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unusual facts about Bradenton, FL



Bryan Dominguez

Dominguez grew up in Cali, Colombia, but returned to the United States as a teenager when he was offered a place at the US National Residency Program in Bradenton, Florida in 2006.

Eddie Ababio

Born in Accra, Ghana, Ababio lived for several years in Tampa, Florida where he played for HC United and Gaither High School before joining the US Under-17 national team residency at the IMG Soccer Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

Hootie Ingram

Ingram began a coaching career in July 1956 when he was hired as an assistant football coach at Manatee High School in Bradenton, Florida.

Jeff Kenna

On 1 August 2011, Kenna joined the coaching staff at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

John Ellinger

While at Bradenton, Ellinger had a significant role in developing many of the most outstanding of American soccer players, including Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Bobby Convey, Edward Johnson, Chad Marshall, Freddy Adu, Eddie Gaven, Danny Szetela, and Jonathan Spector.

Lastings Milledge

He graduated from Lakewood Ranch High School in Bradenton, Florida in 2003 after leading his team to the state 5A title his senior year.

Lauren Drain

Drain was born in Tampa, Florida and lived in nearby Bradenton until age five, when she moved to Olathe, Kansas as her father enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Kansas.

Leo Hershfield

After moving to Bradenton, FL in 1958, Hershfield continued to illustrate books and articles for the St. Petersburg Times and Sarasota Herald Tribune, spending his spare time sailing the Manatee River and documenting Florida through watercolors.

Luis Gil

Gil, who has partial Mexican ancestry through his father, attended the IMG Soccer Academy in Bradenton, Florida in 2008 as a youth player.

Manatee County courthouses

Old Manatee County Courthouse, 1104 Manatee Avenue, East, Bradenton, Florida, the first courthouse

Manatee County Courthouse, 1115 Manatee Avenue, West, Bradenton, Florida, the third and present courthouse

Manatee Palms Youth Services

Manatee Palms Youth Services is a 60-bed psychiatric hospital in Bradenton, Florida, and a subsidiary of for-profit Psychiatric Solutions.

Snooty

After he was brought to the South Florida Museum for the 1949 De Soto Heritage Festival, he was housed in a 30,000 gallon round tank at the Bradenton Municipal Pier, also the original home of the South Florida Museum and Bradenton's local radio station WTRL (now WWPR).

The Town Talk

He has since worked for newspapers owned by Landmark Communications Inc. in Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabethtown, Kentucky; and for Knight Ridder Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania, and Bradenton, Florida.


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