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Super League enthusiasm

The United Soccer League announced it will field an expansion team in Jacksonville starting in 2025. The ownership group includes, from left, Ricky Caplin, former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and Managing Partner Steve Livingstone.
Will Brown
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Jacksonville Today
The United Soccer League announced it will field an expansion team in Jacksonville starting in 2025. The ownership group includes, from left, Ricky Caplin, former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and Managing Partner Steve Livingstone.

Excitement over a local women’s pro soccer team reached a fever pitch last week, as Sporting Club Jacksonville announced a deal to play its inaugural 2025/26 season at the University of North Florida’s Hodges Stadium. The Division 1 USL Super League will be Jacksonville’s first women’s pro soccer team and promises to change the North Florida landscape for women in sport.

Guests:

  • Tony Allegretti, chief community officer, Sporting Club Jacksonville.
  • Zara Siassi, United Soccer Coaches All-American, former defensive midfielder with the University of North Florida Ospreys.

Then, Jacksonville’s earliest “tiny homes” communities were known as Bungalow Courts. We talk with the author of Jacksonville’s Architectural Heritage about the special place the three remaining Bungalow Courts hold in local history and how they are being slated for preservation.

Guest:

  • Dr. Wayne Wood, author and architectural historian.

And, heat as art? We explore the Museum of Contemporary Art’s new atrium installation, which transforms thermodynamics into a visual tapestry. The exhibit rounds out MOCA's centennial year.

Guest:

Plus, just what the Dickens is up in Fernandina Beach this holiday weekend? We’ll tell you what you can expect from Dickens on Centre, the 10th annual Victorian-inspired celebration in the historic heart of Amelia Island.

Guest:

  • Madison Jozsa, Amelia Island Convention & Visitors Bureau.
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Anne Schindler joined WJCT News 89.9 as host of First Coast Connect in October 2023, after nearly three decades in Jacksonville print and television. Anne has worked in the Jacksonville media market since 1995, first as a reporter for the original Folio Weekly, then as the publication’s editor-in-chief from 2002 until her departure. In 2012, Anne transitioned to television as executive producer of special projects for First Coast News, Northeast Florida’s NBC and ABC affiliates. You can reach Anne at aschindler@wjct.org.