By Dominic Levings
 Leon’s varsity football team, led by Coach Bill Ragans, defeated Godby High 26-7 at Gene Cox stadium Friday evening. The Lions’ defense was in full force as they held Godby scoreless until midway through the second half.
Junior kicker Sean Allen kicked a 46-yard field goal in the first quarter for the first points of the game. In the second quarter, defensive back Jacorey Ivery slammed Godby’s Jalen Richardson, forcing a fumble. Junior defensive lineman Rodney Jones recovered the ball and scored.
With four minutes left in the half, quarterback …

By Dominic Levings
 The Leon JV football team fell to the Florida High Seminoles 19-14 on Thursday night. The game was played at Bobby Benson field located on Leon’s campus.
The Lions jumped to an early 14-0 lead in the first half. Fullback Vincent Mulvaney scored both touchdowns, taking handoffs from quarterback Sam Myhre.
 But the Lions were unable to maintain the lead and hold off a late second-half rally by the Seminoles. Mental mistakes and turnovers resulted in disaster for the team. The Seminoles scored 19 unanswered points and halted a final …

By Steven Keller

Seniors Tira Bacon and Courtney Lipford were the leaders of the softball program this season.
Lipford came through in the clutch with a three-run home run in extra innings against Lincoln High to put the Lions into the district championship game.
That home run also made the Lions eligible for the regional quarterfinals, a feat that had not been accomplished since 2003.
Lipford led the Lions this season with six home runs, breaking both Leon High and Tallahassee records.
Lipford plans to play at L.B. Wallace Community College in Alabama.
Bacon, a right …

By Andy Rogers

Brandon Phillips, who is graduating this year, was awarded the Childers-Everett Scholarship on May 13 for his athletic involvement on the Leon baseball team.
The scholarship, awarded to one athlete at each high school in Leon County, handed Phillips $1000 to pay for his college tuition.
Phillips has been playing baseball for twelve years. He spent the past two of those years on the Leon varsity baseball team. He played right field and pitcher positions.
The Childers-Everett Scholarship Foundation is in honor of Jimmy Everett, brother of Leon’s Assistant Principal Geni …

 By Janie Jansen
When it comes to using their brains, Megan Kolman and Andrea Caspary don’t limit their intelligence to the classroom.
In addition to having unweighted grade point averages above 3.80, the Leon duo invariably outwits its opponents on the tennis court.
It was those smarts which enabled Kolman and Caspary to lead the Leon girls varsity tennis team to the 2010 state championship, the first ever by a team from the entire Panhandle region.
Their mental prowess was never more valuable than on the final day of the state tournament, when they …

By Janie Jansen
Sophomore Delaney Dye did not start diving until this year, but she’s already making a splash on a national level.
On the weekend of April 10-11, Dye traveled to Ohio for the National Competition, competing in the 16- to 18-year-old division.
Dye placed 20th in her age division, which she qualified for by winning first place in the FHSAA state competition. Dye was one of six competitors from Florida.
Dye felt she could have placed higher if it hadn’t been for her injury during warm up.
“I was in the middle of …

By Steven Keller
People often compare high school to a journey. It’s something that everyone must go through on the quest for man- or womanhood.
For me, it was a little different. My high school career was a little more like a tennis match: bouncing off the walls, taking crazy paths, but eventually getting down to the final point, the difference between a win and a loss.
It’s been a long and winding road, a long three-setter that has taken a lot out of me. In fact, I can remember many of the …

By Steven Keller
They danced on tables at a Greek restaurant near Disney World, sang songs during the four-hour drive home in their mini-van and laughed until their sides hurt as freshman Mary Phillips Smith kept them entertained with one outrageous funny line after another.
It was a celebration worthy of the occasion for the 2010 Leon High School girls varsity state championship tennis team.
After all, these ladies made history.
With their victory in Orlando’s Sanlando Park, they not only became Leon’s first tennis team to win a state championship, they became the …

By Logan Reid
Coach Michael Braun, Leon’s offensive line coach, is participating in a fundraiser for Jimmy Everett all throughout Tallahassee to lose weight. This program is called “Get Fit Tallahassee,” and sponsors participants to lose weight, donating money for each pound Braun loses to be donated towards Jimmy Everett’s fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS – otherwise known as Lou Gherig’s disease.
Jimmy Everett was the athletic director of Lincoln High School when Braun was coaching football at Lincoln. Braun coached for five years at Lincoln; Everett oversaw him over …

By Andy Rogers
The scene at the Leon High School tennis courts on the afternoon of April 22 was a historical one.
With the boys and girls varsity tennis teams both hosting Booker T. Washington of Pensacola in the Region I finals, the student body packed the house. The Leon tennis boosters offered up free lunch and then the fifth, sixth and seventh period classes came down the steps to take in the action. For over two hours, the courts were literally surrounded by screaming fans.
“I’ve never seen anything like that in …