News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery. Each day over the next week, News4JAX will roll out a photo gallery from that day.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery. Each day over the next week, News4JAX will roll out a photo gallery from that day.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery. Each day over the next week, News4JAX will roll out a photo gallery from that day.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery. Each day over the next week, News4JAX will roll out a photo gallery from that day.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery. Each day over the next week, News4JAX will roll out a photo gallery from that day.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery. Each day over the next week, News4JAX will roll out a photo gallery from that day.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery. Each day over the next week, News4JAX will roll out a photo gallery from that day.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery. Each day over the next week, News4JAX will roll out a photo gallery from that day.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery. Each day over the next two weeks, News4JAX will roll out a photo gallery from that day.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery. Each day over the next two weeks, News4JAX will roll out a photo gallery from that stop.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery.

News, notes and notables from the Baker’s Sports High School Football media day on Tuesday.

News4JAX spent a few weeks over the summer checking in on area high school football programs as they prepared for the regular season. Photographer Amber Milton captured those days in this photo gallery.

The high school football season in Florida kicks off in mid-August. Here’s a team-by-team look at individual schedules for schools in the News4JAX Florida coverage region.

High school football season in the Peach State is right around the corner. Here are team-by-team schedules for the seven teams in the News4JAX coverage region.

High school football season in Florida kicks off in less than a month. Here is the week-by-week schedule for teams in the News4JAX Florida coverage region. This will be updated throughout the season.

The high school football season in Georgia is closing in and News4JAX has the weekly schedules for the seven teams in our coverage region — Brunswick, Camden County, Charlton County, Frederica Academy, Glynn Academy, Pierce County and Ware County. This will be updated weekly with results throughout the season.

St. Johns Country Day's Brayden Harris is the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX baseball player of the year for the second straight season.

Palatka's Kedric Wright Jr. leads the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX boys track and field team.

Fleming Island's Mikayla Shavers is now the back-to-back Varsity 4 All-News4JAX girls track and field athlete of the year.

Mac Jones along with Bolles football stars Xander Edwards and Asher Ghioto held a football camp at Fort Family Park on Monday. Click through the images above to check out action from the camp.

The countdown to the high school football season is on. Each weekday from July 13 to Aug. 15 Week 0 opening night, News4JAX will count down its list of top 25 players. The list is heavily weighted towards recruiting and projecting the top players in the area.

Ponte Vedra's Izzy Murray is the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX flag football player of the year.

Bishop Snyder star Cole Dennis and Glynn Academy’s Wessley Roberson were selected just three spots apart in the fourth round on the opening day of the Major League Baseball draft on Saturday.

Episcopal's Brooke McCoy ends her career as a two-time Varsity 4 All-News4JAX girls lacrosse player of the year.

Ponte Vedra's Baylor Vu is the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX boys lacrosse player of the year.

Nease's Will Chaves leads the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX boys tennis team for the second straight year.

Nease's Danielle Wei leads the Varsity All-News4JAX girls tennis team.

Columbia High School freshman Ryleigh Stone is the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX softball player of the year.

EA Sports rolled out its full list of rosters and rankings for its popular College Football 27 video game over the weekend, and the area has a slew of local players in the game. Nearly 120 players with local ties appear in the video game this year. Here’s a look at the players and their overall rating.

Former Fletcher High School basketball star and Florida State guard Lajae Jones is headed to the NBA after being selected in the second round by Golden State on Wednesday night.

Mandarin soccer star Robert Calazans added one more big award to his trophy case.

It has been a very busy offseason for high school football teams in the area as the head coaching changes encroach on nearly 20.

The Open division is now a reality in high school sports, ushered in by a unanimous vote by the Florida High School Athletic Association’s board of directors on Tuesday morning.

Sofia Rivera, the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX Girls Golfer of the Year, began play Thursday in the U.S. Women’s Open at Riviera Country Club, becoming the youngest golfer from Northeast Florida to ever compete in the prestigious championship.

