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  • For the second consecutive year, the Olympic Heights girls soccer team is the 7A district 2023-2024 Academic Team Champion
  • Congratulations Florida DECA State Champions 2024: Katelynne Deale, Tai Graham, and Elsie Throckmorton!
  • Girls Soccer Coach Jim Cappello is coach of the year, leading the lions to 21 victories, and their eighth straight regional appearance.
  • Soccer: Senior Ava Cardaci was selected 7A District 12 Player of the Year with 15 goals and 27 assists.
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After seven years at the helm of the Olympic Heights baseball program, Coach Casey Beck will be taking over the John I. Leonard program next year.

OH baseball coach Casey Beck leaving for John I. Leonard position: “One of the hardest choices [of] my life.”

Mason Silverstein, Staff Writer May 11, 2021

“The opportunities both on the field, on the course, and in the classroom here at OHHS will never be forgotten, and I am HUMBLE and forever THANKFUL for each second I have been a Lion!”  While...

The Miami Dolphins got two of their top first round targets in Alabama wide receiver Jaylen Waddle (left) and University of Miami defensive end Jaelan Phillips (right).

Dolphins ready to challenge after successful 2021 NFL Draft

Nicholas Tramazzo, Staff Writer May 10, 2021

The Miami Dolphins, who missed making the 2020 NFL playoffs by just one game, had what many draft experts are calling a grade-A 2021 draft. Here’s a breakdown of the Dolphins draft and offseason changes...

Soccer teams make massive sums of money in various ways

Soccer teams make massive sums of money in various ways

Christopher Santos, Staff Writer May 5, 2021

The major soccer teams in the world are able to fund player transfers of tens of millions, and even hundreds of million Euros. Many people are left astonished by how easily a big team can buy a player...

Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores (center) and General Manager Chris Grier (right) have been at the forefront of a rebuilding process that began with Flores hiring after the 2018 season.

Miami Dolphins most recent rebuild nearing culmination

Pedro Lagoeiro, Staff Writer May 4, 2021

Following a wildcard loss in the 2016-17 NFL playoffs, the Miami Dolphins looked like a team left for dead with no hopes for the future. Four average seasons, a coaching change, and 39 trades later, the...

U.S. Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 300 years in prison for years of sexual abuse of U.S. Gymnastics athletes.

Despite legislation, most amateur athletes remain at the mercy of the institutions to which they report sexual abuse

Danielle Anglin, Staff Writer May 3, 2021

The Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act became federal law on Feb. 14, 2018. The law  established the U.S. Center for Safe Sport to act as an independent watchdog...

The biggest question of the 2021 NFL draft is where Floridas tight end Kyle Pitts, considered by many to be the best athlete in the draft, will end up. He could go as high as #4 to the Atlanta Falcons or possibly fall out of the top 10.

The Torch’s Mock 2021 NFL Draft: the Dolphins will get a pass-catcher with the number six pick, but which one?

Brayden Schultz, Staff Writer April 23, 2021

We are now officially less than one week away from the 2021 NFL draft which begins on Thursday, April 29, and the spirit and excitement of draft day are heating up. Before selection night is upon us, though,...

SPORTS WRAP: Flag football scores some sweet swag; Girls tennis shines at districts; Weightlifters take regional hardware

SPORTS WRAP: Flag football scores some sweet swag; Girls tennis shines at districts; Weightlifters take regional hardware

April 23, 2021

FLAG FOOTBALL: The Olympic Heights flag football team was the recipient of some sweet team gear courtesy of the Miami Dolphins and Nike. Miami Dolphins community relations representatives visited OH...

Kylian Mbappe (left) and Erling Haaland (right) are building a soccer rivalry that could equal that of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldos.

France’s Kylian Mbappe and Norway’s Erling Haaland could potentially create the greatest soccer rivalry of all time

Pedro Lagoeiro, Staff Writer April 18, 2021

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, two names even non-soccer fans know. For the past 15 years those two, alongside each other, have broken every type of record and revolutionized the game to be what it...

Olympic Heights soccer players Skylar Deutch (left) and Sydney Durrance (right) both hit the impressive 50 career goals scored mark in their senior seasons.

GOOOAAALLL!!! Olympic Heights soccer players Skylar Deutch and Sydney Durrance reach 50-goal milestone

Mason Silverstein, Staff Writer April 16, 2021

The Olympic Heights girls soccer team has featured some amazingly talented players over the years and this past season has been no exception as two of the team’s athletes achieved an amazing milestone...

After re-signing quarterback Cam Newton to one year contract, the New England Patriots went out and got him two formidable weapons in tight ends Hunter Henry (left) and Jonnu Smith (right).

NFL free agent signing period winners and losers

Brayden Schultz, Staff Writer April 12, 2021

Compared to previous years, this NFL free agency period was a quiet one, although it’s hard to top Tom Brady’s departure from New England as far as entertainment is concerned. All things considered,...

Blatant sexism in sports evident in the differences in NCAA handling of men’s and women’s basketball tournament

Lauren Albano, Staff Writer April 11, 2021

For NCAA basketball fans, the March Madness that is the college basketball championship tournaments are the high holy days. That’s right, tournaments, as in two of them: the men’s and the women’s.  While...

The Miami Heat acquired Victor Oladipo in a trade with the Houston Rockets on the NBA trade deadline day.

More winners than losers after the NBA trade deadline

Joshua Wolf, Sports Editor April 9, 2021

Going into the 2021 NBA season we knew one thing, every team really believed they could make the playoffs as a result of the rule change to include seeds 9 and 10 in each conference in a play in game in...

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