New teams for 2025

[nolebull813]

Anyone hear of new teams popping up for 2025? Any new public schools opening? 
 

I read that McLaughlin Academy in Lake Wales is gonna try 11-man football this coming year. I believe they have been around for a while but have never played football in their history 

[Nulli Secundus]

7 hours ago, nolebull813 said:

Anyone hear of new teams popping up for 2025? Any new public schools opening? 
 

I read that McLaughlin Academy in Lake Wales is gonna try 11-man football this coming year. I believe they have been around for a while but have never played football in their history 

It's been around for roughly 60 years as it opened in 1964 as Lake Wales Junior High.  Maybe the can snag from the Highlanders, lol.

[nolebull813]

26 minutes ago, Nulli Secundus said:

It's been around for roughly 60 years as it opened in 1964 as Lake Wales Junior High.  Maybe the can snag from the Highlanders, lol.

Look for Lake Wales to be joining the Heartland Athletic Association soon. Lol. 

[Nulli Secundus]

52 minutes ago, nolebull813 said:

Look for Lake Wales to be joining the Heartland Athletic Association soon. Lol. 

They got Lakeland's QB for what it's worth and appear to be stocking up.

[Longtime Observer]

10 hours ago, nolebull813 said:

Anyone hear of new teams popping up for 2025? Any new public schools opening? 
 

I read that McLaughlin Academy in Lake Wales is gonna try 11-man football this coming year. I believe they have been around for a while but have never played football in their history 

Will Lakeland be fielding a passing attack in 2025? If so, that's kind of a new team. 

[MarkECannon]

3 hours ago, Nulli Secundus said:

They got Lakeland's QB for what it's worth and appear to be stocking up.

Is this the QB that transferred from Auburndale to Lakeland last season?

[Nulli Secundus]

1 hour ago, MarkECannon said:

Is this the QB that transferred from Auburndale to Lakeland last season?

That would be the one.  Round Robin it seems...

[nolebull813]

So I looked up new public schools in Florida and this what I found. This doesn’t mean they will have football, it just means they are opening soon. 
 

Morgan High - Hillsborough county opening fall 2025

Legacy High - Port St Lucie opening fall 2025

Wellen Park - Sarasota County opening fall 2026

Soundside High School- Santa Rosa County opening fall 2026

CCC High School- Marion County opening fall 2026

[MarkECannon]

Here is Wellen Park High in Sarasota County in the Venice area, North Port to be specific.  Babcock Ranch is a recent school that opened in the area.  Apparently they play 8 man and 11 man football.  Wellen High Athletics including football seems very likely with athletic turf included in the construction.

https://www.sarasotacountyschools.net/page/wellen-park-high-school

[MarkECannon]

Morgan High will be located in Wimauma, Hillsborough County.  Could not find specifics about football but I’d be willing to bet good money there will be a football program.

[nolebull813]

18 hours ago, MarkECannon said:

Morgan High will be located in Wimauma, Hillsborough County.  Could not find specifics about football but I’d be willing to bet good money there will be a football program.

I think all public schools will have a varsity football program for sure. I just don’t know if they are gonna play a JV only schedule given the fact there most likely won’t be any seniors. 
 

That area down by Wimauma has exploded. Parrish just built a high school just South of the county line. Sumner is brand new. Lennard isn’t that old. It used to just be East Bay. Now they will have 4 high schools in a 8 mile radius. Which is crazy if you knew how rural that area used to be 

[nolebull813]

This will be the first time since 1957 that Wimauma has a high school. 
 

From 1950-1957 the Wimauma Wildcats played football in the Tampa Bay Conference with teams like Brandon, Largo, Pinecrest, Turkey Creek, Brewster Tech and St Paul’s. 
 

In 1958, East Bay opened in Gibsonton and all the kids from all over Southwest Hillsborough County went there. 

[nolebull813]

I seen a team called Geneva pop up on some schedules from Casselberry. Also Cornerstone Classical from Jax. 

[nolebull813]

Also Babcock from Punta Gorda 

[nolebull813]

Masters Academy from Vero a longtime 8 man team making the jump 

[JDHoss]

On 1/22/2025 at 10:04 AM, nolebull813 said:

So I looked up new public schools in Florida and this what I found. This doesn’t mean they will have football, it just means they are opening soon. 
 

Morgan High - Hillsborough county opening fall 2025

Legacy High - Port St Lucie opening fall 2025

Wellen Park - Sarasota County opening fall 2026

Soundside High School- Santa Rosa County opening fall 2026

CCC High School- Marion County opening fall 2026

According to the (PSL) Legacy school website, they will have football this year, but I don't know if it will be restricted to JV or freshmen games. No idea if they will have their own stadium or if they will share South County Stadium with Treasure Coast, Centennial and sometimes Tradition. 

[nolebull813]

2 hours ago, JDHoss said:

According to the (PSL) Legacy school website, they will have football this year, but I don't know if it will be restricted to JV or freshmen games. No idea if they will have their own stadium or if they will share South County Stadium with Treasure Coast, Centennial and sometimes Tradition. 

Probably JV and really bad varsity teams they play. Usually a public school doesn’t have seniors the first year. I think because it would be kinda crappy for a kid to attend a high school for 3 years and then have to move for his senior year

[JDHoss]

I've seen it work in Tennessee and Virginia, but those were consolidations, where at least two schools were closed and a new one opened, and they were competitive to pretty good on day one. I'm not sure where exactly Legacy will draw from, but I would assume Treasure Coast, Centennial and maybe Tradition. The Becker Road area of PSL is exploding in population. I'd guess most of the kids in the area have been attending TC. I've been out Range Line Road a few times to fish at the McCarty Preserve, but I've not been able to tell if they are building a stadium or not. 

[Perspective]

12 hours ago, JDHoss said:

I've seen it work in Tennessee and Virginia, but those were consolidations, where at least two schools were closed and a new one opened, and they were competitive to pretty good on day one. 

Worked out pretty well for the T.C. Williams Titans.  Remember the Titans?  

[swflfootball5]

Babcock Ranch is a school in Charlotte County. They played 8 man last year and are playing 11 man this year. 

[JDHoss]

8 hours ago, Perspective said:

Worked out pretty well for the T.C. Williams Titans.  Remember the Titans?  

Oh man, did they ever. Our local paper had great coverage of Virginia high school football from across the state, and they were a fascinating follow. They steamrolled everyone except one game against George Marshall that they won by 5. 

[nolebull813]

TC Williams came down to FL back in 2019 and lost to Spruce Creek in a preseason game 34-21. 

[Perspective]

13 hours ago, nolebull813 said:

TC Williams came down to FL back in 2019 and lost to Spruce Creek in a preseason game 34-21. 

Yeah, well, that's because they didn't have Petey, Alan, Gary, Julius and Sunshine.   

[nolebull813]

22 minutes ago, Perspective said:

Yeah, well, that's because they didn't have Petey, Alan, Gary, Julius and Sunshine.   

Spruce Creek didn’t exist back then so I think TC would have beat em 

[nolebull813]

Plus in 2019 those guys would be in their 70’s so I’m pretty sure Spruce Creek could beat a bunch of geriatric retirees