a local restaurant - Buca di Beppo. We gorged ourselves on Italian food, enjoyed the atmosphere, got the whole room to sing "Happy Birthday" to Mackenzie and had our picture taken by the waitress.



She's fifteen years old.....boys no longer have cooties.

The entire photoset is here.

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Mackenzie submitted an essay for the 2007 National Character Counts Foundation For Life contest and won first place for her school.

Here is Mackenzie doing a photo-op with the Mayor of Gaithersburg in the background.



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Beth and I joined the Maryland Sportbikers Meetup Group for a ride to High Rock Overlook. While there we got to see a guy jump off the cliff.....and hang glide away.

And you think riding a motorcycle is crazy.



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Beth, Mackenzie and I went to watch the Orioles get beat by the Yankees.




Mackenzie was not allowing pictures from the paparazzi that night.


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Last week I took a motorcycle trip to Western North Carolina, via the Blue Ridge Parkway, riding 1700 miles over six days with a great group of guys.




The entire photoset is here.



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