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Local slugger drafted The Philadelphia Phillies selected Adam Haseley in the MLB Draft. 11.

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YOUR TOWN EAT LESS CHICKEN? Attention, Chick-fil-A fans: The Winter Garden Village location, 3166 Daniels Road, will be closing for remodeling Friday, June 16.

According to the location’s Facebook page, the restaurant will close at 2 p.m. Friday and will not reopen until mid-July.

CHURCH STARTS SUPPORT GROUP St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 4851 S. Apopka-Vineland Road has a new cancer support group for cancer fighters, survivors, caregivers and spouses/partners. All faiths are welcome.

The next meeting is from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 13, in Building A, Room 201.

For more information, email care@st.lukes.org or call 407-876-4991, Ext. 262.

Rasa Asian Street Food recreates the Asian street-food style in the comfort of a sit-down restaurant.

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Canine flu spreads to West Orange

DR. PHILLIPS If you’re a foodie who frequents Restaurant Row, Rasa Asian Street Food just might be your next stop.

The Asian fusion restaurant, located in Plaza Venezia off Sand Lake Road in Dr. Phillips, opened in March next to its sister restaurant, Saffron Indian Cuisine.

A recent outbreak of the canine influenza virus has reached parts of north and Central Florida, including West Orange.

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DANIELLE HENDRIX STAFF WRITER ORANGE COUNTY With the recent outbreak of canine influenza in central and north Florida, UF College of Veterinary Medicine officials and local veterinarians are advising pet owners to stay alert.

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Jerry Wright’s parents, Maria and Fred, helped complete their son’s portrait last weekend.

New studio opens in Horizon West.

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Among the 49 Pulse victims honored in the Orlando Traveling Memorial project is Jerry Wright, a Miami native who lived in Horizon West.

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death in children under 5. The British Swim School will teach the steps necessary to ensure water activities are safe. Learn about adult supervision, teaching kids to swim, responding in an emergency and preventing accidental drowning. Visit britishswimschool.com.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 15, in Building A, Room 201, at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 4851 S. ApopkaVineland Road, Orlando. This support group is for cancer fighters, survivors, caregivers and spouses and partners.

Meetings include a time of sharing, spiritual and emotional support, as well as a different topic each month related to the key challenges associated with cancer. June’s topic is Dealing with the Emotional Challenges of a Cancer Diagnosis. Email care@st.lukes.org or call (407) 876-4991, Ext. 262.

FRIDAY, JUNE 16

BUCKY & GIGI PRESENT ONE SMILE AT A TIME 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 16, at the Southwest Library, 7255 Della Drive, Orlando. Be part of the smiling, giggling and flat-out belly laughter when you watch Bucky and Gigi transform from regular construction workers to comedians extraordinaire. Ages 6 to 12. Seating is limited. Registration recommended. For more information, call (407) 835-7323.

CHILDREN’S WATER SAFETY 6 p.m. Thursday, June 15, at the Windermere Library, 530 Main St. Water safety is essential as drowning is the leading cause of

SATURDAY, JUNE 17

AMAZING ANIMALS: “SEA TO YOU” 11 a.m. Saturday, June 17, at the Tibet-Butler Preserve, 8777 County Road 535, Orlando. Celebrate World Ocean Day with Amazing Animals Inc. and its coral reef touch tank. All ages; limit 50. Free. (407) 254-1940.

CELEBRATE SUMMER WITH MIX 105.1 11 a.m. Saturday, June 17, at the Windermere Library, 530 Main St. Radio station MIX105.1 takes the party to the library this summer with fun, interactive events. Take the whole family for music, games, prizes and more. Ages 6 to 12. (407) 835-7323.

CRUZ N CAR SHOW 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 17, in downtown Winter Garden.

Check out the dozens of classic cars that will line West Plant Street. WJBJ’s Cruisin’ with the Classics will broadcast from the car show. (407) 656-4111.

WILDLIFE WONDERLAND CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 17, at Nehrling Gardens, 2267 Hempel Ave., Gotha. Learn about the gardens’ animals and the ecological importance of species like bobcats, sandhill cranes, otters, hawks, snakes and woodpeckers. Take an adventure through Nehrling Gardens to look for wildlife and participate in hands-on activities that help children connect with nature. Space is limited.

Register at nehrlinggardens. org/event/wildlife-wonderlandchildrens-workshop. Kassy Holmes, kassy.holmes@nehrlinggardens.org.