The Florida High School Athletic Association has released a packed schedule for its board meeting next week where it will vote to put in place revamped policies to accommodate the passage of two bills and its new open division for the playoffs.

Former Ponte Vedra High School standout and current Michigan Wolverines offensive lineman Jake Guarnera returned home Saturday to host his first youth football camp at Ponte Vedra High School.

High school athletes from across Northeast Florida packed into Planet Fitness Lakewood for the chance to meet Jaguars two-way star Travis Hunter. The event helped kick off Planet Fitness’ sixth annual Summer Pass Program, which allows teens ages 14 to 19 to workout for free from June 1 through August 31.

Now that Senate Bill 538 has been signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a new set of questions begins. What happens next?

The Columbia softball team has a state championship more than a decade in the making.

Raines and Nease squared off in a spring football game at Parker High School on May 22.

Beachside hosted Creekside and Clay in a spring football jamboree on Wednesday, May 20.

St. Augustine traveled to Bishop Kenny for a spring football game on Wednesday night. News4JAX had photographer Quan Nguyen capture the game in this photo gallery.

Columbia walked it off in memorable fashion to beat Seminoles 6-5 to advance to Saturday’s 4A State Championship.

The University Christian softball team is the best in the state again.

Nearly 11 years to the day that the Conquerors won their only championship, they added title No. 2 with an 8-4 win over True North in the Class 2A title game in Fort Myers on Tuesday night.

University Christian barreled into the softball state championship game with a wire-to-wire blowout in the Class 1A state semifinals on Tuesday.

The longest tenured head coach in the area, Clay High softball coach Matt Lewis said Monday afternoon that this season was his last. The Blue Devils won back-to-back district championships, something Lewis said was important to him and the program. He ends his career with 551 wins and a state title.

University of Florida sophomore hurler Aidan King added to his sterling resume by earning SEC Pitcher of the Year honors on Monday afternoon.

The prospect-laden Conquerors pulled away with a four-run fourth inning to beat Lakeland Christian 7-2 in the Class 2A state semifinals on Monday morning in Fort Myers.

While hockey continues to grow in the Sunshine State, one young player from St. Johns County is already making a name for herself on the ice. At just 12 years old, Rory Mayer is piling up championships and helping lead the next generation of girls hockey in Jacksonville.

The St. Johns Country Day baseball team is the best in the state again. The Spartans did the bulk of their damage in the third inning and used an elite performance from Brayden Harris to beat Orangewood Christian 6-2 to win the Class 1A state championship on Saturday in Fort Myers.

Bolles battled until the finish but ended its first flag football season with a tough loss in the state semifinals on Friday.

Mandarin and Trinity Christian wrapped up their spring practices with a season-ending spring game on Thursday, May 15. Click through the images to check out action from the game.

The best flag football season in Tocoi Creek history ended on Friday afternoon.

Columbia and University Christian are headed to the high school softball state semifinals.

Union County pulled off a miraculous rally in the final two innings, walking off with its first baseball state championship in more than a decade in unforgettable fashion.

Oakleaf High School announced James Collins as its new boys basketball head coach on Wednesday night, a huge move for the program as it looks to replace Jason Price on the sidelines.

St. Johns Country Day is headed back to the baseball state championship game.

The Fletcher beach volleyball team capped the perfect season with a historic state championship on Saturday.

Clay, St. Johns Country Day, Trinity Christian and Union County are headed to the baseball state semifinals.

The Creekside girls brought the curtain down on the high school state track and field championships on a rainy Saturday at UNF, winning their first team title to wrap the Class 4A meet.

Hours after their boys team won their second championship in program history, the Ponte Vedra girls put an exclamation point on an unforgettable season with a 13-7 win over Oviedo to win the Class 2A championship in Naples.

The Sharks held off St. Thomas Aquinas in a 9-8 thriller to win the Class 2A state championship in Naples on Saturday. It’s just the second time an area boys team has brought him a title. Ponte Vedra also won in 2019.

