Orlando area teams have won seven of the past 13 FHSAA boys volleyball state championships but Metro Conference powers dominated like never before this season. Freedom, which won the 2019 state title, repeated that feat after the 2020 season was wiped out by the COVID-19 outbreak. And the second best team in the state — according to MaxPrep rankings — was Winter Park, which lost only once, to Freedom.

Sophomore pitcher Libby Levendoski and head coach Brittany Beall are finalists for Florida Dairy Farmers statewide softball honors after leading Eustis to its first state championship last month. Levendoski was named Class 4A player of the year and Beall was named 4A coach of the year this week based on voting by coaches and media representatives. The overall Dairy Farmers Miss Softball and coach-of-the-year winners are scheduled to be announced Tuesday.

Bryce Boneau of Keller (Texas) High School has been named the 2020-21 Gatorade National Boys Soccer Player of the Year.

Alyssa Thompson of Harvard-Westlake High School in Los Angeles, Calif. has been named Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year.

Former UCF basketball standout Keith Clanton has played overseas for nine different teams in eight different countries in his eight-year professional career. He’s a free agent who soon will be looking for another destination on next season’s international basketball circuit. But for the past three weeks Clanton was back home in the U.

Matanzas High School principal Jeff Reaves did not have to look far when identifying the ideal candidate to replace Zach Rigney as the school’s new athletics director. Matanzas has named former Flagler Palm Coast High School baseball coach Jordan Butler as its new AD. Butler has worked for Flagler County Schools since 2010, most recently as the director of the Flagler County Youth Center at 5510 E.