One of Montgomery County’s most successful field hockey coaches, Jenna Reis, will relinquish her duties at the end of the season, she said Wednesday. In nine years, Reis has a 133-27-6 career record with seven region titles and two state championships. She guided the defending Maryland 4A champion Cougars to a 2-0 win over Churchill in the region quarterfinals Tuesday.
Reis, who also gave up her position as lacrosse coach at QO earlier this year, is leaving high school coaching to devote more time to her club program, Champions of Tomorrow, which trains local athletes in four sports and recently opened an indoor athletic complex in Rockville. Reis also is expecting her third child late this month.
Friendly forfeits
The undefeated Friendly football program, ranked No. 4 in the Examiner, will forfeit “either three or four games,” according to Earl Hawkins, head of county athletics.
The Patriots were found to have used an ineligible player for their first three games this season, according to Hawkins. The county is sifting through game films to determine if the player participated in a fourth game. Friendly will remain eligible for the postseason, Hawkins said. The player was declared ineligible because he did not meet residency requirements to play for school.
Friendly is the fourth football program in Prince George’s County to forfeit games for player residency issues this fall. Flowers, Crossland, and Eleanor Roosevelt are the others. Hawkins said that players found to have violated residency rules must sit out 60 days before playing athletics in the county.
