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Boca’s wrestling squad has moving experience

There is no officially designated wrestling room at Boca Raton High, so each day before practice begins, the wrestlers fold up tables and chairs in the school’s cafeteria to make room for six mats. At the end of practice, they reverse the procedure. Boca Raton coach Cory Braslow is not complaining about the inconvenience, however. [...]

West Boca baseball teammates to be rivals in college

WEST BOCA — Tyler Greene and Michael Kelly are baseball teammates at West Boca High, but the future paints a different picture for the pair. Greene signed a national letter-of-intent on Wednesday with the University of Georgia, while Kelly penned his signature to SEC rival Florida. “I guess we will have a little rivalry now,” [...]

Boys soccer: Boca, American Heritage return talent

With a championship ring finally adorning their fingers, the returning Boca Raton boys soccer players could have decided to coast this offseason. But senior forward Colby Burdette wouldn’t allow it. “This is his final year, his swan song, and he’s been training harder than anyone. He hasn’t missed a practice, he’s just busting his tail [...]

Young runners move quickly to the head of the pack in cross country

American Heritage-Plantation coach Kent Baker knew his new runner was special after he Googled her. Daesha Rogers has been setting age-group national records for years, well documented on the Internet. She is 11. The Patriots sixth-grader is the best of a sizeable group of very young runners, mostly girls, in Broward and Palm Beach counties [...]

Gators, other colleges clamp down on high schools using logos

In the city of Belle Glade, there’s a large fan and alumni base for the University of Florida. So when Glades Day School opened in 1965, founders opted to pay the Gators athletic program the ultimate compliment by nicknaming the sports teams the Gators and adopting modified versions of Florida’s athletic logos. But recently, Glades [...]