Competitive Teams
Academic Olympics: Pine View's Academic Olympic Team competes on the county and contributes to the All-County team for the state tournament. The team holds tryouts during the year for prospective members and trains and competes weekly during the season. The team won the county championship every year until 1990. More recently, the team won the 2011 and 2012 county championships.
Speech and Debate Team: The team is Pine View's largest competitive team, routinely having over 120 members. Team membership is open to all high school students who meet the membership requirements put forth in the Team Bylaws. Members are recognized as varsity competitors by the National Forensics League (NFL). The team has been recognized on the state, national, and international levels. In the 2011-2012 school year, the team placed in the Top 32 in the world in the International Public Policy Forum World Championship, sponsored by the Bickel and Brewer Law Firm and New York University. In 2012, the National Catholic Forensic League awarded a Daniel S. Masterson, Jr. Award of Excellence in Forensics to the Pine View Speech and Debate Team for ranking in the top 5 teams in the nation. From 2000 until 2012, the team produced seven Academic-All Americans, the top NFL award.
Sports: Pine View has middle school sports teams for basketball, track and field, and volleyball. In the 2008-2009 school year, the tennis team went undefeated and won the Sarasota County Championship, and in 2009-2010 both the men's and women's basketball teams went undefeated and won the county final. In the 2009-2010 school year, the Pine View women's tennis team went undefeated in the regular season, but lost the county Championship to Sarasota Middle School.
Historically, Pine View has not housed many high school sports teams. Students who wished to play sports were permitted to join their district high school teams. However, Pine View is becoming directly affiliated with more sports teams. In the 2010-2011 school year, Pine View started their first official high school sport: lacrosse. The Pine View lacrosse program is a club team of the Gulf Coast Lacrosse Chapter of US Lacrosse. The main reason behind the club not being recognized by the FHSAA as a varsity team is because Pine View never registered it, for the purpose of cost-cutting. According to the FHSAA by-laws, if a school has even one FHSAA recognized varsity program, no student attending that school could play for any other sport for any other school. Since Pine View would prefer to allow the students to have the freedom to choose to play any sport, on top of the fact that the school doesn't have the funding necessary to jump start every program, they choose not to make the club team FHSAA-recognized and instead take the county option to allow the students to play for their districted school. Additionally, Pine View has a club Sailing Team. The most popular club sport that Pine View students participate in (though not school affiliated) is sculling. ake the county option to allow the students to play for their districted school.
Other Competitive Teams: In addition to the teams listed above, numerous Pine View student clubs and organizations participate in competitive events ranging from national robotics competitions, to off-road motor biking, to circus performing.
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