Jobe Johns made sure he made the most out of the final 8.92 seconds of his high school rodeo career. That blistering figure is all it took for Jobe to tie down the calf in his last event as a high schooler July 23. Even though he was on his backup

Courtney Gore, 2016 Miss Florida High School Rodeo Queen, joined 43 other young ladies and represented her state in the National High School Rodeo Queen Competition in Gillette, Wyoming July 15-23 during the National High School Finals Rodeo. Courtney competed against winners from 40 other states and three Canadian provinces. Although

For five girls from the Brighton Reservation, the summer of 2016 won’t soon be forgotten. Tiyanni Anderson, Lason Baker, Preslynn Baker, Merlelaysia Billie and Alyssa Madrigal played for the Okeechobee Darlings softball team that won a state championship in July and then finished runner-up in the Dixie Darlings World Series in

BRIGHTON — As Cheyenne Nunez sat on a picnic bench wearing her purple Okeechobee High letter jacket near the ball fields on the Brighton Reservation, a voice from hundreds of yards away pierced the quiet late morning. “Hi Cheyenne,” yelled the student from far across the complex. Cheyenne responded back with a

  BIG CYPRESS — DeForest Carter’s abundance of energetic enthusiasm for basketball – as a player and an instructor – could stretch from coast-to-coast. Even though the former Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University star is too old to compete in the Jim Thorpe All Indian Games, he still hopes to make an impact

ST. PETERSBURG -- For the second year in a row, a Class 3A regional softball final was filled with Seminoles. Moore Haven’s Sunni Bearden, Sydnee Cypress, Kalgary Johns and Diamond Shore faced Admiral Farragut’s Martina Herrera and an injured Deliah Carrillo in St. Petersburg April 26 with a trip to the

PEMBROKE PINES — With golf clubs swinging amid a friendly competition, Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 23 hosted a golf tournament April 23 at the Hollybrook Golf and Tennis Club in Pembroke Pines. The inaugural tournament drew 64 participants. Tribal veterans Max Osceola and Stephen Bowers were among the approximately