The Miami Lakes Optimist Club’s basketball program completed its 40th season this summer with 22 teams and 200 players. The Club used the gym’s of two local high schools, Barbara Goleman and Hialeah Gardens High schools, during the summer months of June and July and have thanked the principals of both schools for their continued support.  At Barbara Goleman, principal Joaquin Hernandez who has been highly supportive...

For the first time in nearly two decades, the old rivalry between the Hialeah Miami Lakes (HML) and Barbara Goleman Senior High (BGSHS) football teams appeared as their football teams played for the Mayor’s Cup in a preseason game. The two teams had not played each other in several years, as they are in different athletic districts. The competition was fierce throughout the night, but in the end, the HML Trojans defeated the Goleman...

  Art Cabrera is living proof that you’re never too old to achieve your goal. The 56-year-old Miami Lakes resident, and a teacher at Barbara Coleman High School, recently won the Atlanta Open Masters Division Tournament in conjunction with Sweet Science Fitness Boxing Club in Georgia. He defeated NBC 6 news anchor and U.S. Air Force Gulf War fighter pilot Willard Shepard in the finals to win the championship. Shepard, a member of...

  American High student-athlete Viviana Reyes has recently generated the interest of Barry University and ASA College among other local colleges, as the softball star has put up impressive numbers in her three seasons in high school. As the former Goleman High player enters her senior season, she was amongst the top second baseman in the district, according to The Miami Herald, and she led the Gators in hitting for three seasons. She...

  Manny Lora first joined the Alabama A&M University (Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University) baseball staff in 2016 as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator. On top of managing the development of the team’s pitchers, he also handled the budget for the whole team.  Before joining the staff, Lora was a relief pitcher from 2009 until 2014, where he earned 11 wins and 131 strikeouts. Before graduating from...