Local musician visits The Admiral’s Own Band, inspires greatness
Juan “Juanjamon” Montero visited The Admiral’s Own Band members last week and sparked the type of energy Farragut music teacher Gabe Whitney hopes will propel the band to greater heights this year and...
View ArticleHow SAGE Dining goes above and beyond for our students
Our food service company, SAGE Dining Services, would like to welcome all of our families to the 2016-17 school year. This year our students will benefit from Educational Seasonings, a monthly...
View ArticleChance drawing to benefit the Admiral’s Athletics Club, win $5,000 worth of wine
The board of the Admiral’s Athletic Club is proud to announce its 1st annual wine chance drawing. Students and the AAC will be selling tickets for $10 each and one lucky participant will win $5,000...
View ArticleBoarding life at Farragut restructured and revamped; meet the new team
Kyndal Olander ’17 Kyndal Olander is excited. The third-year boarding student from Brooksville, Florida has reached her senior year “the way you’re supposed to, by rising up to leadership through the...
View ArticleLower School teacher spends time away from school competing in open water...
Maren Lynch with her husband, Bill, and their two daughters, Claire and Katie. Lower School teacher Maren Lynch likes to swim with the sharks. Literally. Sure, a majority of us may equate her job...
View ArticleFarragut football alumni shining on the gridiron this season
Todd Macon We caught up with two of our alumni, Todd Macon ’13 with Liberty University and Rayshawn Jenkins ’12 with the University of Miami, as they make their presence known this football season....
View ArticleLower School Student Government Association speeches filled with rhetoric...
Jacob Arias One candidate presented a list of seven items she would enact if elected. Another emphasized how much she cared about the school. One couldn’t promise chocolate milk in every water fountain...
View ArticleOfficer Mike and K9 Mike highlight the first Lower School assembly of the year
Staff Sergeant Michael Marcus, known as Officer Mike around campus, brought his trusted canine, Mike, a K9 officer, to the assembly at the DeSeta Chapel and received many “oohs” and “ahhs” from the...
View ArticleScholastic Book Fair: October 10-14
Scholastic Book Fairs provide a wonderful selection of engaging and affordable books for younger reading levels and the proceeds benefit our school. The Admiral Farragut Academy Scholastic Book Fair...
View ArticleSpring Break trip to France, Mediterranean, and Spain
Join Mr. Robalino and Mrs. Gonczar on the trip of a lifetime to spend 10 days exploring France, the Mediterranean, and Spain. The trip departs on Thursday, March 9, 2017 from Tampa, Florida and...
View ArticleSalt marsh planting; students work together to save the world
Dozens of Kindergarteners…and first-graders and second-graders, in fact the entire student body — Upper and Lower School — spent a portion of their day on September 8 getting muddy planting hundreds...
View ArticleFarragut parent is KFC’s “Extra Crispy Colonel”
If you’ve watched any amount of television over the past couple months, you’ve probably noticed a tanned version of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders called the “Extra Crispy Colonel” enjoying...
View ArticleParents Group’ Golf Tournament 2016
Friday, October 21, 2016 8:30 AM Shotgun Start at Pasadena Yacht and Country Club 6300 Pasadena Point Blvd S. Gulfport, FL 33707 Register for Golf Tournament Dear Parents, Alumni, Family and Friends,...
View ArticleThanksgiving Break sailing trip to the islands with LeaderSail
“Building the Leaders of Tomorrow…Through Experience Today” LeaderSail is an exciting and demanding leadership development program built around sail training and marine exploration. Developed by...
View ArticleBoys cross country team keeps improving
The boys cross country team finished a respectable 19th out of 24 teams at the Mitchell (Mike Holl) Invitational last Saturday morning in New Port Richey, Fla., defeating neighborhood rival Shorecrest...
View ArticleSail team competes at the first regatta of the 2016-17 SEISA Series
The sail team recently competed in the first regatta of the 2016-17 South East Interscholastic Sailing Association (SEISA) South Points Series, finishing a respectable 24th out of 26 teams. The event,...
View ArticleDrama class sees “Good People” performance at American Stage theatre
On Wednesday, 21 students from Mrs. Reilly’s drama class spent the morning in the rough-and-tumble section of South Boston’s Lower End and the early afternoon in the well-to-do area of Chestnut Hill,...
View ArticleMarine science students participate in NOAA “Fishermen of the Greater Tampa...
The Upper School marine science classes participated in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Federal “Fishermen of the Greater Tampa Bay” Oral History Grant for the third...
View ArticleBoys golf team off to impressive start of the season
The Boys Golf Team enters the final week of the regular season on quite a roll, having won six of its first seven matches. Better yet, two of the victories included matches with two other schools at...
View ArticleFarragut cadets compete in NJROTC Brain Brawl
A group of NJROTC cadets, broken down into two teams of five contestants each, competed in an Area 7 Academic Competition called the “Brain Brawl” on Saturday, September 24, at Gaither High in Tampa....
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