MONDAY, JUNE 19

MR. HARLEY’S KIDS CONCERT 2 p.m. Monday, June 19, at the Southwest Library, 7255 Della Drive, Orlando. Dance along to rockin’ tunes, from classic children’s songs to Mr. Harley originals. Ages 6 to 12. Seating is limited. Registration recommended. For more information, call (407) 835-7323.

TUESDAY, JUNE 20

MR. TIM THE COMEDY MAGICIAN 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 21, at the Windermere Library, 530 Main St. Mr. Tim is a bumbling magician whose magic never seems to go as planned. Can you help him make the day magical? Ages 6 to 12. For more information, call (407) 8357323.

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rom a young age, 18-year-old Windermere resident Amber Yang knew two things: She loved science and space, and she wanted to compete in Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair one day.

The week of May 14, she accomplished her goal — and then some.

She was a top-three finalist, winning the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of $50,000.

And she had some tough competition. The Intel ISEF event — often called “the Super Bowl of science fairs” — was held this year in Los Angeles. It is only open to competitors who have won first place at a regional or state science fair. This year’s gathering showcased about 1,800 competitors from more than 80 countries, competing in 22 scientific categories.

The recent Trinity Preparatory School graduate only started

“It’s competing with some of the brightest minds in the world, and I was speechless.”

— Amber Yang

competing in science fairs last year but has been working on her Intel ISEF project for about three years now. Titled “MultiOrbit Space Debris Cloud Tracking Using Iterative Closest Points Registration with Machine Learning,” her project involves what she refers to as “space junk.”

“I created a computer system based off of machine learning and artificial intelligence, capable of tracking and predicting future locations of space junk,” Yang said. “(Space junk is) basically any type of defunct satellites or broken parts of spacecraft floating around, and there’s so much floating around in space now that it poses dangers to the International Space Station, operating satellites and even astronauts who are up there in space.”

The current method of tracking space debris, Yang said, relies on a mathematical and static model, which has to be constantly and manually adjusted whenever the space debris orbit changes.

The problem is the debris’ orbit changes all the time because of factors such as solar gravity, wind or radiation.

“All these things can cause the orbit to change unpredictably, and that becomes very cumbersome over time to adjust this model,” Yang said. “I wanted to

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update and essentially be able to track the approaching debris.”

Yang began thinking about astrophysics in 2007, when China launched an anti-satellite missile test that destroyed one of its weather satellites. This was the largest recorded creation of space debris in history, with more than 2,000 pieces of trackable-size debris and up to 150,000 particles.

Because the United States was concerned about the welfare of its spacecraft and satellites. Yang became intrigued with the issue.

She began her project a few years later by doing extensive research.

She spent an entire summer and winter break poring over it, sometimes spending up to 14 hours per day working on it.

And this May, her hours of hard work officially paid off. She will be putting the prize money she earned toward her tuition at Stanford University this fall, where she wants to major in physics with a concentration in astrophysics.

Eventually, she might pursue a doctoral degree in physics.

“I completely did not expect this; it’s been an insane ride,” she said of the Intel ISEF competition. “It’s competing with some of the brightest minds in the world, and I was speechless.

It seemed like the perfect end to my science-fair career, definitely a great affirmation for me that all of the work I put in actually mattered, that people cared about it and a lot of scientists in the field thought it was a great research topic.”

Going forward, she will continue her passion for astrophysics and is currently thinking of better ways to package her creation so she can patent it or license it out to other companies for public use.

“Astrophysics is an amazing field, because it’s concerned with how the universe formed in the first place,” she said. “I really feel like these fields (physics, astrophysics) caught my attention because I can give back to humanity and help solve questions that are unanswered.”

Trinity Prep graduate and Windermere resident Amber Yang won the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of $50,000 this year.

Windermere resident Amber Yang has figured out how to keep spacecraft safe from debris. Her project won $50,000 at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

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think of a method that could learn for itself and how the orbits were changing.”

Her system uses artificial neural networks, which essentially operate the same way as the human brain. The network takes in data and learns and recognizes patterns — in this case, it learns how much the orbit changes over time and is able to update itself. The predictions are useful because they allow scientists to see where space debris is headed so they have time to move important spacecraft — such as the ISS — and satellites out of its way to avoid destruction.

“It takes its mistakes and learns and corrects its prediction,” she said. “I wanted to do something that could learn and constantly

Contact Danielle Hendrix at dhendrix@orangeobserver.com.

