LAKE WALES — Let’s face it. Just say the name Borders and anyone who follows sports in Polk County would associate the name with athletic prowess.
Even if you take the patriarch of the Borders clan out of the mix — that would be World Series MVP, Olympic gold medal and two-sport Lake Wales high star Pat Borders — along with wife Kathy, a stellar athlete in her own right, there’s a daunting athletic legacy for Lake Wales senior soccer player Lily Borders to follow just coming behind in the footsteps of her older siblings.
The eldest of Pat and Kathy’s offspring Lindsey was called up late in the season and was on Lake Wales’ first state championship softball team in 2007. Levi and Luke were two-sport standouts at Winter Haven then starred in baseball at USF. Laura-Beth played softball and soccer at Winter Haven and Webber, and Leah was a high-scoring soccer player at Lake Wales and played college soccer at Florida Southern and Webber.
But the best was yet to come.
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