Three more area athletes added championships on the third day of the state meet at UNF’s Hodges Stadium on Friday.

The high school baseball playoffs are headed to the third round with one huge rematch on deck.

The Ponte Vedra girls lacrosse team stormed into the state championship game with a semifinal blowout on Friday night.

The Episcopal girls lacrosse team battled for three quarters before coming up short in the Class 1A state semifinals on Friday in Vero Beach.

Area athletes brought home 10 championships, including a pair of sprinting wins by Palatka’s Kedric Wright Jr. and team titles from the Raines boys and Bolles girls on a banner afternoon at the Class 2A meet.

Bolles and Tocoi Creek are the last two area flag football teams still standing.

The Ponte Vedra boys lacrosse team is headed back to the state championship game.

Palm Beach Benjamin led from start to finish, topping the Bulldogs 12-4 in the Class 1A state semifinals in Vero Beach. Bolles entered the game 23-0 but couldn’t slow down Benjamin.

The high school softball playoffs opened on Wednesday night with nine area teams moving on to next week’s second round and another three advancing on Thursday night.

Seven individual athletes brought home titles in the Class 1A meet, three of those by Providence boys runners to kick off four days of championship track.

Bolles, Paxon, Ponte Vedra and Tocoi Creek all won second-round playoff games on Monday night and will play for berths in the state semifinals on Thursday.

The high school baseball playoffs are headed to the third round with one huge rematch on deck.

Providence's Marvin Christie is the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX boys basketball player of the year.

The high school softball playoff field is set.

Bishop Kenny's Kathleen Crawley is the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX girls basketball player of the year.

The Nease girls tennis team went back to back in its state championship quest, sweeping Jensen Beach in the title match on Thursday.

Mandarin's Robert Calazans is the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX boys soccer player of the year.

Bishop Kenny's Stella Jones leads the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX girls soccer team.

Kailani Barrientos of Oakleaf is the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX girls wrestler of the year.

St. Johns Country Day seventh grader Bryce Fiore is Varsity 4 All-News4JAX boys wrestler of the year.

The high school baseball playoffs are off and rolling.

The high school flag football playoff field is set with two area teams earning No. 1 seeds for the postseason.

Sandalwood High School graduate Jadon Canady became the first local player off the board on the final day of the NFL draft, going to the Chiefs in the fourth round on Saturday.

Carson Beck is headed to the Arizona Cardinals as the first pick of the third round of the NFL draft on Friday night.

The NFL draft spans three days this week and quite a few locals are hoping to hear their names called.

The Varsity 4 News4JAX softball Super 6 rankings will be published Thursday through the end of the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through April 22.

Four area teams (Creekside in Region 1-7A, Trinity Christian in 1-2A, St. Johns Country Day in 1-A and Union County in 3-R) earned No. 1 seeds in their regions as the high school baseball playoffs get underway this week.

Bolles announced the hiring of Mike Pickett on Friday afternoon as the girls soccer program’s new head coach.

The Varsity 4 News4JAX softball Super 6 rankings will be published Thursday through the end of the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through April 15.

The final national letter of intent signing period of the 2025-26 school year is here, and athletes have begun to put pen to paper and make their college choices.

The Varsity 4 News4JAX flag football Super 6 rankings will be published Wednesday through the end of the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through April 14.

Chris Payton-Jones, a former football star at Sandalwood High School who went on to play professionally and later returned to Jacksonville to become a mentor and successful content creator, has passed away in an auto accident. Jones was 30 years old.

The Varsity 4 Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published on Fridays during the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through April 9.

The Varsity 4 News4JAX softball Super 6 rankings will be published Thursday through the end of the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through April 8.

The Varsity 4 News4JAX flag football Super 6 rankings will be published Wednesday through the end of the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through April 7.

The Varsity 4 Super 6 high school baseball rankings will be published on Fridays during the regular season with the exception of a week off for spring break. Records are through April 2.