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Amber Yang, left, said she will continuing pursuing her passion for astrophysics.

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In Malaysia, the word “rasa” means flavor — the perfect name for a restaurant aiming to incorporate the flavors of Southwest Asia.

Rasa is a sit-down restaurant, but all food is served Asian streetfood style. It might be cooked in a full indoor kitchen, but Rasa’s owners want their food to be filled with the tastes found in the food that is sold in street carts in the open Malaysian air.

Even the portion sizes mimic those of what you would find walking through the Malaysian streets. But it’s not just Malaysian cuisine. Rasa’s menu also incorporates items from Singapore, China, Japan and India.

“What we try to incorporate in our menu is a wide variety of Southwest Asian food,” Shrestha said. “I think the experience in Rasa is more friendly-casual. Our staff is very friendly, they know about the menu and the food we serve is — I think — the very best in Orlando. If you come with a group of five and each person wanted to

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According to UF veterinary officials, more than one dozen cases of canine influenza A virus, also known as H3N2, were confirmed as of May 31. Dogs testing positive for the virus were either at a dog show in Perry, Georgia or DeLand, Florida, or were exposed to dogs present at the shows.

The canine flu is a very contagious influenza virus that first

emerged in the United States in 2015 and has since spread to more than 30 states. It also has infected cats, but there is no evidence that it can infect people, UF veterinary officials said.

Canine flu symptoms are similar to that of the typical human flu — sneezing, nasal discharge, prolonged and frequent coughing, fever, decreased appetite and lethargy. It differs from kennel cough in that, if left untreated, the dog can develop pneumonia and require hospitalization.

West Orange Veterinary Hospital officials said the hospital’s first and only confirmed case occurred right after Memorial Day weekend, although they have multiple suspicious cases. Some pets came home sick after being boarded.

To confirm presence of the virus, veterinarians have to swab a dog’s nose and throat. If the flu virus is present, the dog must be quarantined for four weeks.

“Even if they’re not symptomatic, if you know your dog was potentially exposed, keep them quarantined,” said Taylor Propst, a veterinary technician and hospital administrator for WOVH. “They’re contagious for up to 21 days. Twenty percent of infected dogs will never show any symptoms, and one sneeze can (project) the virus up to 20 feet.”

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Served with Malaysian flaky flatbread, signature Rasa curry sauce and chives. n Singapore Street Noodles — Stir-fried curried rice noodles, sometimes served with shrimp, pork and vegetables. Served at Rasa with curry-based Vermicelli noodles. n Indonesian Nasi Goreng — A fried rice-based meal. Served at Rasa as an Indonesian breakfast, with fried rice and an egg.

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From pad thai, Singapore street noodles and curries to roti canai, stir-fried vegetables, dim sum and beyond, Rasa has two comprehensive menus — one for lunch and another for dinner. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, while dinner is served from 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Rasa also recently introduced a weekend buffet. On Saturdays and Sundays, guests can dine buffetstyle for $12.95. And for lunch, weekday specials begin at $9.95 for a main dish with an appetizer and dessert.

Current discounts include 50% off draft beers on Tuesdays with presentation of a valid student ID, Shrestha said, as well as 10% off for mentioning this article.

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Vine of life WINDERMERE No matter how busy

life got, Jerald Wright always made time to stop in for the occasional glass of wine with his 80-year-old neighbor at Oasis Cove.

It was his way of checking up on her and making sure she was doing all right, and he loved the company. It’s just the kind of person Jerry was, his mother said.

His roommate knew how much those visits meant to both Jerry and their neighbor. Now, one year after Jerry’s death, he is the one who visits her and chats over a glass of wine.

Jerry, a Horizon West resident, was one of the 49 people killed at Pulse nightclub in downtown Orlando on June 12, 2016. He was 31 years old.

A Disney cast member who worked at Magic Kingdom, Jerry had gotten off of work late that night when he decided to meet up with friends at Pulse. His family members in Miami didn’t know he had gone out until early that morning, when they heard of the shooting and couldn’t locate him. They immediately drove to

ABOUT ORLANDO TRAVELING MEMORIAL The Orlando Traveling Memorial is a community project to commemorate the 49 people who died in the June 12, 2016, Pulse nightclub shooting. The mural will first be installed in front of the Sam Flax Store in downtown Orlando and painted by local artists, the victims’ families, survivors, first responders and others who wish to participate.

