PeachtreeCat
11-28-2006, 04:28 PM
For those awaiting for my weekly updates, the AJC did not have one for this week. Instead, they feature a great high school football program in FLA. We need to make some inroads on recruiting here just like at LaGrange. Maybe Spanish Moss or others can help.
One school, nine Div. I recruits
Six Lakeland stars commit to Florida
By Carter Strickland (mailto:cstrickland@ajc.com)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 11/28/06
Lakeland, Fla. —- On the outside, this place wears a shade of typical.
It's an ordinary, roll-up-the-sleeves city straddling the midpoint between the manufactured miracles of Disney to the north and body-stacked beaches of Florida's west coast.
There's a high school, Lakeland, that spreads its series of red brick buildings and temporary trailers over the south side of that city but reaches deeper into the heart of the community.
And if you look closely, you see the rings. Diamond-dusted, big-as-a-paperweight rings. Symbols of what this place has become and what these people have done. And each ring is branded with a No. 1, winking right there in the center.
"We spent around $30,000 on them," said Ron Riggs, former president of the Lakeland Booster Club.
This is what you do for the high school national champions of 2005.
Linger long enough here, and the history comes into view. Five state titles, 43 straight victories, a No. 1 national ranking last year and No. 4 this year with two games to go in the playoffs.
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/printedition/2006/11/28/sptlakeland1128a.html
One school, nine Div. I recruits
Six Lakeland stars commit to Florida
By Carter Strickland (mailto:cstrickland@ajc.com)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 11/28/06
Lakeland, Fla. —- On the outside, this place wears a shade of typical.
It's an ordinary, roll-up-the-sleeves city straddling the midpoint between the manufactured miracles of Disney to the north and body-stacked beaches of Florida's west coast.
There's a high school, Lakeland, that spreads its series of red brick buildings and temporary trailers over the south side of that city but reaches deeper into the heart of the community.
And if you look closely, you see the rings. Diamond-dusted, big-as-a-paperweight rings. Symbols of what this place has become and what these people have done. And each ring is branded with a No. 1, winking right there in the center.
"We spent around $30,000 on them," said Ron Riggs, former president of the Lakeland Booster Club.
This is what you do for the high school national champions of 2005.
Linger long enough here, and the history comes into view. Five state titles, 43 straight victories, a No. 1 national ranking last year and No. 4 this year with two games to go in the playoffs.
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/printedition/2006/11/28/sptlakeland1128a.html