FHSAA moves hot topic to Sunday
The Florida High School Athletic Association has changed the day it publicly discusses a major proposal to revise classifications and state playoffs next week.
That conversation will now take place in a Sunday 11 a.m. board-of-directors workshop at the FHSAA’s Gainesville headquarters rather than during Monday’s board meeting. FHSAA administrator
said the workshop will be open to the public.
“When looking at the agenda, we knew it would come up as discussion in the various committee meetings on Sunday,” Harrison wrote in an email response to the
“Therefore, we wanted everyone on the board and those present to hear the same comments/ questions/concerns.
“We had two options — to put it either first on Sunday or at the end of the meeting on Monday. We felt it would serve best to have it first thing.” Lake Nona junior
set a school record with a 6-under-par 31 score for nine holes at Eagle Creek on Monday. The Lions were 11-under as a team.
Teams ranked No. 1 in Florida Athletic Coaches Association cross country rankings include Mount Dora Christian for Class 1A boys and Circle Christian for 1A girls. Montverde Academy is No. 3 in tough 2A girls competition behind Plantation American Heritage and Jacksonville Bolles. Winter Park is No. 3 in girls 4A, followed by Lake Brantley and Winter Springs.
Area-leading times to date are a 15-minute, 49-second effort for 5,000 meters by Mount Dora Christian senior
and girls performances of 18:29.44 by Montverde ninth-grader
and 18:32.62 by Circle sophomore
junior
is right back on track after an injury-riddled sophomore season. She has three cross country wins in three races this fall and cruised to a season-best 18:41.20 time to win last weekend’s St. Cloud Invitational.
Lake
Brantley
A high school football matchup fans in South Florida have clamored for finally kicks off tonight when 7A No. 1 St. Thomas Aquinas (3-0) hosts 6A No. 2 Miami Central (3-1).
Aquinas has won 10 state championships since 1992 — five in the past eight years. The Raiders have outscored opponents 149-6, and that doesn’t count a 38-0 national TV preseason thrashing of Maryland power DeMatha Catholic, which was 12-0 last year. Central won five 6A championships in six years (2010-15). The Rockets were ranked top-10 nationally by some this year before losing a five-overtime game at St. John’s (3-0) of Washington, D.C., 37-34, two weeks ago.