TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The Florida High boys basketball program is now the proprietor of two state championships, one coming in 1963 and the second coming final week when the Seminoles received the Class 3A state title. That second title was celebrated Wednesday, and despite the fact that it got here almost six many years later, the quantity of satisfaction on this program remains to be the identical.
“We have been ready for it,” stated Steve Moon, who was a member of the 1963 state championship group. We thought they might come again faster.”
“Simply to have the ability to have and rejoice this second with them 59 years later remains to be particular,” stated present head boys basketball coach Charlie Ward of getting members of the 1963 group at Florida High Wednesday to rejoice their most up-to-date title.
“I imply, we did not simply win this for us, Coach Ward, we received it for the academics and the scholars,” stated senior Tre Donaldson. “It feels nice. There is not any different feeling prefer it.”
It is feeling shared throughout generations.
“It actually has been with me my complete life,” stated Moon. “Regardless of the place I went or what I did, you all the time have a sense that if you happen to work onerous and also you attempt onerous, you are able to do it.”
“1963, that is a very long time, I do not even suppose I used to be considered but,” laughed Donaldson. “That is positively a very long time. That exhibits you ways lengthy a state championship lasts and the way lengthy me and my teammates are going to be part of historical past right here at Florida High.”
Part of historical past, as Demons and as Seminoles.
“There is a poster of them, and it will be the identical method with us,” stated Ward.
However most of all, as household.
