Best on the beach: Fletcher state champions ranked first in nation
Fletcher vaults to No. 1 in the nation, two Jacksonville giants kick off spring high school football, and more in First Coast Varsity Weekly.
They're champions of the Sunshine State, and now beyond. Undefeated at 20-0, champion of Florida High School Athletic Association Class 3A after sweeping St. Thomas Aquinas in the final in Tallahassee, Fletcher beach volleyball under head coach Brooke Wooten is ending its greatest-ever season at No.
1 in the national MaxPreps rankings. The Senators leapfrogged Berkeley Prep (24-0), the Class 1A champions, by virtue of their superior strength of schedule. For the Fletcher pairs of Ashton Kirton and Elina Adhikari, Leila Brummel and Lila Waite, Sofia Ventimiglia and Jaylin Sakhno, Karsyn Smith and Ramsey Langton, Amelia Richter and Kylie Brummel and alternates Layla Harvey and Channing Wooten, plus the teammates who trained with them and supported them through the year, this achievement places the Senators into the Northeast Florida history books.
Fletcher beach volleyball joins a short list of Duval County public school teams with serious national championship claims in any sport over the years. Most recently, Ribault girls basketball a decade ago won the four-team Dick's Sporting Goods Nationals against elite opposition at New York's Madison Square Garden in 2017. While the Senators will enter 2027 without more than a half-dozen graduated seniors, several of their top contributors are on course to return, including UAB-committed junior Waite.
Mandarin-Trinity among spring game highlights It's gridiron time. After more than two weeks of practice, the time has come for pads to meet opposing pads in high school football. Spring games officially kick off this week for Northeast Florida with some heavily-anticipated matchups, including Trinity Christian's trip to Mandarin on Thursday, May 14.
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