A football player who just finished eighth grade in D.C. already rakes in name, image and likeness money and has an agent to help him navigate sponsorship deals at just 14 years old.

Kaden Coleman Bennett has had a knack for finding the end zone on the football field since he first discovered the sport, and he says he’s just getting started.

“I found something that I love; I found something that I wanted to do,” he said. “And you know, since then I’ve always been playing football since I was four.”

Gator football alumni and Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson will host his youth camp, the Anthony Richardson Football Skills Academy, in his hometown of Gainesville.

The camp, as part of the Anthony Richardson Foundation, is free for the public on June 21 at Citizens Park. For Richardson, the camp is an opportunity for young athletes to learn about character-building through high-level athletic training.

“This is about more than football. It’s about showing kids that with hard work, discipline, and the right support, they can achieve anything on the field and in life,” Richardson told the Alachua Chronicle.

NFL quarterback Anthony Richardson is bringing his passion for the game and heart for the community with the Anthony Richardson Football Skills Academy, taking place for free on Saturday, June 21, 2025, at Citizens Field. Registration starts at 8 am. Camp begins at 9. pic.twitter.com/5qxMwKEIS6

— Alachua Chronicle (@AlachuaChronic1) June 11, 2025

The camp will include a parent summit called “Navigating the Journey of Parenting Athletes” hosted by Richardson’s mother, LaShawnda Cleare. The summit will help parents by having experts lead conversations on topics including financial literacy, mental health, access to legal services and more. The goal is to help families support their children on their athletic journey.

“I want them to walk away from this experience believing in themselves and knowing they have a team behind them,” Richardson said.

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Richardson led Florida at quarterback from 2020-2022 before going 4th overall to the Indianapolis Colts in the 2023 NFL Draft. He is currently out with a shoulder injury, though he is expected to be back for Colts training camp.

Richardson shoulder has been a consistent issue, being sidelined for most of 2023 with a similar injury. In his second year, he threw for 1,814 yards, eight touchdowns and 12 interceptions amidst shoulder and oblique injuries.

Richardson will compete with former Giants Quarterback Daniel Jones for the Colt’s starting job next season. Their battle for first on the depth chart begins at Indianapolis’ training camp, which will begin July 26th.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In honor of those who have died, here is a compilation of obituaries posted on SILive.

Viewing times and guest books can be seen obits.silive.com.

Frank J. LoPrimo, 92, died peacefully on June 4, 2025, in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Born on Feb. 3, 1933, in the Bronx, N.Y., Frank moved to Staten Island as a child, living most of his life in West Brighton. A proud U.S. Army veteran, he dedicated 36 years to serving as a firefighter with the FDNY in Manhattan and Staten Island. Frank was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather who shared a passion for golf and coaching youth sports. He is deeply missed by his loving family. Read the full obituary on SILive.

Generative AI was used to produce an initial draft of this story based on data from Legacy.com. It was reviewed and edited by Advance/SILive.com staff.

University of North Carolina midfielder Evelyn Shores isn’t taking a break this summer.

Six months after helping the Tar Heels capture their 23rd NCAA title,  she scored the winning goal last month for the U.S. women’s national team against Germany at under-23 level. And on Monday, she found the back of the net again, winning $1million for the US Women at The Soccer Tournament (TST) staged just miles from her university. 

Recruited by former USWNT midfielder Heather O’Reilly, 20 years her senior, Shores joined a team of American legends, including O’Reilly, Carli Lloyd and Ali Krieger, for the seven-a-side, winner-takes-all competition. 

“I was sprinting back to recover on defense, saw Heather (O’Reilly) win the ball, and just went. I was exhausted, but I had to go,” Shores tells The Athletic. “She put it on a platter for me. I had to finish it.”

Though still jetlagged from her trip across the Atlantic Ocean with the under-23s, Shores went straight into training alongside players she’d watched win World Cups and Olympic gold medals. 

“Playing one-v-one in practice with Carli Lloyd the day after flying in from Germany? That was insane,” she says. “They made us feel like equals. That was the craziest part.”

She was one of the five North Carolina (UNC) players O’Reilly invited to join her and the other World Cup winners at TST, which takes place over a week in Cary, North Carolina. 

