Competing against the best swimmers and divers in the Class 1A state meet was a learning experience for Lake Placid's Edwin Velazquez and Dylan Weber-Callahan on Saturday at the Central Florida YMCA Aquatic Center in Orlando. ...more

November 16, 2009

Despite competing against some of the top swimmers and divers in the state, Lake Placid's Dylan Weber-Callahan and Edwin Velazquez managed to qualify for the Class 1A state finals next week in Orlando. ...more

November 9, 2009

Bloomingdale High School's Nick Wing-Holt is just as comfortable on a stage with a violin in hand as he is on a diving board. ...more

November 4, 2009

Because of a scoring error, the official results of the Sunshine Athletic Conference diving Friday at the New Port Richey Recreation and Aquatic Center won't be official until today. But the individual winners aren't expected to change. ...more

October 24, 2009

A single dive does not make a season, and Avon Park's John Chittum has proved that he belongs with the top divers around, even if the end results didn't turn out the way he envisioned. ...more

January 4, 2009

Mary Epperson's feet were back on the ground but her head was still up in the clouds as she stood before her students Monday at Hudson Middle School. Less than 24 hours earlier she had experienced something that until just a few years ago had only been known to astronauts and few others, the feeling of floating virtually weightless in the air, and she did it without having to go into orbit. ...more

December 17, 2008

Fighting Words Re: "Highly Paid Teachers Need To Improve, Too," by Don Plezia in the Nov. 27 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

December 2, 2008

Shane Wirries knew something wasn't right after he watched John Chittum's first dive at the Class 1A-Region 2 finals at Trinity Prep in Winter Park on Saturday. ...more

November 10, 2008

The Avon Park, Lake Placid and Sebring swimmers and divers are looking to make a big splash in today's regional meets. ...more

November 8, 2008

Brandon's Chris Colwill decided to leave it all in the pool of the Olympic men's 3-meter diving finals Tuesday night in Beijing. He did that by performing a list of six dives that, when combined, was the highest degree of difficulty in the competition. ...more

August 20, 2008