A cross country runner for Windermere Prep's middle school team, Zavien Williams took the top spot at the Jim Ryun Season Opener in Lakeland.

Ocoee High grad Jarred Neal is the 2016 Cy Young Award winner.

Recently Xavier Norfleet’s basketball team, The Heat, won the fourth- and fifth-grade championship at the Dr. P. Phillips YMCA, with Xavier helping to lead the way to victory.

Oakland resident Luke Rosser, 14, placed first in the boys 14-year-old division at the USA Triathlon Youth and Junior Nationals July 31 in Ohio. The combined time for Rosser’s 200-meter swim, 10-kilometer bike ride and 2K run was 32 minutes, 8 seconds.

Cam Montgomery, a Windermere resident and Olympia High School graduate, spent the summer in Alaska playing baseball for the Mat-Su Miners in the Alaska Baseball League. While he was there, he won a home-run derby.

Andre Leveque placed second at the American Junior Golf Association’s EaglesDream Golf Academy Junior Open in Lake Mary.

Caitlyn Naginey took her baseball skills to San Francisco, pitching in the championship game of the Baseball for All National Girls Tournament.