By Andrea Holata BRIGHTON — The Okeechobee High School (OHS) softball team has a new head coach with a resume to mold champions. Mary Huff, of Brighton, served as the junior varsity coach last season and was recently promoted to head coach for the Brahmans’ varsity team. The journey to becoming head

BRIGHTON — Extraordinary cowboys and cowgirls from ranches throughout Florida put talent to the test at the two weekend-long Ranch Rodeo Shootout hosted by Tribal Council and the Okeechobee Cattlemen’s Association. "I’ve been all around the country from one professional rodeo to the next and sometimes it’s just good to get

BIG CYPRESS — Two decades as a big sugar executive plus 13 years as Clewiston’s municipal golf director is an ace in the hole for the Seminole Tribe with the recent hire of a new Big Cypress golf instructor, Adolfo Pena. "I’m part of the bigger plan to bring a casino

PLANTATION — Kiauna Martin knows how it feels to be a champion; at 14 years old, she has already been one twice. Martin and her fastpitch softball team, the Gold Coast Hurricanes, won the Triple Crown Sports Summer National tournament, 14U division, in August at Myrtle Beach, S.C. The final game

PHOENIX — Phoenix became a basketball haven from July 17-21 when more than 1,900 athletes and coaches representing 167 Tribes competed in the 11th annual Native American Basketball Invitational (NABI). The tournament, one of the largest in Indian Country, featured players ages 13 to 19. Seminoles competed on inter-tribal teams: boys

By Andrea Holata OKEECHOBEE — Forty-five Native American teams converged in Okeechobee, Fla. July 18-20 to compete in the annual Native American Youth Organization (NAYO) baseball and softball tournament hosted this year by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Tribes from the across the southeast United States were represented, including the Cherokees, Choctaws,

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — High school senior Kirsten Doney recently used her formidable golf skills to earn a second place finish in her division at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Golf National Championship, held July 18-21 in Greeneville, Tenn. About 300 kids in age groups from 6U to 18U played in

DAVIE — Hollywood residents may live in the city, but many have enough country inside them to compete in the rodeo arena. During the summer, some city kids saddled up for the Kids’ Summer Buckle Rodeo Series at the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds in Davie. The young cowboys and cowgirls train at

HOLLYWOOD — Janae and Wren Bankston have been riding horses since they were too small to ride bikes. At the tender ages of 4 and 3 respectively, Janae and Wren learned to control 1,000-pound horses with confidence. Now at ages 10 and 7, the equestriennes are old hands at horsemanship,

The end of summer doesn’t portend the end of baseball season in Seminole country. With weekly baseball clinics by Press On Sports and DeMatties Baseball, the season continues year-round. To measure the progress of players, coach Richard Gonzalez, of Press On Sports, hands out incentive awards every few months. Immokalee players