Mhyria Miller, a Coral Shores High graduate, didn't make the Olympic team but she did do well at the U.S. Open Swim meet, one of college's most challenging.
Florida Keys swimmer Mhyria Miller turned in the strongest all-around meet of her college career at last week's prestigious U.S. Open Swim Meet in Minnesota. Miller scored a second place in the 400-meter medley relay with her Athens Bulldog Swim Club teammates.
Posted - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 06:01 AM EDT
Taylor Konrath finishes a standing broad jump during the Chicago competition. She placed third nationally.
Team Konrath invaded Chicago for the Junior Olympics skills competition sponsored by the National Olympic Committee. And when it was done, Marathon's Taylor Konrath placed third in track and field -- a good showing considering the 13-year-old was one of just 72 athletes chosen to participate from a nationwide pool of 1.8 million athletes.
Posted - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 06:01 AM EDT
Coral Shores High School sports teams will play at their outdoor stadium newly named for conservationist George Barley Jr.
Posted - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 06:01 AM EDT
The Joint Interagency Task Force South Color Guard runs as one unit in the Coast Guard 5K through Key West.
Jason Patchett-Gillis is on a roll. Or, should we say, on a run. The Key Wester won Saturday's Coast Guard Days 5K Run/Walk through Key West with a time of 17 minutes, 38 seconds. That followed his overall win in last month's Hemingway 5K.
Posted - Monday, August 04, 2008 05:25 PM EDT
A recent move to the Keys is boding well for the swimming stroke of U.S. Junior Olympian Kaylin Cullinane.
Posted - Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:48 AM EDT
Monday night at 11:55, the Key West High School girls soccer team is scheduled to fly from Fort Lauderdale to western Puerto Rico for a week that will be filled with training, sightseeing and games.
Posted - Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:44 AM EDT
Glenwood Lopez, a 1963 graduate of Frederick Douglass High School, visits youngsters at the Douglass Gym, where he managed the basketball team decades ago.
The green-and-white Frederick Douglass Community Center - or the Douglass Gym as it's always been known - sits as it has for a half century at the corner of Emma and Olivia streets in Bahama Village, and when Glenwood Lopez enters its dim coolness, the memories wash over him.
Posted - Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:37 AM EDT
Kendall's DQ little consolation
Posted - Wednesday, July 30, 2008 07:01 AM EDT
Coral Shores High School football players have fewer than two weeks to enjoy the rest of the summer. Preseason practice begins Aug. 11. Students begin classes a week later on Aug. 18.
Posted - Wednesday, July 30, 2008 07:01 AM EDT
As the Key West Men's Softball League's C Division title game between the Rusty Anchor and the Hog's Breath Saloon neared Friday evening at Wickers Field, the Rusty Anchor's big first baseman, Ramon Gomez, was anticipating a tight contest.
Posted - Wednesday, July 30, 2008 07:01 AM EDT