“I have always liked Evelyn as a player, from the first minute I saw her play at Carolina,” O’Reilly tells The Athletic. “I’m thrilled that she had that goal, because she had a very good tournament and does a lot of nuanced work for the team that maybe isn’t flashy, but she had her moment, and we are all so happy about that.”

For Shores, TST was a refreshing change of pace.

“It’s such a fun tournament,” she says. “The ball moves fast, everyone’s pressing, you sub out the second you’re tired, and fans are basically on top of the field. It’s a different kind of soccer — and maybe more exciting for people who aren’t into the traditional 11 v 11 (format).”

Evelyn Shores was one of five UNC players to join USWNT legends at TST. (The Soccer Tournament)

The 20-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia, began her soccer journey at age four at Tophat FC, an elite youth academy in her home state. For Shores, soccer is a family tradition. Her mother, a former North Carolina player, was her first coach. Her grandpa had coached her mom. 

“I wrote a letter to myself in fifth grade saying I hoped I’d get a scholarship to UNC. I committed in eighth grade (a child’s aged 13 or 14 year),” Shores said. “I always knew I wanted to come here.”

That commitment has paid off. In her rookie year, she appeared in 13 matches, finishing that season ranked third on the team with four goals, three assists and 11 points, to lead all UNC freshmen. She scored her first college brace in a three-minute stretch against the University of South Carolina, which included her first goal. 

But in the October, her promising first season came to a halt. While attempting a tackle near the sideline against Wake Forest, she got tangled up with an opposition player and collapsed, clutching her right knee, unable to stand without help. Five days later, Shores announced she’d torn her ACL and that her season was over. 

Amid the heartbreak, she had support from her family and friends throughout the recovery process and she counted the days to her comeback. After two surgeries and a difficult rehabilitation period, Shores returned in 2024 to play in the final 10 games of the season, with her first appearance back coming against No. 1-ranked Duke in the regular-season finale. 

“My first goal back from my injury was very special,” she tells The Athletic.

She scored against Duke, UNC’s biggest rival, with her left foot in the 44th minute. 

“After such a long time off the field, coming back and scoring was like a huge deal to me,” she says. 

Just over a month later, Shores played 44 minutes as UNC beat Wake Forest 1-0 to win the NCAA title.

After recovering from an ACL tear, Evelyn Shores helped UNC to an NCAA title (Bob Donnan/Imagn Images)

Announcing herself with a goal is a habit now.

When Shores was named to the USWNT Under-23 camp last month, she was the only player there not signed to a professional contract. But that didn’t matter on the field. In the final minute of stoppage time on May 30 in the German town of Aspach, after a scramble in the box, Seattle Reign center back Jordyn Bugg lifted a ball over Germany’s defense. Shores got on the end of the looping pass and one-timed the ball into the net. 

“It was a surreal experience,” Shores tells The Athletic. “Honestly, I couldn’t even really celebrate after the goal, because I was just so relieved.”

The U.S. split results during the window, losing 2-1 to the Germans a couple of days later, and Shores flew directly back to North Carolina to represent the U.S. in a different capacity. She, again, introduced herself with a game-winning goal.

For now, Shores is focused on a healthy return, another trip to the NCAA College Cup, and if the stars align, TST again next year. 

As for the $1million she helped win, for not just herself but the players she’s looked up to? Unfortunately for Shores, NCAA rules prohibit student-athletes from accepting prize money. “I’m not actually sure where my portion goes,” she says with a shrug. “But I’m just happy to be a part of it.”

A spokesperson for TST confirmed that the money that could not be awarded to the college players was divided evenly among the rest of the group.

While her TST goal may be the most high-profile moment yet, it’s likely just the beginning for the rising college junior. She’s still undecided about whether she’ll pursue a professional career in the U.S. or abroad, but one thing’s clear: she’s got options.

“I’ve always wanted to be a pro. That’s been the dream since I was little,” she said.

“This will be my first healthy preseason in a while,” Shores said, speaking about her immediate future. “Just being back on the field, competing, playing with teammates I love, it’s all been surreal.”

(Top photo: The Soccer Tournament) 

Palm Coast government wants to align city policy with a new state law requiring more detailed criminal backgrounding of youth athletic coaches and others who supervise children in organized sports even when they do not work for the city. 

