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Polk County girls youth soccer coach Lily Driver was awarded as the Girls Recreational Coach of the Year by the Florida Youth Soccer Association. Lily is the coach of the Spartans Soccer Club and the TOPsoccer program out of Davenport, and has been a coach in Polk County since the founding of the Spartan Soccer Club in January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n

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TOPsoccer offers a free program for players with mental, learning and physical disabilities, and is currently in it’s fourth year of operation with a total of 14 participants. You can learn more about Spartan Soccer and the TOPsoccer prgram by visiting www.spartan-soccer.club<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured in the above photo from left to right: Tina Rincon, U.S. Youth Soccer President\/Chair, Lily Driver and Joel Dragan, the outgoing director of FYSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polk County Parks and Recreation offers youth sports clubs to kids as young as 3. For more information on youth recreational leagues, <\/a>visit our website<\/a> <\/a>or call the Polk County Parks and Recreation office at 863-534-6911<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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