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SPC was established in 1927 as St. Petersburg Junior College by Captain George M. Lynch, the city superintendent of schools for St. Petersburg. It was founded as a private, non-profit institution to provide affordable, local access to higher education during the economic downturn preceding the Great Depression. [5]
Florida College Falcons: Florida College: Temple Terrace: Continental: Florida Memorial Lions: Florida Memorial University: Miami Gardens: The Sun [a] Florida National Conquistadors: Florida National University: Hialeah: Continental: Keiser Seahawks: Keiser University: West Palm Beach: The Sun [a] New College Banyans: New College of Florida ...
Current member of the Florida Senate: Steve Lombardozzi Jr. Major League Baseball player James E. King: Former member of the Florida Senate: Elizabeth A. Kovachevich: Current United States District Judge Carl M. Kuttler, Jr. Former President of St. Petersburg College: Janet C. Long: Current member of the Florida House of Representatives: Henry ...
The Peter H. Armacost Library, designed by Ayers Saint Gross, houses nearly 250,000 volumes and the Eckerd College Special Collections. [3]The institution now known as Eckerd College was founded as Florida Presbyterian College in 1958 as part of national growth in post-secondary education driven by GIs entering college after returning from World War II and later by the baby boom.
Other schools in the area with baseball programs include Pasco-Hernando Community College, Saint Leo University, and Hillsborough Community College. The University of Tampa Spartans baseball program has won eight Division II national championships: 1992, 1993, 1998, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2015, and 2019.
The St. Pete/Clearwater Elite Invitational is a preseason college softball event that takes place in middle of February of each year, at the Eddie C. Moore Complex in Clearwater, Florida. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Year-by-year
Two World Series games were played in St. Petersburg's Tropicana Field in the fall of 2008 when the Tampa Bay Rays hosted the Philadelphia Phillies. Four Stanley Cup Finals games were played in Tampa's St. Pete Times Forum, now Amalie Arena, late in the spring of 2004 when the Tampa Bay Lightning hosted the Calgary Flames.
Jack Russell Memorial Stadium is a baseball field in Clearwater, Florida. It opened as Jack Russell Stadium in 1955. It was the spring training home of the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball team from 1955 through 2003. Since 2017, it has been home to the Clearwater High School and St. Petersburg College baseball teams. [1]