Talk about a warm welcome to the 25th Annual Sunshine State Games (SSG) Water Polo Championships. The Trinidad and Tobago 16 and Under Women’s National Team (pictured below) traveled 1,630 miles from their home 60 miles off the coast of Venezuela and landed in Fort Lauderdale Thursday at 6:30 p.m. After dinner and settling in […]
Since 2000, over 170,000 athletes have participated in the Sunshine State Games (SSG), the State of Florida’s only Olympic-style Sports Festival. At the 2018 SSG Track and Field Championships, in Port Charlotte, Dr. Brian Hickey, a professor in the Florida A&M Department of Health and Physical Education, joined an elite group of amateur athletes when […]
Charlotte County will host a Sunshine State Games (SSG) Summer Games Festival for the first time in the 39-year history of the Games when judo, taekwondo, and track & field are held in the area this weekend. Over 1,000 athletes are expected to compete in the three sports on Saturday and Sunday at Charlotte High […]
More than 700 Sunshine State Games athletes will be in the water and on the archery range this weekend in Gainesville and Lakeland with competitions in Swimming, Synchronized Swimming and Archery. The Games continue through the remainder of the month of June with nine upcoming sports being held in six different Florida communities. The three […]
In the first multi-sport weekend of the 2018 Sunshine State Games, over 2,500 athletes were competing in three sports in three Florida communities. Statewide, 131 individual gold medals were awarded in Figure Skating while eight Basketball team and nine Lacrosse team medals were presented. With more than 300 figure skaters on the ice at Florida […]
The 2018 Sunshine State Games Schedule of Events features more than 30 sports in 19 different Florida communities. Now in its 39th year, the Games are an Olympic-style sports festival offering Floridians of all ages the opportunity to compete in a wide variety of sports. Competition begins this weekend with the Sunshine State Games Dominoes […]
Click this link Florida Football Central Time for the pdf document to download and print. This document has 2018 schedules for Florida’s three NFL teams and 18 college football teams. Welcome to Florida Football NFL Draft Picks The NFL produced 22 new members of Florida’s three teams and 19 players from Florida colleges were drafted. The Jacksonville […]
The 2018 Sunshine State Games Super Regional featured 44 Florida-based Volleyball teams playing in Fort Myers, Saturday, April 14 and Sunday, April 15. See results below in the seven age groups where the winners qualified for the AAU National Championships in Orlando in June. The 14-Year Old Age Group winners, Tainas Volleyball Club, from Orlando (pictured […]
It was a tale of two seasons during the 2018 Florida Spring Training season as 1,497,306 fans attended 237 games over the course of 33 days. For the final 20 days of the 2018 season, March 8 through March 27, an average of 6,907 fans attended 137 games, a 25% increase, over the first 13 […]
During the month of April, the Florida Sports Foundation, a Division of Enterprise Florida, Inc., proudly supports the following 12 events, projected to bring approximately 99,815 visitors and $122.7 million in economic impact to the state, through its quarterly grant program. Winter Equestrian Festival, January 10 – April 1, 2018, Palm Beach County Projected Out […]