For many high school football teams across Collier County, average is slowly being melded into elite. These teenagers, raw and unpolished rocks with aspirations and dreams, are being slowly ground into gemstones by the relentless work that it takes to be winners and champions.

Football University's Top Gun Showcase is set for Friday-Sunday at Paradise Coast Sports Complex in Naples. The event is an annual three-day showcase designed to highlight the best middle and high school FBU student-athletes in an intense, positionspecific test of technical skill and ability.

College or pro, and now even in high schools in Florida, money talks. What have you done for me lately? Unless you can put a financial figure on it, well, what are we really doing?

What makes the Everblades unique is threefold.

These paddles aren't just aesthetically pleasing-they offer high performance, as well. The paddle face is made of carbon fiber, while the core consists of polypropylene honeycomb to provide outstanding impact distribution.

The NCAA reportedly will pay more than $2.7 billion in damages over 10 years to past and current athletes through a revenue-sharing plan that allows each Power Five school from the

“They're both really tough kids but what impresses me is they're also unselfish.