The Herald-Tribune is proud to honor area high school sports programs with our Top Teams list and poll this season. This will be a monthly feature highlighting Sarasota and Manatee high school teams that rise above the rest.
At the beginning of each month during the high school competitive seasons, the Herald-Tribune will select the teams that stood out the month before for their stellar achievements and sportsmanship. Once we compile the list, we will leave it up to you to decide which squads deserve to be named the Herald-Tribune Top Team of the Month.
Nominees are derived from scores and stats emailed by Sarasota and Manatee County coaches to htincoming@gmail.com. Coaches and athletic directors are encouraged to submit a nomination by the last
day of each month if they have a team that deserves recognition.
For September, we selected 8 nominees, and after a week of voting, the Sarasota boys golf team finished with 51 percent of the vote. In September, Sarasota finished second in the Terrapin Invitational and the South Florida PGA West Coast High School Championship. In the 2026 Jenkins Invitational, Sarasota finished third.
The other seven nominees were Lakewood Ranch Boys Golf, Parrish Community Girls Golf, Riverview Girls Cross Country, Riverview Volleyball, Sarasota Football, Sarasota Girls Cross Country and Venice Football.
You can look for the Top Teams poll for October in early November 2026 at heraldtribune.com.
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Sarasota boys golf voted Herald-Tribune Top Team for September
