The Miami Lakes Optimist Club is holding its summer basketball registration for boys and girls on consecutive Saturdays, April 19 and 26, from 9:30 to noon at Miami Lakes Middle School. Registration cost is $145 for each player from ages 11-18. The season starts Monday, June 9. Games will be played at Barbara Goleman High School and Hialeah Gardens Senior High School. Parents must bring their kids to the registration along with their...
  Olympic Gold medalist Lauryn Williams made history as the first female American to medal in the Summer and Winter Olympics, and the Miami-Dade County Commission recognized her for the rare feat. Commissioner Barbara Jordan and her fellow commissioners proclaimed April 8, 2014 as Lauryn Williams Day for winning a Gold Medal in track and field for the 4x100 relay during the 2012 Summer Olympics and a Silver Medal in the two-man Bobsled...
  Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department and District 13 Commissioner Esteban Bovo Jr. dedicated two new lighted soccer fields during a groundbreaking on Saturday, April 12, at the state-of-the-art “Soccer 5” Soccer Complex at Amelia Earhart park, 401 E. 65 Street, in Hialeah. The facility will include a Soccer Field Center and other soccer amenities. “The new soccer fields at Amelia Earhart...
  A group of local high school student-athletes made the Miami Herald’s All-Dade teams in soccer, basketball, wrestling and cheerleading. For boy’s soccer, the 5A-4A First Team includes American High junior midfielder Diego Arcon, who recorded 11 goals and 11 assists this past season. Making the second team was Mater Academy senior goalkeeper Daniel Espantoso, and the third team includes American junior Jacobo Velez....
  The Miami Lakes Optimist Club recently concluded its Spring 2014 Flag Football season under league commissioner Javier Zapata. Over 100 children participated in the league this season, receiving trophies at the league's closing ceremony event on Saturday, April 12 at Royal Oaks Park.  The season was made possible, in part, by the following league sponsors: Express Employment Professionals; Future Force Personnel; Guy Brickman...
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