Manatee County's high school JROTC teams brought home top awards from the 2022 Florida State Raider Challenge in Polk County.
Teams are divided into three categories based on their program size. Tier 1 is large, Tier 2 is medium and Tier 3 is small.
Here are the results for Manatee County Schools:
Bayshore High School Runners-Up
Second Place (Overall) - Male, Tier 3 - Runners-up out of 11 Raider teams
First Place (Male) in Team Run event
Second Place (Male) in Rope Bridge, X-Country Rescue and Tire Flip events
Braden River High School State Champions
First Place (Overall) - Mixed (Female & Male), Tier 2 - Top performers out of nine Raider teams
First Place (Mixed) in Rope Bridge, X-Country Rescue, Tire Flip and Team Run events
Lakewood Ranch High School State Champions
First Place (Overall) - Female, Tier 3 - Top performers out of nine Raider teams
First Place (Female) in X-Country Rescue, Tire Flip and Mystery events
Third Place (Female) in Rope Bridge event
Manatee High School State Champions
First Place (Overall) - Male, Tier 2 - Top performers out of nine Raider teams
Second Place (Overall) - Female, Tier 2 - Runners-up out of nine Raider teams
First Place (Female) in Tire Flip event
First Place (Male) in Tire Flip and Team Run events
Second Place (Female) in Rope Bridge and Team Run events
Second Place (Male) in Rope Bridge, X-Country Rescue and Mystery events
Palmetto High School State Champions
First Place (Overall) - Male, Tier 1 - Top performers out of 10 Florida Raider teams
First Place (Overall) - Female, Tier 1 - Top performers out of six Florida Raider teams
First Place (Female) in X-Country Rescue, Tire Flip and Team Run events
First Place (Male) in Rope Bridge, X-Country Rescue and Tire Flip events
Second Place (Female) in Rope Bridge event
Second Place (Male) in Mystery event
In addition, Southeast High School earned Third Place (Mixed - Female & Male), Tier 1 - Tire Flip event
Congratulations to all of these hardworking students and JROTC instructors!
A special thanks to Lakewood Ranch High JROTC Instructor Shaun O'Dea for submitting this #ManateeSchoolsGoodNews.
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