“When we introduce ourselves, it is the name given to us as a child. My name is Gaagwagyehe: The sun is leaning, the orb is going down, like the sunset.” This line from Jeremy Thompson, member of the Iroquois Confederacy of the Onondaga Nation and professional lacrosse player, illustrates this summer’s

HOLLYWOOD — The NAYO rotation has landed in Hollywood. The Seminole Tribe will host the annual Native American Youth Organization baseball and softball tournament July 19 to 21. Games will be played on the two fields at the Hollywood Reservation’s Osceola Park and five miles away at Brian Piccolo Sports Park

FORT PIERCE — It didn’t take long for excitement to be part of the new Fort Pierce Reservation Summer Slam Shootout basketball tournament. The one-day adult tournament, which organizers plan to be an annual event, drew three men’s teams to Chupco’s Landing Community Center on June 23. It started with an

FORT MYERS — About 50 girls from Seminole reservations took over the Alico Arena at Florida Gulf Coast University on June 9 for a high level volleyball clinic led by FGCU’s coach. The girls made the “Nest” – the arena’s nickname – their own for the day as they polished and

Cheyenne Nunez ended her first softball season at State College of Florida with a bang. Nunez, of the Brighton Reservation, hit her first collegiate home run and went 3-for-4 in the final game of the season. The dinger came in an 8-4 loss to College of Central Florida on April 24

MOORE HAVEN – Sunni Bearden has kept busy since the Moore Haven High School softball season ended. Bearden, a senior centerfield from the Brighton Reservation, was named the team’s Most Valuable Player during the school’s spring sports awards ceremony May 17. She also signed to play for South Florida State College

Ahnie Jumper’s first collegiate softball season concluded May 11 when Florida Gulf Coast University was bounced out of the ASUN conference tournament in DeLand. Jumper is one of the few athletes in the history of the Seminole Tribe to play for an NCAA Division I sports program. Jumper, of the Big Cypress

MOORE HAVEN – As towering linemen on the football field, Robert Harris and Andrew Fish are tough to miss on Friday nights in the fall. Harris is 6-foot-6, 320 pounds; Fish is 6-4, also 320 pounds. But this spring the large duo from the Brighton Reservation made their presence felt elsewhere. Harris