For more information on the project, how to get involved or how to donate and become a sponsor, visit orlandotravelingmemorial. com.

Orlando, dropping by Pulse in their quest for answers.

In the parking lot, right near the entrance, was Jerry’s car.

TRAVELING MEMORIAL

It has been a year of grieving, remembering and healing for the Wright family and for the families of 48 other victims.

But a project 11 months in the making promises to memorialize the victims and honor the survivors, law-enforcement officials, first-responders, medical teams and city officials who responded that night.

Winter Park artist Colleen Ardaman originally was asked to paint a mural on a building as a tribute to the Pulse victims, but she didn’t want to take the risk of it being painted over in the future.

“Paint fades, and it would be covered up,” Ardaman said. “I thought, ‘This is the biggest massacre in (modern) U.S. history, and 49 people died.’ Not only did it affect the Pulse community, it affected Orlando, it affected Florida, the United States and the world. I thought, ‘I need to make this bigger than just a painting on a building.’”

With the help of people such as Paint the Trail artist Jeff Sonksen, she came up with the idea for the Orlando Traveling Memorial, a movable wall of art that will travel the country and engage the victims’ families, survivors and visitors nationwide. The concept includes the theme, “From Adversity Springs Seeds of Greatness.”

When complete, the project will be a 125-foot-long, 10-foot-tall aluminum wall.

The artwork depicts a “vine of life,” along which portraits of each of the 49 victims will be displayed. The thorns on the vine represent the pain their families have endured, and handprints of the survivors will be situated in circles among the portraits.

As the vine stretches on, a spirit of hope and restoration comes into the picture, releasing winged seed pods that represent the spirits of the victims, some of which

Photos by Danielle Hendrix

Artists and city leaders helped the Wright family come together to paint a portrait of Jerry Wright. From left: Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn, Joseph Wright, Judy Swor, Maria Wright, Fred Wright, Jerry Bethel-Wright, Aida Wright, Javon Bethel, Colleen Ardaman and Jeff Sonksen.

come back to plant themselves and restore life and growth. At the end of the wall will be a segment with handprints of police officers, surgeons, first-responders, city officials and more.

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But the portraits won’t be painted by the artists themselves — they’re all painted by the families of the victims. There are 49 aluminum panels on which Sonksen has hand-drawn a “paint-bynumber” portrait of each victim for the families to fill in. He projected each image — altered to create layers of contouring — onto its respective aluminum panel and hand-traced it, marking the spots in which each shade of paint was to go. Eventually, the portraits will be photographed and installed on the wall.

“I wanted art that was so beautiful, captivating, graphically grabbing and easy to read as you drive by,” Ardaman said. “I thought, ‘I’m an artist, I can paint all the portraits,’ but then I thought, here’s a chance to let the families have an opportunity to heal. We’re going to let the people who need to heal paint them.”

It’s been a challenge finding the 49 families, Ardaman said, but seeing the families who have come forward to paint thus far has been rewarding.

“We had families come in, and

it was what we were hoping for but didn’t know if it would take place,” she said. “They first had an initial heart-wrenching (glance), but they sit around and talk, tell stories, they’re laughing, they’re so concentrated on where the next paint stroke goes that it gets them into a whole other zone. At the end, they look back and they go, ‘Oh my gosh, there’s my loved one.’ It’s so healing and so special.”

The entire project will cost about $250,000, and the fundraiser to bring it to life is ongoing. Ardaman hopes to be able to add near-field technology, which will encourage visitors to the wall to interact through their phones.

The technology would allow for the wall to “come alive,” so visitors could hear stories from survivors, songs, poems and more.

“We just want to help, we’re on a mission to support something much greater than ourselves,” Ardaman said. “It’s about how we respond to tragedy. This memorial gives them (families and survivors) a chance to come together.”

REMEMBERING JERRY

After Jerry’s death, his neighbors at Oasis Cove displayed a massive banner memorializing him. Along with others Jerry knew, they reached out to his mom, Maria, and the rest of the family with stories of Jerry’s kindness to them.

Many were strangers to her,

but Jerry was the type of person to smile, say hello and chat with strangers, turning them into friends.

“He was a wonderful, sweet and loving person, one of those people that if you’d met him in first grade you were still in touch with him because he would never let the connections he made disappear,” Maria said. “I used to call him ‘Mr. Facebook,’ because he was always staying connected to the people in his life. He didn’t care if you were young or old or what. The connections he had with people were precious to him. There’s been an outpouring of love I’ve received from people I didn’t even know but that knew him.”

