Former Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High and Florida Tech basketball player Carl McNally is extending his career, agreeing to a contract with the Milton Keynes Lions in the British Basketball League, the highest level of pro basketball played in Great Britain.
Congratulations to the man that FIT announcers like to call “The mayor of Cocoa Beach.” We know you will be a great ambassador for us as you travel across the pond, too!
Coach Michael Hall, who Fl Today earlier reported as Mike Gaudy’s heir apparent, is moving further south down the beach and will be coaching the ladies again.
from floridatoday.com:
For the third time in three years, Satellite High has a new head girls basketball coach — and Michael Hall wants to halt that trend.
AdvertisementHall, 32, has been hired as the Scorpions coach. He replaces Ron Simpkins, who resigned because of family obligations after guiding Satellite to a 17-12 record and a Class 5A regional quarterfinal appearance last season.
A native of Green Bay, Wis., Hall has spent the last three seasons as an assistant with Cocoa Beach Highs boys program.
“Under Mike Gaudy, Cocoa Beachs boys coach, I really learned how to run a program,” Hall said. “My goal now is to bring structure into the Satellite program. I want to build my own program.”
High school students seeking to put the best shine on their college applications will soon be able to choose which of their SAT scores to share with admissions officers and which to hide, the College Board said Friday.
The new policy, starting with the class of 2010, will allow students to take the widely used college entrance exam multiple times without admissions officers seeing their less-than-stellar efforts. Now, colleges receive scores of all the times a student attempted the dreaded test, whether the results were spectacular, mediocre or worse.
Recall that this will not affect the fact that Florida public colleges and universities still have automatic access to all sittings of all tests you have taken.
From St. Pete Times:
USF trustees voted Thursday to charge in-state graduate and undergraduate students between 6 and 10 percent more, while lowering the bill for out-of-state graduate students in select programs.
There has been a noticeable shift towards USF by our graduates, especially with the class of 2008.
From the Tallahassee Democrat:
The FSU board of trustees on Friday approved higher tuition rates along with a two-year budget plan geared to help the university survive Florida’s struggling economy and the budget cuts it’s bringing.
University of Florida and Florida State Universityundergraduates will pay 6 percent higher tuition this fall, but new students will see a hefty 15 percent hike instead because of a recently passed state law.
The 57-year-old was pulled over by the Florida Highway Patrol at 7 p.m. Sunday, after witnesses reported a red Porsche traveling northbound through Martin County in a reckless manner, according to the arrest affidavit.
TITUSVILLE, Fla. — In the shadow of the Kennedy Space Center, the countdown has begun in the towns that run on the space program’s clock.
NASA is retiring its shuttle fleet in two years, and for at least five years after that, no humans will launch from Florida’s “Space Coast.”
Communities built up around Cape Canaveral figure to take a hobbling hit. There will be no more blastoffs by Atlantis, Discovery or Endeavour to pack hotels and viewing sites with tourists.
Up to 6,400 of the 8,000 shuttle contractors in the area will lose their jobs, according to early NASA estimates.
from Florida Today coverage of UF meeting:
GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida’s governing body is meeting in Gainesville, with the cost oftuition at the top of the agenda.
from Florida Today coverage of FSU meeting:
TALLAHASSEE — When the Florida State University Board of Trustees meet Friday, its members will vote on new tuition rates, including for in-state students without extra differential fees, which would be raised from $3,470 to $3,778.