The backgrounding could result in disqualification from coaching in some cases, but council members want to more precisely define those thresholds so that, say, a drug offense from 10 years ago isn’t a life sentence away from coaching. The city attorney is cautioning council members to be consistent, whichever policy they adopt. 

“It’s going to be a tightrope for sure to find that spot where we’re keeping our kids safe but also not doing a disservice to them by removing people that would be good mentors,” Council member Ty Miller said. 

Last spring the legislature passed a bill requiring state and national criminal background checks–called Level 2 screenings–for youth athletic coaches and their assistants starting no later than July 2026. The requirement applies to private organizations such as little league baseball, soccer or flag football, all of which operate in Palm Coast. The governor signed the bill into law. 

An important caveat to the law: “a person who has not been background screened may act as an athletic coach if he or she is under the direct supervision of an athletic coach who meets the screening requirements,” according to a legislative analysis of the bill. 

Employees and volunteers working for Palm Coast already receive a Level 2 screening through the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, which also provides that $60 to $105 service to anyone else who requests it. (The fingerprinting the city was requiring of its employees and volunteers had cost $36 until recently, which the city paid.) 

Typically, athletic coaches received Level 1 background checks, which don;t include national backgrounding. Vendor at city events who directly interacts with children are also required to be backgrounded. Now, all those individuals will have to have Level 2 checks. The requirement is annual. Nothing stops a local government from requiring it sooner than July 2026. 

Since numerous athletic organizations operate in the city, the council had two options: to require each organization to provide an affidavit that certifies compliance with the new law, or for the city to conduct the background checks for each organizations’ coaches and assistant coaches directly. The city in the past has asked certain organizations to provide letters certifying who had been backgrounded. But the approach was informal, and must now be according to law. 

National organizations have generally required screenings “due to insurance purposes,” , Acting City Manager Lauren Johnston said. “They make all volunteers, including coaches, anybody that’s going to have any direct interaction with children, go through that background process. But this previously it was like a Level 1, and now they have upped it to a Level 2.” 

Council member Ty Miller was looking for consistency in expectations and enforcement of the new requirement. A lot of organizations, he said, may focus on crimes against children. There could be individual coaches who may have faced criminal charges unrelated to children who the organization would not disqualify, “which is a concern of mine,” he said. “Same thing with say, drugs. You sold drugs, but you didn’t sell them to a kid, so it’s ok. It doesn’t seem right to me.”

To Miller, the city could define the threshold of disqualification for coaches and others interacting with children, even if they are not volunteering for the city, or employed by it, but running sports organizations within its borders. Violent crime and drugs should be disqualifiers in his view. “In effect, they’re acting on our behalf because of that use of the city facilities and parks,” Miller said. 

He did not specify what kind of drugs or what level charges, but in a text exchange with FlaglerLive today he said he favored a common-sense approach without being too heavy-handed. 

He’s not interested in adding costs to the city to pay for those screenings. But he is interested in having access to an organization’s screening records “and make sure they’re all matching up at any given time, so that we’re keeping them honest,” he said. 

“I don’t want to go overboard here but I also want to make sure that we don’t have bad people under the radar either,” Miller wrote. “Vice mayor also indicated that there may be other things like animal abuse or domestic violence that may not be a felony that need to be considered as well.” 

Local governments generally suspend an employee who is charged with a felony, but not a misdemeanor. First and second-offense drunk driving charges are typically a misdemeanor, as is discharging a weapon in public or battering someone, including a domestic partner. Aggravating factors convert the charges to felonies. (Child abuse or child neglect are automatic felonies, though they often get pleaded down to misdemeanors.) 

“We have to keep in mind that we’re talking about coaches that are mentoring our young people,” Council member Theresa Pontieri said, with children coming from “some troubled backgrounds of their own, and sometimes it takes a mentor who’s been through that to pull the kid out of that. So I don’t want to disqualify people who have a past history of drugs, but it was 10 years ago.” 

Mayor Mike Norris is worried about city overreach, what he calls “getting in the weeds when you shouldn’t be, and I don’t want the city to incur legal ramifications or something like that.” He’d support requiring affidavits from local organizations, but nothing beyond that.