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Byline: BOB PUTNAM; Times Staff Writer Boys runner of the year - Jacob Hudak, Seminole, Sr. The Warhawks had a void to fill after the graduation of Chase Sutton, the [...]

Byline: JOEY KNIGHT; Times Staff Writer Girls runner of the year - Claire Snyder, So., Tampa Prep Few breakthrough seasons have been this stunning. Snyder, who essentially didn't train over [...]

Byline: BOB PUTNAM; Times Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG -- Dan Wright no longer strolls the sideline in the gymnasium. But he is not entirely absent from Lakewood High School's boys [...]

Byline: JOHN C. COTEY It was one of the county's most impressive single-season records, held by one of the county's most revered players. And today, after the most brilliant of [...]

Byline: JOEY KNIGHT; TIMES STAFF WRITER SEFFNER -- In a sense, he is Tebow Lite. In one mesmerizing autumn, junior Alvin Bailey has dashed, darted and dazzled his way into [...]

Selected by county coaches: First team QB: Jacob Guy, Pas., Sr. RB: David Emmanuel,Pas., Jr. RB: Kyrie Rodriguez, Fiv., Sr. WR: Trey Dudley-Giles, Pas., Sr. WR: Janarion Grant, Pas., Jr. [...]

Byline: JEFFREY S. SOLOCHEK; TIMES STAFF WRITER ZEPHYRHILLS -- Brandon Carvalho, a popular Zephyrhills High School senior and basketball player, died in a car crash outside Lakeland Monday evening. He [...]

Byline: JOHN C. COTEY DADE CITY -- Pasco High School's Tom McHugh isn't like most football coaches. He's hardly like any, actually. He didn't play in college, then come back [...]

Byline: ROD GIPSON; Times Correspondent TAMPA -- Mike Tate is a coach's dream. The 6-foot, 190-pound inside linebacker for Plant High who loves to hit and specializes in blowing up [...]

Former Jefferson head coach Mike Fenton, who led the Dragons to an undefeated season last year capped with a 3A state championship, will join the Tampa Catholic coaching staff as [...]

Byline: BOB PUTNAM; Times Staff Writer Billy Pavlock and Pete DiNovo are perfect foils in a twisting, turning football rivalry that culminates Friday when Pavlock's Palm Harbor University Hurricanes meet [...]

Byline: RODNEY PAGE; Times Staff Writer SEMINOLE -- Phil Farver came to Indian Rocks Christian 20 years ago to start the girls basketball program. He had all kinds of teams [...]

Byline: DEREK J. LARIVIERE; Times Correspondent BROOKSVILLE -- It would be easy to talk about the star of Nature Coast. But that isn't what is going to get the Sharks [...]

Byline: DANNY VALENTINE; TIMES STAFF WRITER ST. PETERSBURG -- Jon Kersten called out his orders from the hospital bed. It was October 2010, and the Florida Marching Band Championships that [...]

Byline: JOEY KNIGHT; Times Staff Writer Armwood football coach Sean Callahan said Friday evening he feels comfortable his program is above-board in the wake of a local TV report indicating [...]

Barring an improbable playoff run that would have to include a victory over Armwood, Largo will be without star running back Jarvis Stewart the remainder of the season, including next [...]

Byline: ROD GIPSON; Times Correspondent LUTZ -- The ultimate decision will come soon enough, but on Wednesday, Gerald Bautista celebrated the present. The Steinbrenner High School infielder signed his national [...]

Wiregrass Ranch and Zephyrhills will remember former coach and teacher Chris Bounnell before Thursday's football game. Bounnell died after the second day of school. He was 54. Bounnell was a [...]

Anclote junior quarterback John Forgione is out for the season with a separated shoulder, Sharks coach Matt Wicks said Wednesday morning. Forgione sustained the injury in last week's 13-0 victory [...]

Tarpon Springs receiver Dondre Daley got an offer from Iowa State on Wednesday, his first from a Division I-A school. Daley previously received offers from I-AA schools Gardner Webb (N.C.) [...]

Byline: DEREK J. LARIVIERE; TIMES CORRESPONDENT Hernando High School will induct the second class of athletes into its Sports Hall of Fame in early November. The oldest high school in [...]

