- July 7, 2026
The Seabreeze boys team had a bye, but the girls were in action on July 2 in the high school 7v7 summer soccer league at the Indian Trails Sports Complex in Palm Coast.
The Sandcrabs’ varsity girls team has struggled in league play because of players on vacation, but the younger team has exceeded expectations, said George Bellingham, who was recently named Seabreeze’s girls head soccer coach.
“I’m excited to see the freshmen on the full field,” Bellingham said. “With the 7v7 it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.”
Daytona State College athletic director Will Dunne has retired after 34 years on the job. Dunne joined DSC in 1988 and became the Falcons’ athletic director in 1992.
Under Dunne’s leadership, DSC opened a number of the athletic venues including the L. Gale Lemerand Athletic Center in 1997, which was renovated this year. The softball complex also opened in 1997. The baseball complex and fieldhouse opened in 1998, and the soccer stadium opened in 2017.
Dunne was inducted into the Florida College System Activities Association Hall of Fame in 2011. In April, Daytona State announced that the gym floor at the Lemerand Center will be named Will Dunne Court.
Alison Mohr, who has worked at DSC since starting as an intern in 1998, will succeed Dunne. Mohr has been DSC’s assoiate athletic director sing 2021.
“I think this whole run has just been a blessing,” Dunne told the Daytona Beach News-Journal. “I've just got so much gratitude for the great people that entrusted me in the role and gave me the opportunity many years ago,”
New Daytona State College men’s basketball coach Reed Ridder has hired three assistants: Tyler Kelderman, who has been an assistant coach at Northwest Florida State College for the past three seasons; Albert Settles, the head coach at Central Florida Christian Academy high school the past two seasons, leading the Eagles to the state final four this year; and James Frazier, who was an assistant coach and JV head coach at St. Petersburg Northwest Chistian School the past two years.
The United States Tennis Association has awarded a $200,000 Tennis Venue Services grant to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The grant will be used for the reconstruction of all nine tennis courts and new fencing at the Crotty Tennis Complex on Embry-Riddle’s campus in Daytona Beach.
“This grant from the USTA is a game changer for our program,” said Chad Berryhill, ERAU women’s tennis coach. “With us securing the grant, we are able to get the project completed this summer instead of waiting for another fiscal year. The new courts create opportunities to better serve the greater Daytona Beach area as well as Volusia County as we look to add more community events and support to our community and our varsity tennis programs.”
