Posts Tagged ‘Polk County’

As a young boy your mother expects you to play in the dirt, get muddy, ruin clothes and destroy shoes. Somewhere along the line you get older, take down the “no girls allowed” sign in front of the tree house, and eventually trade in the tree house for a real house in an effort to [...]

Polk County was filled with accuracy, athleticism, speed and triumph as the 20th Anniversary Florida International Games and State Championships swept through Central Florida this past week.
For the first time since its two-year run in 2001 and 2002, this nine-day, Olympic-style competition returned to Polk County and featured 22 events in which 1,834 athletes, age [...]

For the first time in eight years, the Florida International Senior Games and State Championships, an Olympic-style competition for athletes age 50 and over, will return to Polk County for the 20th Anniversary Games.
The nine-day event, featuring 23 sports at various locations across Polk County, will take place Saturday, December 3 through Sunday, December 11, [...]

 There are a lot of 5K races that take place throughout the year, but one that you should mark on your calendar every year is the Race for the Arts. It is for a good cause and is always a lot of fun. Make plans (and start training) to be a part of this fun [...]

As we told you in this week’s edition of “This Week in Sports” the ISA Winter Nationals were set to kick off this weekend, the first of four consecutive weekends of competition, but even the Winter Nationals can only take so much of this cold weather. Due to the incoming weather for this weekend, the [...]

“With the ……pick in the NFL Draft, the …… select…..”. These are words that every college football player longs to hear as they make the transition to the next step in their football careers. Several Polk County football players have heard these very words in the past. Names like Ray Lewis, Desmond Clark, Paul Edinger, [...]