JACKSONVILLE-An unbelievable balanced sports programs has helped Ponte Vedra claim the Top Girls Athletic Program for the 2016-2017 school year. Ponte Vedra won the title with 680 points by having state runner-up finishes in volleyball, third place in golf and Final Four appearances in basketball, lacrosse, cross country, tennis and softball. Bolles finished second with 600 points despite state titles in swimming and track, state runner-up finishes in cross country and soccer and a...Read More
JACKSONVILLE-With five Final Four appearances, Bolles easily ran away with the Boys Athletic Program of the Year with 595 points well ahead of runner-up Bartram Trail, who finished with 430 points. State titles in swimming and baseball along with runner-up finishes in cross-country and football help propel the Bulldogs to the title as well as top five finishes in tennis and...Read More
MELBOURNE-After winning their fifth straight state soccer title, I sat down with St. Johns Country Day girls soccer coach Mike Pickett about his dynasty and building his program one brick at a time. Today, the Spartans (25-0) moved into second place all-time for consecutive state championships after winning their sixth straight title with a 2-0 win over Lakeland Christian in Deland....Read More
VERO BEACH-The road to redemption didn’t start in February, it started the day after losing their regional final game at Strawberry Crest last April. On that night, Strawberry Crest may have knocked off Oakleaf 6-4 to advance to the Final Four, but what it really did was light the spark for the Knights magical run this year....Read More
ORLANDO-It’s not surprising when an area team wins a state title in golf, in fact its quite common, yet it’s almost unheard of when a local individual wins a state title. The fall of 2016 brought us not only one individual state golf title but two in a week at the Mission Inn and Resort Club in Howey-in-the-Hills outside of Orlando....Read More
We look back at some of the top high school sports moments of the 2016-2017 school year from around the First Coast area. Whether its football, volleyball, swimming or cross country, we look back at another amazing year in high school sports. We began with the fall and continued in Part II with the winter and now we...Read More
We look back at some of the top high school sports moments of the 2016-2017 school year from around the First Coast area. Whether its football, volleyball, swimming or cross country, we look back at another amazing year in high school sports. We begin with the fall and continue in Part II with the winter and Part III...Read More
We look back at some of the top high school sports moments of the 2016-2017 school year from around the First Coast area. Whether its football, volleyball, swimming or cross country, we look back at another amazing year in high school sports. We begin with the fall and continue in Part II with the winter and Part III...Read More
JACKSONVILLE-“I’ve been waiting for this moment, all my life” was a great lyric Phil Collins sang about in the 1980’s. Perhaps the song was in the mind of longtime Fletcher athletic director Joe Reynolds, who had been waiting for this moment for a long time, 17 plus years in fact. In one of the closest competitions in the...Read More
ARLINGTON-Like they have all season long, Parker used a suffocating defense and an opportunistic offense to defend its Gateway Conference flag title with a 27-0 win over visiting Baldwin last night at Joe Hodge Stadium. Parker wasted no time establishing an early lead as quarterback Jazmyn Simmons connected with wide receiver Rashonda ‘Ace’ Hall on a 2-yard pass giving...Read More
