There is an excitement in the air in Lake County as the 2025 football season rolls in and for good reason. Lake County football is having a resurgence.

In the past 10 years, every FHSAA team in Lake County has hit rock bottom at some point, some more recent than others. Of those eight Lake high schools, there have only been 26 winning seasons put together by all of them since 2015. That’s 26 out of a possibility of 80. A winning percentage of .32 — or should we call it losing percentage? That will get a lot of coaches fired, and it did.

Mount Dora Christian, which is in the Sunshine State Athletic Association , is the one outlier as a member of the Sunshine State Athletic Association. The Bulldogs, who have been coached by Kolby Tackett for five of the past seven seasons, have not had

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