Leon Bright is among Florida’s most dominant prep football players in history. A 1974 graduate of Merritt Island High School, he rushed for 4,036 yards and 77 touchdowns in his three-year career with the Mustangs. […]
Wallace “Waldo” Williams was without question one of the best all-around athletes to ever grace a Brevard County sports field. He was an integral part of what many consider the best high school football team to ever step on a Brevard County gridiron, the 1972 Merritt Island Mustangs undefeated state championship team. […]
You can find Lee Hathaway at the Space Coast IcePlex, where every week he plays pick-up games of hockey with players as young as 16. This may not seem like a big deal, but consider that Hathaway will soon be 76 and he wears an artificial hip, and an old one at that. […]
Jimmy Black led the most prolific prep football team in the history of Brevard County – the 1972 Merritt Island Mustangs. […]
RANDY POBST WAS A 30 YEAR RESIDENT of Brevard County, graduating from Melbourne High School in 1975. To date, he has won nearly 100 professional road races and 10 professional championships and is a journalist for Motor Trend magazine. […]
Larry Garrison’s love of sports, advocacy of Space Coast sports and his ongoing support of community fitness through Health First’s fitness centers earned him a place as a founding member of the Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame review board at its inception in 2011.
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Steve Freeman was the first of many highly talented soccer “imports” during the legendary reign of Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame member and legendary Florida Tech coach Richard Stottler. […]
Standout basketball player Lynisha Nelson has joined her brother, former Palm Bay Pirate, Florida Gator and two-time All-Pro Reggie Nelson, in the Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame. […]
Ultimate Catch host and Space Coast Daily Outdoors Editor Capt. Eric Ciocher reeled in a monster 33-inch redfish recently in Grant, saying “the pursuit of fish is more than a sport or even a vocation – it is a philosophy of life.” A 2021 Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame inductee in the Sports Journalist category, Ciocher’s love of fishing was a natural lead-in for his career as a multimedia Outdoors journalist. […]
Lexy Denaburg, who led the Merritt Island Mustangs to a state championship in both indoor and beach volleyball, and earned All-American honors in both, is the most dominant prep force in her sport in Brevard County history. […]
A member of the Women’s National Para Ice Hockey Team, Karina Villegas, a 5-foot-6-inch forward, helped the team take the championship against Canada in 2018 and will be defending the title in September 2020 in Las Vegas. […]
During his 50 years coaching high school football in Brevard County Coach Gerald Hodgin earned more state championship rings than any other Space Coast football coach in history. […]
