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The Lightning’s second straight Stanley Cup championship is the latest Tampa Bay triumph, but it’s only one of a string of victories making Tampa Bay a topic of sports news and highlight reels for the past 18 months.

Here’s the story from CBS Sports:

‘Champa Bay’: Exploring the new golden age of Tampa sports
But that’s not even all that happened here in sports…the Tampa Bay Times made note of some other great highlights:

The Rowdies won their conference

Sebastian Guenzatti and the Rowdies won the Eastern Conference title last year.
Sebastian Guenzatti and the Rowdies won the Eastern Conference title last year. [ SCOTT PURKS | Special to the Times ]

The USL championship was canceled after multiple positive coronavirus tests within the Rowdies. That meant Tampa Bay didn’t get a shot at another league title; instead, the Rowdies had to settle for winning the Eastern Conference.

Colton Herta won the Grand Prix

Belleair resident Colton Herta (left) won the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg this spring.
Belleair resident Colton Herta (left) won the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg this spring. [ IVY CEBALLO | Times ]

The 21-year-old IndyCar Series hotshot is a California native but lives in Belleair Beach. His performance elsewhere in Pinellas County landed him on this list: He won the pole at April’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg and led 97 of the race’s 100 laps to cruise to a dominant victory.

USF had its best run in decades

The USF women's basketball team was a big part of the Bulls' most successful year in decades.
The USF women’s basketball team was a big part of the Bulls’ most successful year in decades. [ USF Athletics ]

Four teams (women’s basketball, baseball, men’s golf and women’s soccer) combined for six AAC championships to give the Bulls their biggest haul in 23 years. The baseball team advanced to the super regional, while the women’s basketball team’s tournament championship was its first ever, after four previous runnerup finishes to UConn. USF’s coed cheer team added to the trophy collection with a national title.

Trayvon Bromell won the 100 meters

Trayvon Bromell finished first in the U.S. Olympic trials and will be the gold medal favorite in Tokyo.
Trayvon Bromell finished first in the U.S. Olympic trials and will be the gold medal favorite in Tokyo. [ CHRIS CARLSON | AP ]

The Gibbs High alumnus finished first in the U.S. Olympic track and field trials last month with a blazing time of 9.80 seconds. Bromell hopes that’s a prelude of what’s still to come. He has the fastest time in the world this year (9.77 seconds) and will enter the Tokyo Games as the favorite to win gold in one of the Olympics’ marquee events.

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