Last year, American High baseball players walked off the field dejected after losing a heartbreaking state semifinal game. This year, they walked off the same field but with a different outcome – State Champions! The Patriots’ juggernaut avenged last season’s state tournament loss by beating Tarpon Springs East Lake, 5-2, to claim the Class 7A Florida Championship, the school’s first-ever state title in...

  On May 19, coach German Garcia, Athletic Director at Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School, received the All Catholic Conference (ACC) Outstanding Leadership Award for Athletic Director. To qualify for this award, an athletic director must first be nominated by other coaches, athletic directors, and peers from one or more of the 27 Catholic schools in Miami-Dade County. The Conference then selects the award recipient from a group of...

  Sunrise Christian Academy, 18400 N.W. 68 Avenue, is registering children who turn 4 years of age by September 1 for Free VPK (Voluntary Prekindergarten) education program. The classes are three hours a day with morning and afternoon sessions being offered. Before and aftercare is also available. Visit www.elcmdm.org to learn more about the program and register online at www.vpkhelp.org, or call Sunrise Christian Academy, 305-821-5841,...

     The Benaiges family has made their mark at Barbara Goleman Senior High School.  Bryan Benaiges, the youngest of three brothers, all of whom attended Goleman, will be graduating as the top student of his class of 2014. With a weighted GPA of 6.167 Beniages earned from multiple dual enrollment and advanced placement courses, it's not hard to see why the senior was accepted into Georgia Institute of Technology....

        Miami Lakes Educational Center nominated twelve students for The Miami Herald’s Silver Knight awards in late May. MLEC’s nominees included: Enswert Binns was the nominee for Art. The senior, who was involved with the Cambridge program at MLEC spent his time teaching art interpretation to children in the Jose DiMaggio Children's Hospital. Latisha Miller, the nominee for Business, organized grant...