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Latest reporting from the Sports desk.
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Lakewood Ranch High opened its 2026 football season with a 27-14 road victory over Parrish Community on Aug. 21, capping a game day that started with players, cheerleaders and student trainers suiting up in Mustang gear across campus.
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Lakewood Ranch High opened its 2026 football season with a 27-14 road victory over Parrish Community on Aug. 21, capping a game day that started with players, cheerleaders and student trainers suiting up in Mustang gear across campus.
Lakewood Ranch High opened its 2026 football season with a 27-14 road victory over Parrish Community on Aug. 21, capping a game day that started with players, cheerleaders and student trainers suiting up in Mustang gear across campus.
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Lakewood Ranch High's girls golf team beat Manatee 151-214 in its season opener, with freshman Chloe Friedberg earning medalist honors and three other freshmen finishing in the top five.
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Brooklyn McQuilkin, a former LRHS World Geography teacher who coached cheer at Sarasota High, has been named the new head coach of the Lakewood Ranch High varsity cheer team ahead of the 2026-27 season.
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Sarasota Paradise launched its inaugural youth academy season at Premier Sports Campus on Aug. 17, held its first Signing Day, and opened a search for a new club president as the USL League One organization expands its Lakewood Ranch presence.
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Lakewood Ranch 12-year-old Elianna Grace finished third in her division at the U.S. Kids Golf World Championship at Pinehurst Resort, carding a 9-under 207 against 119 golfers from 19 countries in her final year of eligibility.
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Sarasota County Schools is adding boys and girls soccer at all traditional middle schools for 2026-27, giving Heron Creek Middle and other campuses their first school-based soccer program at the middle school level.
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Manatee County's $44.2 million Premier Sports Campus North complex in Lakewood Ranch will bring 24 pickleball courts to the east side of the county, with construction nearing completion and an opening expected by fall 2026.
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Lakewood Ranch High volleyball opens its 2026 season Aug. 11 at Venice, defending a district title behind returning senior Avarie Tholl and head coach Jessica Leupold, with 18 varsity matches running through October.
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Florida Premier FC SWFL's U13 girls soccer team, based in Lakewood Ranch, reached the national championship at the U.S. Club Soccer National Cup in Denver before falling 3-0 to FC Tampa Rangers on July 24, capping a run of four consecutive shutouts for a squad that mostly plans to attend Lakewood Ranch High School.
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Both the Palmetto and Bradenton city councils have approved the inaugural Manatee River Turkey Trot for Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 26, with 1,500 to 2,000 runners expected to cross the DeSoto Bridge. FDOT approval is still pending.
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The Bradenton Marauders won both ends of a Monday, July 27 doubleheader against the Dunedin Blue Jays on walk-off hits at LECOM Park, splitting a six-game series after snapping a six-game losing skid the day before.
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