Marty Lee started coaching with one small promise to himself all those years ago. If Lee could walk away at the very end of his coaching career at First Coast High School knowing that he’d made his mentors proud, then he’d have fulfilled that promise.

It’s the first round of the high school football playoffs and championship expectations are still intact for numerous area teams. A look at playoff matchups in the Metro division.

Coach Marty Lee had a simple checklist for his First Coast football team in Friday night’s regular-season finale.

It’s been a busy week in on the high school football head coaching circuit with Atlantic Coast, Keystone Heights and Menendez filling their vacancies.

The road to the high school football state playoffs is set.

The high school football regular season is in the books and the playoffs are on tap. Who’s in, who’s out and who’s going where? That will be finalized on Sunday morning when the FHSAA releases its first brackets for its new Suburban and Metro state playoffs.

The overall feeling from high school football coaches on both sides of the aisle following Monday's vote to shake up the infrastructure in the state — shock.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. High school athletics across the area remain in much different places in their return to sports during a global pandemic. The official start date for high school sports practice in Florida remains July 27, although that seems to be an extreme best case scenario as districts around the area are in much different places of what they feel comfortable doing. She said that Duval is in a holding pattern at this point as the county awaits word from the Florida High School Athletic Association on the start date for fall sports. The FHSAA Fall Sports Task Force has held three meetings in the past month and suggested to explore the idea of moving the start date back to no earlier than Aug. 10. We were told were doing a good job, following CDC guidelines, following protocol, said First Coast High School football coach and athletic director Marty Lee.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Summer and youth sports camps are off and running but returning to sports for high school athletes remains a work in progress in several area school districts. But high school sports are another slice of the pie and the return has been slow going due to safety precautions. How do the mid-June reintroduction of athletes to high school campuses look in the big picture? Baseball and softball practice for summer high school sports, a rarity in the prep landscape, resumed Monday in Iowa. Area school districts open for high school athletics