High School Football

In the final game of a wild 2020 high school football season, one of South Florida’s own set a historic mark with a closer than expected victory. Fort Lauderdale’s St. Thomas Aquinas jumped out to an early lead and fought off a comeback attempt from Orlando Edgewater to get the 31-21 victory in the Class 7A final inside Doak...

The Raiders held off a second half comeback attempt from Orlando Edgewater to win the Class 7A crown on Saturday.

While there is usually plenty of drama when it comes to Florida’s high school state championship games, both Miami Central and Plantation American Heritage ended that notion quickly Friday. The Rockets dismantled Lake Minneola 46-0 to win the Class 6A title while the Patriots went out to a big lead in the first half and held on for the...

The ‘South Florida sweep’ in the annual high school football championships will not take place in 2020 after a second half rally sunk one team from Broward County – hours after one Hialeah school brought home yet another state title. The FHSAA State Championships kicked off Wednesday in Tallahassee, with four straight days of two games each crowning the best…

Entering Thursday’s showdown for the Class 4A title, Jacksonville Bolles was tied for the Florida high school record with 11 previous state titles while Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons entered with just one previous crown. By the end of the game, the Chiefs could call themselves a multiple time champ. Quarterback Brody Palhegyi threw for four touchdown passes and led Cardinal…

For the third straight season, teams from both Miami-Dade and Broward counties will dominate Florida’s high school football state championship games. The FHSAA Football championships begin Wednesday, lasting for eight games and four days inside Doak Campbell Stadium on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee. South Florida has six teams from the area taking part, tying their...

For three and a half quarters Saturday night, it looked like South Florida was going to do the impossible considering a season filled with COVID restrictions, game cancellations and the state’s governing body seemingly doing everything possible to avoid a repeat of 2019. History would not repeat itself, however, as Miami Palmetto’s attempt at a second field goal would...

For the second straight season, South Florida will have a chance at a historic run when it comes to sending high school football teams to the state championships. History could be made Saturday in Class 8A when Miami Palmetto, already in the state semifinal round for the first time in school history, looks to advance another week when they take…

Update: The Florida High School Athletic Association’s board of directors will allow school athletics to begin next month — instead of Monday as originally planned. In a 11-3 vote Thursday night, board members agreed on August 24 as a new target date. The move comes with mixed feeling from coaches and student-athletes. Some worry a delay could affect their college…

Sports stalled? There’s trouble for high school football — and all of fall sports — here in South Florida. NBC 6 anchor Keith Jones reports.

San Diego high school football coach Kurt Hines finds his motivational speaking skills are in more demand than his football knowledge as people struggle with depression in the midst of the pandemic.

Five high school football teams from Miami-Dade and Broward will get a chance to potentially call themselves state champs this week. The annual Florida High School Athletics Association championships continue this weekend in Daytona Beach starting Wednesday night and running through Saturday. Miami’s Booker T. Washington High School will kick off the four-day event on Wednesday night when they...

It’s been said by some who cover sports that Miami-Dade and Broward counties have the best high school football talent in the country – over the past two weekends, that has been confirmed in record numbers. Five schools from the area were able to win state championships this weekend in Daytona Beach this weekend, adding to two more teams that…

NBC 6’s Chris Fischer introduces us to James Williams, who has been a monster on the field for Western High this season while remembering the person closest to him who is no longer with us.