St. Thomas University junior guard Michael Walker has been named a 2015-16 NAIA Division II Honorable Mention All-American.   The 6-4 guard from Rancho Cucamonga, who led the Bobcats in scoring with a 16.1 points-per-game average, was also a First-Team All-Sun Conference selection and a Sun Conference All-Defensive team selection. In addition to leading STU in scoring, Walker also led the team in assists (106), steals (63),...

  Barbara Goleman High School awarded senior football player Antonio Rodriguez the fifth annual Ricky Quintanilla Scholarship award for 2016. The award honors the memory of late Goleman football coach who died of cancer in 2011. As an offensive lineman, Rodriguez was a big part of the Gator’s running game, as the team averaged the most rushing yards in South Florida, according to head coach Ariel Cribeiro. Rodriguez, who’s...

  In its inaugural “Spartans in the NFL” ceremony on March 16, Monsignor Edward Pace High School honored six of their distinguished alumni who have played or are currently playing on an active NFL roster. It was a homecoming for these Pace alumni, including Super Bowl 50 champion and Denver Broncos cornerback Kayvon Webster, a Pace Class of 2009 alumnus. Indianapolis Colts quarterback Stephen Morris (Class of 2010), DeMarcus...

  Nineteen students at Mater Academy Charter School competed at the Family Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) State Leadership Conference in Orlando last weekend and brought home nine gold winners, seven silver and three bronze winners. Eleven students qualified to represent Mater Academy FCCLA in the national competition at San Diego, California. They are Billy Johnston, Pamela Mulkay, Jennifer Camejo, Kimberly Valentin,...

  U.S. History teacher John Brady was recently named Bob Graham Education Center’s 2015-2016 Teacher of the Year.  In his eleventh year as a teacher at the school, Brady’s philosophy for teaching his 8th graders is for his students to know more about the subject than he did leaving middle school and high school. He feels the United States has fallen back in understanding how the American system works and how the country...