Manatee High Becomes First Public School in County to Add Boys and Girls Lacrosse
Written by Lee Roggenburg on . Posted in Featured Posts, Florida Lacrosse News, High School, Tampa/Treasure Coast Boys, Tampa/Treasure Coast Girls.
via Media Submission! From the Bradenton Herald.
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Author’s Note: Thanks for the submission! We encourage ALL readers out there to submit this type of story to us and so we can share it with the entire Florida readership. Please also note we are working with a new site called TampaLaxReport.com. as part of our Tampa/Gulf Coast Regional coverage, so submitters might want to also drop them a note too! The coverage does contain a minor mistake in that Riverview is the first public school in Manatee County to play but we’ll overlook that in the spirit of encouraging more coverage of our favorite sport! (A follow up email to us from Kyle Donovan pointed out that Riverview is not in Manatee County, so we’ll do the proper political thing and say ‘I have no recollection of that Senator’ . . . if you’ve seen the Clancy movie Clear And Present Danger you’ll get that reference . . . )Excerpt:
Manatee High is the first public school in Manatee County to add boys and girls lacrosse as a Florida High School Athletic Association spring sport for the 2018 season.
Matt Faul, Manatee’s lacrosse booster club president, said the Hurricanes received approval from the Manatee School Board on Friday morning.
Faul said the official announcement to Manatee High fans would be made at halftime of Friday’s homecoming football game against Palm Harbor University at Hawkins Stadium.
“It’s perfect timing,” Faul said. “The buzz even gets bigger.”
Faul said he’s hopeful Lakewood Ranch also gets approved for having a team this year.
The first season won’t include any playoff potential. The FHSAA requires teams to join as an independent in their first year for all sports before becoming playoff eligible in future seasons.
