In his first career Top Fuel race, Josh Hart wasn’t feeling the way most people would. He wasn’t nervous at all. He said he became comfortable very fast at the 2021 NHRA Gatornationals and was calmer than a normal driver. Hart had made it to the final round of the …
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Before every girl’s basketball game this season at Bronson Middle/High School, Payton Stanley, 15, led her team in the Lord’s Prayer. “Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Stanley, nicknamed “Scrappy” by her …
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Alachua Mayor Gib Coerper formally recognized the Santa Fe High School Lady Raiders volleyball team on Monday as pioneers in the school's history of girls' athletics.
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For the 37.04 seconds it took Erin Jackson to glide across the ice, some held their breath while others cheered. Either way, the local roller sports community rooted wholeheartedly for their Marion County mentor half a world away. She delivered. The 29-year-old from Ocala made history as the first Black …
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The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics came to a close on Sunday. In February, nearly 2,900 athletes from 91 nations competed in the pandemic Games, according to a Team USA press release. The U.S. finished fourth on the medal table, earning a collective 25 medals (8 gold, 10 silver and 7 …
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February is American Heart Month. Play Tennis Gainesville hosted clinics to increase outreach about heart health. WUFT visited the clinic to take a closer look.
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Ocala native Erin Jackson won gold in the women’s 500-meter speedskate on Sunday. “It’s like a dream come true,” Jackson said. “I wouldn’t have predicted this a year ago.” After slipping at the U.S. Olympic trials and failing to finish in the top two in any of her events, going …
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It was an immensely personal moment for an inline skating champion from balmy Ocala, Florida, who traded her wheels for blades in order to chase an improbable Olympic dream.
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Last week, Faulkner reached another milestone when his team beat Forest High School of Ocala in dominant fashion. In his eighth year of coaching at Columbia, it was his 138th win, and the most of any coach in school history.
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Turkey Creek Golf Course now exists as one of only two public golf courses in Alachua County.
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