Nease Bartram Trail athletics at the top

Orlando Olympia , Tampa Plant, Ponte Vedra Nease, Gainesville P.K. Yonge, Jacksonville Bolles, Mayo Lafayette, Naples Community School, Tallahassee FAMU and Bradenton Prep lead their respective categories following fall sports competition in the 2007-08 Dodge Sunshine Cup All-Sports Awards Point Standings.

Nease is tops is Class 4A with 506 points over Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville), which finished with 437.5 points. Bolles, with 453 points, is out in front of the Class 3A private schools, 68 points better than second-place Lake Highland Prep (Orlando).

Thanks to very successful fall programs both Nease and Bartram Trail find themselves in the top four of their classes.     

For the 2007-08 school year, the 650 member senior high schools have been divided into six classifications for administrative purposes based on the enrollments submitted to the FHSAA Office in October 2004, which were used to discern the classifications as they are drawn up now.

In accordance with a Board mandate at its November 2002 meeting, Classes 1A, 2A and 3A are further subdivided into public and private categories. An all-sports award will be presented in each of these nine categories in overall, girls and boys divisions at the conclusion of the 2007-08 school year.

Points are awarded a school based on its finish in FHSAA State Series competition in each sport in the classification in which it has been assigned to compete.

The top 16 places are scored. In bracket sports, points are awarded as follows: 100 for the state champion, 90 for the state runner-up, 83 for the state semifinalists, 60 for 5-8th places, and 25 for 9-16th places.

In non-bracket sports, points are awarded as follows: 100, 90, 85, 80, 70, 63, 56, 49, 38, 34, 30, 26, 22, 18, 14, 10.

Schools get a 5-point bonus for winning a district or regional championship, and points are deducted for unsporting conduct: 0.5 points for student-athlete ejection/unsporting conduct incident; 1.0 for student-athlete gross unsporting conduct incident; 2.0 for coach ejection/unsporting conduct incident, plus addition 0.5 points deducted for each $50 amount above initial fine; and approximately 3-5 additional points deducted for a school or team-based violation (e.g., bench-clearing brawl, coaches takes team off the field, etc.).

When two or more schools are tied for a particular place in a sport, the points allotted for those places are shared equally by the schools that are tied.

In the event of a tie for the award in either the overall, girls or boys divisions at the end of the school year, the following tiebreakers will be used: (1) number of state team championships won; (2) number of state team runners-up finishes; (3) number of regional team championships won; (4) number of regional team runners-up finishes; (5) number of district team championships won; and (6) number of district team runners-up finishes.

Winners will be honored in their communities by local Dodge dealers during the 2008-09 school year.

Here are the top 10 teams in the overall standings, as well as girls program and boys program standings:

Overall Standings

CLASS 5A
1. Plant (Tampa), 509.5 points.
2. Leon (Tallahassee), 433.
3. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale), 420.
4. Bartram Trail (Jacksonville), 380.
5. Satellite (Satellite Beach), 297.
6. Newsome (Lithia), 282.
7. Chiles (Tallahassee), 244.
8. Fort Myers, 229.
9. Seminole, 212.
10. Lake Howell (Winter Park), 188.

CLASS 4A
1. Nease (Ponte Vedra Beach), 506 points.
2. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville), 437.5.
3. Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale), 313.
4. Naples, 299.
5. Washington (Pensacola), 261.
6. Bishop Moore (Orlando), 244.5.
7. Belen Jesuit (Miami), 220.
8. Nature Coast (Brooksville), 213.
9. Gulf Breeze, 168.
10. Booker (Sarasota), 150.

CLASS 3A PRIVATE
1. Bolles (Jacksonville), 453 points.
2. Lake Highland Prep (Orlando), 385.
3. Berkeley Prep (Tampa), 320.
4. American Heritage (Plantation), 291.
5. Pine Crest (Fort Lauderdale), 279.
6. Episcopal (Jacksonville), 262.
7. Ransom Everglades (Miami), 256.5.
8. Gulliver Prep (Miami), 228.
9. Trinity Prep (Winter Park), 214.
10. Pensacola Catholic, 160.5.

Boys Standings

CLASS 5A
1. Bartram Trail (Jacksonville), 243 points.
2. Plant (Tampa), 234.5.
3. Leon (Tallahassee), 205.
4. Jesuit (Tampa), 161.5.
5. Chiles (Tallahassee), 144.

CLASS 4A
1. Nease (Ponte Vedra Beach), 251 points.
2. Washington (Pensacola), 231.
3. Belen Jesuit (Miami), 220.
4. Naples, 210.
5. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville), 179.5.

CLASS 3A PRIVATE
1. Bolles (Jacksonville), 231 points.
2. Trinity Prep (Winter Park), 163.
3. Gulliver Prep (Miami), 123.
4. American Heritage (Plantation), 111.
5. Ransom Everglades (Miami), 108.

Girls Standings

CLASS 4A
1. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville), 258 points.
2. Nease (Ponte Vedra Beach), 255.
3. Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale), 187.
4. Lemon Bay (Englewood), 143.
5. Archbishop McCarthy (Fort Lauderdale), 136.

CLASS 3A PRIVATE
1. Lake Highland Prep (Orlando), 375 points.
2. Bolles (Jacksonville), 222.
3. Berkeley Prep (Tampa), 219.
4. Episcopal (Jacksonville), 202.
5. Pine Crest (Fort Lauderdale), 190.