While the pandemic took control of the 2020 high school football season – as Deerfield Beach High got to play just five times – it never stood in the way of what head coach Jevon Glenn and his staff preach.
Losing a heart-breaker to Miami Christopher Columbus for the second straight year, this time in the 8A Tri-County Championships, 27-24, stung a bit, but the Bucks quickly turned to the something that has gotten so many to this level.
What Miami Gulliver Prep found out in three hours in the season finale against Cardinal Gibbons, could go a long way in determining the Raiders’ future.
Unlike the season before when they went toe-to-toe with Booker T. Washington when they had reason to believe that they should have won the game against the Tornadoes, they had nothing to say after the Chiefs came south and took care of business – from start to finish.
Many across south Florida often joke about North Miami Beach High’s football team and the less than 30 players head coach Jeff Bertani carries on the roster each year.
While you are joking about those players, you mind as well check those prospects out each year – because they are the ones in better shape and totally more well prepared to play at the next level than just about any athlete in south Florida.
As the world continues to make a slow crawl back towards some sort of pre-pandemic normalcy, a part of that is the return of fans cheering on their favorite teams at sporting events.
Florida Memorial University fans will get the opportunity to do that when the Lions’ football program hosts its first-ever “Blue vs. White” intrasquad spring football game on April 16th at Nathaniel “Traz” Powell Stadium.
If you ask Rocco Casullo how his first year as head coach at Cypress Bay was, he would look at you, bite is tongue and find something positive to say.
What his Lightning went through this past season is not what the veteran football coach had in mind for the first year – making a return to the sport as a head coach.