The Miami native attended Florida International University and earned a degree in hospitality management. He came to Orlando in 2012 to work for Universal Studios and Walt Disney World. He had a co-worker who got anxious in busy crowds, Maria said, so any time it was too busy at work, he would go and stand with her, because he knew it would calm her. He’d be the one to offer a ride or pick up a friend from the airport — all because he derived joy from doing so.

It’s all why she still has faith in humanity, she said.

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Jerry’s death when Aida found out she was pregnant. Boy or girl, she said, her child’s name was going to be Jerry. And that afternoon, he napped soundly in his stroller as his family finished the black-andwhite portrait of his Uncle Jerry.

The painting looked just like the elder Jerry, the Wrights said, as they hovered over it with their phones, snapping photos of what will become a precious and integral piece of artwork with a story.

“When we first started it was like, ‘How is this going to work?’”

Maria said. “Now that it’s finished, it’s incredible, it’s beautiful. It’s a wonderful thing.”

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filled with varying shades of gray.

Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn offered the space a few weeks ago to Ardaman, who was looking for places in which to accommodate various families as they painted.

It turned out to be just down the road from where Jerry had lived.

“This is something that’s going to affect Orlando forever,” Bruhn said. “I don’t think that we will ever forget — this is Orlando’s own 9/11 tragedy. This is something that we have to make sure we never forget. Being able to meet the families and hear the stories of their loved ones (is incredible).

For me it’s about what I and fellow mayors can do to help the families and help them bring closure.”

And despite the overwhelming tragedy that brought everyone in the room together — Jerry’s parents, brother and sister, aunt, nephew and future brother-inlaw among them — there were more smiles than tears.

“I thought it was going to be a bunch of crying, the most devastating experience for me to witness, and it wasn’t like that,” Sonksen said of meeting other families. “We sat around, Mom looks at the painting she’s doing and just smiled and said, ‘It looks just like him.’ I saw more smiles from people than I did anything else.”

Jerry’s older brother and younger sister, Joseph and Aida, bantered and joked with each other as they took turns filling in the blank spaces. His father, Fred, kept up with the multiple conversations in the room as he focused on the task at hand. Mom Maria and aunt Judy Swor took turns painting and tending to Aida’s and fiance Javon’s 3-month-old son, Jerry.

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Jerry happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time the night of the Pulse attack. It could have been anybody, Maria said, and it drove home the belief that we are living in an increasingly dangerous world. Her simple message: We need to start with ourselves if we’re going to stop hatred.

“What killed my son was hate, and hate getting armed is going to always create death,” Maria said.

“So instead of feeding that hate, we need to find a way to stop it, and we need to start with ourselves. When we were coming up here to find out whether Jerry was hurt, affected — at that point we wouldn’t even consider the possibility that he could be dead — I remember telling myself, ‘I’m not going to let hate go into my heart.’ That’s not who my son is, that’s not who we are, and God has helped me keep that.”

She and Jerry’s father, Fred, have since dedicated themselves to improve gun laws to prevent terrorists from having access to firearms.

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For 13 months, Leslie Jarvis has anxiously waited for the grand opening of her new dance studio.

And the wait is finally over.

On Monday, June 12, Jarvis and her staff celebrated the grand opening of Peaches Dance and Music.

“It’s a dream come true to have this magical studio in such a magical city,” Jarvis said.

Prior to opening Peaches Dance and Music, located off Reams Road in Horizon West, Jarvis owned and operated a dance studio in the Miami area for nearly 30 years.

“I had a database of more than 30,000 kids when I left that studio,” she said.

Her decision to close her Miami studio and move to the Orlando area was tied to her two son — one enrolled at the University of Central Florida and the other expressed his desire to join the magnet program at Dr. Phillips High School.

“It was a very, very difficult thing to do — sell my studio,” Jarvis said. “But I’m so glad I did because I’m loving it here. I’ve always loved Orlando, and I’ve always thought that it’s a magical city.”

After relocating to West Orange, Jarvis knew it was only a matter of time before she opened another dance studio.

“This has been my life’s work,” she said. “I’ve been dancing my entire life.”

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“We have a lot going on here musically,” said Rita Kay, music director at Peaches. “We have those three rooms, and I want them full from day to night.”

Students can participate in classes, summer camps, intensive dance programs and even celebrate their birthdays at the studio.

