Mater Lakes Academy’s cheerleaders and dance team competed in early March at the Florida Cheer and Dance Association’s “Beach Battle” Competition held at Miami Norland Senior High. The dance team placed in five competitions and won four of them.  The high school team won first place Platinum in Varsity Jazz and Varsity Lyrical and then received second place overall in Varsity Lyrical. The middle school team,...

Miami Lakes’ Sports Hall of Fame committee has issued the first call for Hall of Fame Inductee nominations.The Sports Hall of Fame, an initiative brought forward by Mayor Manny Cid and supported by the Town Council, will be located in the new Miami Lakes Optimist Park Clubhouse at Optimist Park, 6411 N.W. 162 Street, which is nearly completion.The committee is seeking nominations to honor athletes, coaches, community members and teams...

Before the Miami Heat face the Phoenix Suns, two middle school basketball teams will take center court at the American Airlines Arena, where players from the NBA will be watching a classic rivalry.Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School and Immaculate Conception boys’ basketball teams will clash on the Heat’s home court, from 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 21, for their Court of Dreams and Family Night event.The Heat-Suns game is...

Miami Lakes teens, Alyssa Moore and Nicole Calles represented Club Shula at the 2017 Open Badminton tournament recently held at the University of Miami. They brought home novice titles for their abilities. The high school sophomores, Moore a student at Barbara Goleman Senior High, and Calles, a student at Archbishop McCarthy High, entered the tournament in Women’s Doubles and defeated other competing high school students, college...

American High softball star Erika Castroman is not only playing like an All-Dade player this year, but she’s batting a thousand beyond the diamond. Last Christmas, Castroman distributed 50 backpacks filled with items for hygiene, including deodorant, shampoo, soap, toothpaste and hand sanitizers, as well as toothbrushes, combs and face towels to the homeless people who were sleeping in the streets or under the facade of buildings...