On Monday, Sept. 22, The FHSAA will discuss and vote to potentially remove the sport of Water Polo from high school sanctioned sports events around the state of Florida. Just when the sport was beginning to catch on in Central Florida, including at Lake Minneola High School where the school had its first season, now the FHSAA wants to remove it after the current season, effectively ending its status as a sanctioned competition statewide.

If approved, the move would wipe away years of work by students, parents, and coaches who have built programs across Florida, including Lake County, which celebrated the launch of its first-ever high school water polo team last year. The program’s second season is already underway, but it may also be its last.

(Lake Minneola High School became the first

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