Just off State Road 417, a five-minute drive east from Orlando International Airport, a 650-acre parcel of land is fast becoming a $2 billion medical campus, including a medical school, research laboratories and hospitals. Three years ago the Lake Nona medical city, as it is known, was nothing but a pasture and a promise. Its [...]
With only two holes left at the girls’ Class 1A state golf tournament last year at Golden Hills Golf and Turf Club in Ocala, Ashley Holder was 5-under par as the individual title lay within reach. She would find trouble at the 17th hole, though, and finish in a three-way tie for third overall as [...]
Congratulations to the Lake Nona Boys Golf team who defeated Central Florida Christian Academy on Wednesday, 180 to 234. Once again, Ryan Stovash and Bo Hyltin led the Lions with the low scores of the round. Stovash had a match low 36 and Hyltin added a 41. The win brings the boys’ overall record to [...]
Second-year Lake Nona boys golf coach Justin Johnson was thinking about more than his team’s stroke average when the Lions opened their 2010 season last week against Bishop Moore. Johnson, 28, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in July and has since undergone two of a scheduled four chemotherapy treatments. Despite the diagnosis, Johnson said his [...]
