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Jasmyne Roberts Named Florida Dairy Farmers Class 4A Girls Player of the Year

Jasmyne Roberts Named Florida Dairy Farmers Class 4A Girls Player of the Year

Jasmyne Roberts, BK Class of ’21 received a new title on Tuesday, March 16, Florida’s Best in Class 4A girls’ basketball.  Roberts is committed to play basketball for the University of Miami in the Fall. Roberts transferred to BK as a sophomore and has been the starting guard since 10th grade. Roberts stated, “I love playing guard […]

Spartan girls win 10th consecutive state soccer championship trophy

Spartan girls win 10th consecutive state soccer championship trophy

On Wednesday, March 3, the girls’ varsity soccer team of St. Johns Country Day School won their 10th consecutive state championship trophy. The Spartans 6-0 defeat of Ft. Myers’ Canterbury School began when St. Johns scored two goals in the first two minutes of the game. By the half, Mia Sadler ‘21 had scored twice […]

Barksdale, Delong and Dora win Episcopal Science Fair

Barksdale, Delong and Dora win Episcopal Science Fair

Sally Barksdale, Daniel Delong and Miranda Dora were the winners of the Science Fair held at Episcopal School of Jacksonville in late January. Barksdale took home top honors in the senior biological category with a project titled, “Machine learning to predict cancer treatments with genetic biomarkers. Delong and Dora both took top honors in the […]

St. Paul’s-Riverside students win awards at regional science fair

St. Paul’s-Riverside students win awards at regional science fair

Two middle school students from St. Paul’s Catholic School-Riverside bagged first- and third-place awards in two categories at the Northeast Florida Regional Science and Engineering Fair (NEFRSEF) during virtual awards on Feb. 23. Sixth-grader Marco A. Chua won first place in Medicine and Health with his project titled, “Stop Cross-Contact: How Proper Washing of Shared […]

Eight Crusaders sign to play college athletics

Eight Crusaders sign to play college athletics

Eight Bishop Kenny student athletes signed letters of intent committing to play a sport at the collegiate level on National Signing Day Feb. 3.  The students will attend seven different colleges and universities with five sports being represented. Michael Myslinski signed to play football for the University of Iowa.  Myslinski will be playing center on […]

Assumption Celebrates Catholic School Week

Assumption Celebrates Catholic School Week

Students joined with their families, faculty, parishioners, and community members to kick off the celebration of Catholic Schools Week (CSW) with a Mass that was celebrated at Assumption Catholic Church on Jan. 31.  This event traditionally begins on the last Sunday of January and runs throughout the week with many fun and memorable activities.  The […]

Bolles student-athletes sign on to play in college

Bolles student-athletes sign on to play in college

San Marco resident Davis Ellis and San Jose residents Layne Rivera and Izzy Kimberly were among 13 Bolles student-athletes honored during a special ceremony Feb. 3 for committing to a particular college or university to continue their athletic and academic careers.  Family, friends, classmates, coaches, and faculty gathered in Davis Gymnasium on the San Jose Campus […]

National Merit Finalists Announced

National Merit Finalists Announced

Officials with the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of 15,000 finalists in the 66th Annual National Merit Scholarship Program and several students from Jacksonville’s historic neighborhoods were on the list. Approximately 90% of the students named as semi-finalists advanced to the final round. Each will be presented at their school with a “Certificate […]