North Miami Beach High School - Sports Rivalries

Sports Rivalries

NMB's athletic rivals are North Miami Senior High School and Dr. Michael M. Krop High School.

Prior to the opening of Krop, the following schools were the most intense rivals: Men's Soccer- North Miami Senior High School, especially games at the Pioneers' home field, the scene of a historic Ciro Martinez-led last-second Charger win in 1976 that helped fuel the Chargers' run to the Florida state championship.

The Vikings of Miami Norland Senior High School, who inflicted a 1977 loss on the Chargers, knocking them out of the Florida state playoffs at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, and ending the Chargers' hope of winning back-to-back Florida state soccer championships. The Vikings eventually finished as the state runner-up that year.

Women's Gymnastics-

• North Miami Senior High School always proved tough competition when twin sisters Debbie Reiser and Donna Reiser were top-flight All-Dade gymnasts there between 1975-79. Ultimately, NMBs greater depth and all-around ability always won the day by the last event led by Lisa Martin and Karen Ginsburg.
• The toughest competition for the NMB Charger gymnastics team during their undefeated glory days of the late 1970s under head coach Peter Saponaro -himself an All-American and co-captain of an NCAA Championship Men's team at Pennsylvania State University in the 1960s- The team was stocked with a bevy of talented gymnasts: Laurie Reiff, the Zobler sisters, Toby Kapp, Joyce Budowsky and Yael Kantor.