So far, the studio already has more than 100 students enrolled.

“I did not expect to get so many phone calls and inquiries about this studio,” Jarvis said.

With the doors finally open and students attending daily classes, Jarvis said she hopes her new sutdio will find just as much success as her previous one in Miami.

“I’m excited for it to get going,” she said. “It feels natural to me. It feels like it’s supposed to be.”

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“I just kept driving around in circles to see if anything would pop up,” she said. “Then I saw a sign go up (on Reams Road).”

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Local athletes rack up frequentflier miles during summer months Each summer, high-school athletes from across the spectrum of sports hop into planes, trains and automobiles to show what they can do at destinations across the country.

STEVEN RYZEWSKI SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

From August to May, high-school athletes hop on buses to play crosstown rivals.

In June and July, those with aspirations of playing their respective sport in college trade in the school buses and crosstown rivals for airplanes and and elite competition from around the nation.

Whether it is through a club

or travel team or as an individual through camps and other avenues, high-school athletes from throughout Southwest Orange County recognize the value of the summer as a chance to get outside of Florida and show college scouts what they can do.

“It gives them that opportunity to compare themselves to kids from the rest of the country — which is pretty much realistically what they’re competing with for

a scholarship,” said Jesse Marlo, head baseball coach for West Orange High during the varsity season and one of the founders of the Power Baseball travel organization.

Unlike the old days of sitting in the stands for high-school games, camps and high-profile travel tournaments provide an easy and accessible way for college scouts to observe a high volume of prospective athletes at once.

That reality, alone, makes competing on travel circuits necessary. For certain sports, though, getting out of Florida has a secondary purpose. In a sport such as lacrosse, which is most popular in the Northeast, it is important for would-be elite players from Florida to go to where the game is gospel and show what they can do.

“I would say that if you’re interested in playing lacrosse in college, it is a must that you compete out of state,” said Ann Bomleny, the lead coach and director for Storm SEE COAST PAGE 13

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Former Olympia High baseball star Nick Gordon was named the Player of the Month for the Southern League (DoubleA) last week. The shortstop for the Chattanooga Lookouts compiled 17 extrabase hits — including three triples and three homers — during the month of May, among other highlights.

Gordon is listed as the top prospect for the Minnesota Twins at MLB.com.

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Ocoee High football coach Jason Boltus came out of retirement from the Arena Football League to suit up for the Jacksonville Sharks in a 66-18 victory June 10.

Boltus, who had retired from the Tampa Bay Storm last season, tossed two touchdowns in the victory.

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Adam Haseley has been a standout outfielder and pitcher for the Virginia Cavaliers during his collegiate career, but is expected to focus on being a position player in the pros.

The Philadelphia Phillies drafted Windermere’s Adam Haseley, an alumnus of The First Academy, with the eighth overall pick of the 2017 Major League Baseball FirstYear Player Draft.

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he Philadelphia Phillies selected Adam Haseley, a Windermere native and alumni of The First Academy, with the eighth pick of the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft Monday, June 12.

Haseley is a junior outfielder and pitcher for the Virginia Cavaliers, though he is expected to focus on being a position player in the pros.

TFA head coach Scott Grove’s first season with the Royals was Haseley’s senior season. Grove recalls scouts suggesting they

would take Haseley as high as the first round then, but Haseley and his family made it clear he was intent on beginning his career in college.

Although Grove coached Haseley for just one season, he left quite an impression.

“He’s just a born leader — he’s a quiet leader that leads by example,” Grove said. “You could just tell that he had special talent.”

Haseley appears to have made the correct choice in attending college. In addition to ultimately improving his draft stock to the eighth overall pic — a slot Baseball America estimates will command a signing bonus of $4,780,400 — Haseley also got to be part of a

national championship team as a freshman.

In fact, Haseley started Game Two of the 2015 College World Series Championship Series, pitching five strong innings in the Cavaliers’ 3-0 win over Vanderbilt, and he also had a team-best .364 batting average in the threegame series.

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It’s been an exciting week for two local alumni playing baseball for the Florida Gators.

First, ahead of the Gators’ Super Regional matchup with Wake Forest, Olympia alum Michael Byrne was named one of five finalists for the 13th annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award. Then, in the first game of that Super Regional, former Dr. Phillips High star Ryan Larson hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th inning to give the Gators the victory.

After Wake Forest took the second game, Florida won the third game to advance to this week’s College World Series.

