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 Florida Gulf Coast University’s women’s team went 26-5 last year. |
If you have time or energy left, there’s even more sports. Florida Gulf Coast University placed four teams in the top 100 of NCAA Division 1 competition last year, led by the women’s basketball team’s 26-5 run.
Cape Coral will host the 2010 Florida Senior games championships in December and is planning a multimillion-dollar National Swimming Center it hopes to open in 2012.
And pickleball, a miniaturized form of tennis that’s played over a net on a badminton-sized court with wooden paddles and small wiffle balls, is booming on public courts and racquet clubs.
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The Everblades draw 4,000 to 5,000 fans a game. [Photo: allarsonphoto.com] |
Hockey is a more recent and surprising success story. The Everblades draw 4,000 to 5,000 fans a game. Regardless of how well the Blades do this season, Lee County skates hard all year long in Pee Wee, youth junior and adults leagues of men and women. Nobody knows how many locals play hockey, but they fill two rinks, the off-hours at Germain Arena and the city-owned Skatium, and support three hockey shops.
Off the ice, inline skaters have four surfaces for their own teams and games.
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