Barbara Goleman Senior High School’s girls soccer team won the Class 6A District 15 Championship for the first time in more than a decade with a 6-1 victory over North Miami Senior High on Feb. 5. Sophomore captain Miranda Castellanos; junior Hailey Chavez; junior captain Rebekah Salcedo and freshman Kayla Lewis, shown above, left to right, scored all 6 points for the Gators in the game. They finished the season 6-4. Goleman coach...

Coach Caesar Asadi
is making the jump to the college level, hired by St. Thomas University after leading Mater Lakes Academy boys relay swimming team to a Class 2A state championship in November. The private, Catholic university in Miami Gardens on Jan. 19 named Asadi the new men’s and women’s swimming and diving head coach. The Bobcats will compete in the Sun Coast Conference as a National Association of Intercollegiate...

The Tree pose - Vrksasana (vrksa - tree, sana - pose).   The benefits of the tree pose include helping to improve balance, endurance and stability, and also toning the legs and feet. Balance can be improved at any age! 1. Begin by standing close to a wall. Keep your feet parallel to each other and root them firmly into the earth and lengthen your spine. Tug your tailbone under. Keep your shoulders away from your ears and...

Any golfer will tell you: Making a hole-in-one is a dream that many pursue, and most will never accomplish. Don’t tell them about Flen D. Mobley. The 63-year-old from Miramar got his first ace in 2009. And on Jan. 29 he did it again on The Senator Course at Don Shula’s Golf Course in Miami Lakes. “The feeling is really great,” Mobley said. “It really is an accomplishment.” The National...

     Kaitlynn Fundora and Kade Bodin are the winners of the 35th Annual Optimist Club of Miami Lakes Roland Gomez Scholarship Award.     The college students, both Miami Lakers, received their prizes -- $1,000 check to each to be used toward school expenses, as well as a gold medal --  at the end of 2020, according to Jim Hamilton, chairman of the club’s scholarship award...