The Sterling Golf, Swim & Tennis Club officially kicked off the 2009 golf season with the Annual Frostbite Tournament. There may not have been frost but plenty of wind and not bad play determined the outcome for most of the players. The Frostbite winners were; Championship Flight Ken Albanese,1st Flight Jeff Verhulst, 2nd Flight Morris Jarrett and 3rd Flight Alice Smith. Pictured here are Steve WenPetren, PGA and Club Manager, left, and Morris Jarrett.

Photo: George Hidy

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Julia Braxton, 14, is this year's winner of the Virginia Icon Competition.

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Brittany Loveless, 16, shows off her Future Farmers of America jacket. The club held a tractor driving competition.

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Members of the Future Farmers of America club at Leesburg's Monroe Technical High School hold a tractor driving competition. Instructor Dennis Sizemore, gives course directions to Brittany Loveless, 18.

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Tara Tacci, 18, gives advice to Brittany Loveless, 16, before her test drive during a tractor driving competition put on by the Future Farmers of America club at Leesburg's Monroe Technical High School.

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Members of the Future Farmers of America club at Leesburg's Monroe Technical High School hold a tractor driving competition. Krista Caserta, 18, gets to try her hand at backing up the tractor.

Photo: Dayna Smith, Washington Post

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Brittany Loveless realizes she has struck one of the cones used to mark the course of the tractor driving competition put on by the Future Farmers of America club at Leesburg's Monroe Technical High School.

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Tara Tacci, 18, a members of the Future Farmers of America club at Leesburg's Monroe Technical High School, negotiates a course during a tractor driving competition.

Photo: Dayna Smith, Washington Post

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