Three decades later, and appropriately at a homecoming game, a standout football season recorded by the Potomac School Panthers was celebrated.
During halftime of Potomac School’s home Oct. 19 high-school contest against the Maret Frogs, eight members (players and coaches) for the groundbreaking 1993 campaign gathered at midfield and listened to game announcer Glenn Adamac read the many first accomplishments amassed by that McLean private-school squad.
That fall, the Panthers were the first team in program history to win seven games, win a conference championship, start a season 6-0, and have conference Players of the Year on offense and defense and, in Rob Lee, the Coach of the Year.
In addition, the Panthers were the first team in school history to go undefeated in conference play (5-0), the initial squad to have four shutouts in one season, and the first to defeat rivals Flint Hill, St. James and St. Anne’s-Belfield in a single season.
That campaign began with a 50-0 victory over York, with further shutouts in the Panthers’ next two contests. There was a fourth shutout in game eight.
Potomac School finished with a 7-2 record that fall, after going 2-7 the season before. There were no playoffs at that point for the Panthers to earn a qualifying berth in 1993.
Six players and two former assistant coaches (brothers Bill and Jamie Crittenberger) attended the halftime ceremony.
Lee, who now works at the Landon School in Maryland, was unable to attend. Lee served several stints as the Panthers’ football coach, and also was the school’s longtime athletic director.
