The Academy Wildcat sports year is off to a great start. Our 3-time State Champion Football team has started the season at 4-0, and is riding a 22-game win streak. Stay tuned for another exciting run at a third consecutive state championship! Our Varsity Cheerleading team is touting its largest and most experienced roster, and is...Read More
There is a new top team after Clearwater Central Catholic defeated Bishop McLaughlin in the always-tough Berkeley Premier tournament on Saturday. Calvary Christian also played in that tournament, losing its first match of the season. Osceola is now the only undefeated team in the area, but that could be tested this weekend. And welcome Academy...Read More
Original article by Rodney Page, Tampa Bay Times Honorable Mention Academy at the Lakes: Jack Teeter; Anclote: Brock Decker; Bishop McLaughlin: Adam Berry, Thomas Sutton; Central: Rashaad Boyce, Justin Gay, Ryan Ebberup; Cypress Creek: Ray Camacho, Peyton Petry, Ethan Petry, Arvind Latchana; Fivay: Erik Scott, Michael Finn; Hernando: Dalton Black, Connor Morgan, Steve Taylor; Hernando...Read More
Original article by Bob Putnam, Tampa Bay Times Our staff picks for the top players in Pasco and Hernando counties for the 2019 season. Coming Thursday: Our all-Hillsborough County team. Player of the Year Lexi Kilfoyl, Sr., Academy at the Lakes Coach of the Year Diane Stephenson, Academy at the Lakes First team P Callie...Read More
Even though the season is over, that doesn’t mean that our incredible 2019 Softball State Championship Team’s achievements are. The following student-athletes have been named All-State and/or All-State Academic: All-State Softball Team Lexi Kilfoyl Hannah Church Devyne Davis Vanessa Alexander Caitlin Blankenship Jessica Mott All- State Academic Softball Kacey Akins Jackie Laihinen Lexi Kilfoyl...Read More
CHICAGO (May 30, 2019) — In its 34th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company today announced Lexi Kilfoyl of Academy at the Lakes as its 2018-19 Gatorade Florida Softball Player of the Year. Now a two-time winner, Kilfoyl was the first Gatorade Florida Softball Player of the Year to...Read More
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Sofia Knopf of Norton (Mass.) High School, Ashley Wruble of DuBois Central High (Pa.), Lexi Kilfoyl of Academy at the Lakes High (Land O’Lakes, Fla.), Kenedy Hines of Klein Collins High (Spring, Texas) and Elizabeth Avery of Bishop O’Dowd High (Oakland, Calif.) were selected MaxPreps / NFCA National High School Players of...Read More
Original article by Paul Ivice, Orlando Sentinel Mount Dora Christian’s bid for a girls softball state championship came to an abrupt halt Wednesday when the Bulldogs ran into a buzz saw named Lexi Kilfoyl and lost 11-0 in the Class 2A state final at the Jackie Robinson Training Center in Vero Beach. Kilfoyl, a senior...Read More
Original Article by Bob Putnam, Tampa Bay Times The Wildcats, behind yet another gem from Lexi Kilfoyl, become the first Pasco County softball team to win back-to-back titles. VERO BEACH — The underclassmen on the Academy at the Lakes softball team headed back to their hotel after Tuesday’s state semifinal to take an English exam....Read More