Byline: DEMORRIS A. LEE; Times Staff Writer CLEARWATER -- Jordan Rossi knows about loss. When he was 4 years old, his mother died of breast cancer at the age of [...]

Byline: MATT BAKER; Times Staff Writer Zephyrhills coach Reggie Roberts will not be suspended after he and an assistant coach were given trespassing warnings for becoming 'belligerent' with opposing coaches [...]

Byline: JOHN C. COTEY You can read it, put your coffee on it to keep it warm, clip it out and use it to fry eggs on, but just don't [...]

Byline: LAURA KEELEY; Times Staff Writer TAMPA -- What's a diver to do if his high school doesn't have a pool? If you're Giorgi Meyer, you and your dad drive [...]

Byline: BRYAN BURNS; Times Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG -- Tuesday's match between Clearwater and Lakewood gave local University of Florida fans a chance to check out two of the Gators' [...]

What seemed like a cruel case of deja vu turned into a minor scare for Springstead's volleyball team. Middle hitter Zoe Mannino went down with a knee injury last week, [...]

Byline: BOB PUTNAM; Times Staff Writer Lakewood defensive lineman Dante Fowler may play in the Mayor's Cup Classic against Gibbs on Thursday. Fowler, who has been suspended the past three [...]

Byline: JOEY KNIGHT; TIMES STAFF WRITER One of Hillsborough County's most moribund boys basketball programs has received a huge dose of credibility with three small syllables. Fred Lewis. A former [...]

Byline: JOHN C. COTEY; TIMES STAFF WRITER ST. PETERSBURG -- Tracy Johnson can't miss these days. Especially when he throws in the direction of teammate Rodney Adams. The Lakewood quarterback-wide [...]

Byline: BOB PUTNAM; TIMES STAFF WRITER Lakewood assistant football coach Rod Williams stepped down Monday to concentrate on his speed and agility camp. Williams' association with the team came under [...]

Byline: EDUARDO A. ENCINA; LAURA KEELEY; JOEY KNIGHT; TIMES STAFF WRITERS Bruce Gifford, Riverview's head football coach since 2008, has resigned for health reasons, athletic director Kevin Massena said Monday [...]

Byline: GREG AUMAN; Times Staff Writer TAMPA -- As critical as coach Skip Holtz was initially about USF's defensive and special teams mistakes in Saturday's 52-24 win over UTEP, he [...]

Byline: JOEY KNIGHT; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- The top tackler - and arguably top college prospect - at Sickles is a 5-foot-10 package of speed, strength and syllables. Lots [...]

The injury report keeps getting worse for Admiral Farragut. Cortavious Givens, the Blue Jackets' top running back, is out for the season after tearing the anterior cruciate and medial collateral [...]

Byline: JOEY KNIGHT; EDUARDO A. ENCINA; TIMES STAFF WRITERS Football His first formal practice of the 2011 season didn't arrive without complications. 'My helmet feels funny now,' Armwood senior RB [...]

Pasco football coach Tom McHugh has been named the Pirates' athletic director, assistant principal Norm Brown confirmed Thursday. 'We went with Tom due to his experience and community ties,' Brown [...]

Byline: JOEY KNIGHT; TIMES STAFF WRITER TAMPA -- A little secret on the most celebrated gallop of Greg Windham's football life, the one both mesmerizing and metaphorical, the one that [...]

Byline: EDUARDO A. ENCINA; Times Staff Writer TAMPA -- The coach chasing his 800th win Tuesday night walked in the opposite way of his huddle. One of the biggest lessons [...]

Byline: BRYAN BURNS; TIMES STAFF WRITER Perhaps no player on the North Suncoast was more valuable to his team last season than Sunlake's Jacob Jackson. The Seahawks' version of Tim [...]

Byline: BOB PUTNAM; Times Staff Writer Northside Christian's Jeremy Smith and Alonso's Elizabeth Shields are two of six recipients of this year's Florida Dairy Farmers Scholar Athlete award. Smith was [...]

Byline: EDUARDO A. ENCINA; JOEY KNIGHT; Times Staff Writers Alonso's Elizabeth Shields and Northside Christian's Jeremy Smith are two of six recipients of this year's Florida Dairy Farmers Scholar Athlete [...]