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Recently graduated CFCA basketball player Zen Goodridge announced last week his commitment to play his college basketball at Rend Lake College in Illinois. As a senior forward for the Eagles (24-6) last season, Goodridge averaged 6.9 points per game and 7.7 rebounds per game.

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Winter Garden native Parker Boudreaux, a sophomore offensive lineman for Notre Dame, announced his intent to transfer last week and was granted a transfer release.

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Windermere, but now it’s closed.

What is a course you would like to play someday?

I would play Oakmont (Country Club), in Pittsburgh. My brother went there, and he said it was good course and that’s where the pros play sometimes.

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What’s your favorite subject in school?

History.

Besides golf, what are you looking forward to the most about the summer?

I’m looking forward to playing the piano. I’ve been playing for one year.

Teams from Windermere Little League took home the top spot in two of the four Florida Little League District 14 Top Team tournaments that took place earlier this month.

The Phillies won the Majors (ages 11-12) division, and the Nationals won the Juniors (ages 13-14) division.

The Phillies went 11-2-2 in the regular season, before adding three wins during Top Team.

“They listen — they were a team that was focused and took

Who is your favorite superhero?

Batman, because he’s in the night, and he fights really well. He’s a good hider.

Who is a professional golfer you admire ?

Rory McIlroy. He’s a good player and he’s confident.

What is the best advice your coach, Michael McMillan, has given you?

For my swing, he gave me some tips to help me remember to keep my head down and have a good swing.

Who’s your favorite Batman villain?

Bane.

What’s your non-golf dream job?

A pianist — I’d play the piano, be good at it and play music for everybody.

advice very well,” Phillies manager Ron Berman said.

Meanwhile, the Nationals, managed by Bob Cole, went 14-3-1 in the regular season before also going 3-0 in Top Team. In the championship, the Nationals defeated a team that had defeated them twice before.

“The kids said, ‘That’s not going to happen again.’ They were not going to lose,” Cole said.

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led the ACC in batting average (.390) and on-base percentage (.491) while also compiling a 7-1 record and a 3.58 ERA on the mound. He is a Baseball America First-Team All-American in the outfield, a finalist for the Olerud Award and was named to the watch list for National Pitcher of the Year.

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In addition to his accomplishments at TFA, Haseley was a member of Team USA Baseball’s U14 National Team in 2010 and its U18 National Team in 2013 that won a world championship.

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Haseley was not the only ballplayer with local roots who heard his name called in the first round.

After a stellar senior season with the West Orange Warriors, shortstop Chris Seise was taken No. 29 by the Texas Rangers — marking consecutive years that the Rangers have selected an infielder from the Warriors (Texas drafted third baseman Kole Enright in the third round of last year’s draft).

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As for the coaches themselves, although there is obviously much planning that goes into the trips, it also can be a nice getaway.

“It’s fun — it’s enjoyable,” Ramirez said. “We’ve been very lucky with great kids, and some of the parents do travel with us.

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In the next few weeks, girls and teams from Storm Select will be competing at various stops in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Leo Ramirez — the head water polo coach at Dr. Phillips High — is taking his 16-under YCF Water Polo team to the Los Angeles area for a similar reason. Ramirez’s current team, which features athletes from Dr. Phillips, West Orange, Bishop Moore and Lake Mary, is going to the place where the competition is stiffest.

“Especially California, it’s the mecca of water polo in the United States,” Ramirez explained.

Athletes often travel solo, as well. Olympia High senior Joe Milton, a quarterback for the Titans football team that is committed to Michigan for college, was in Southern California last weekend as part of the Elite 11 quarterback competition.

Tanner Ingle, a defensive back for the Dr. Phillips football team that has scholarship offers from dozens of college programs, has been traveling around the country both for college visits and camps.

This weekend, for instance, Tanner and his family will visit Boston, where he will get a chance to check out Harvard and Boston College. Recently, Ingle was in South Carolina on the campus of Clemson for a camp where he got to show his stuff against other high-profile recruits.

“It’s exciting. (There is) always good competition,” Ingle said.

In addition to helping to facilitate a path to a college career, traveling during the summer can serve as a preview of a college career where teams and athletes are often flying around the country for road games.

“Just the whole idea that we’re going there for a reason and to try and keep it businesslike (is valuable),” Ramirez said. “That will get them ready for college, because on a college trip, that’s what it’s all about.”

Many travel coaches also make a point to encourage the athletes and their families to enjoy their trips and the destinations.

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