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The Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) has awarded the Venice High School Lady Indians basketball team the FHSAA 6A Academic Team Champion Award for win- ter 2013-14, the Sarasota County Schools has announced. Team members had a cumulative 3.6 grade point average, "the best academic record in their category in Class 6A," a news release points out. The Riverview High School Lady Rams soc- cer team also received an Academic Team Champion Award for having the best academic record in its 5A category for winter 2013-14, the news release continues. The team had a cumulative 3.56 grade point average. This is the 11th Academic Team Champion Award for a Venice High Athletic team since 2007, the release points out. The awards are displayed in the school's Championship Hall under a heading that says, Athletics in the Classroom. The following are the other years and Venice teams that have won this award: • 2007 boys basketball and boys baseball. • 2008 boys basketball, girls track and field and girls volleyball. • 2009 girls volleyball. • 2010 boys basketball. • 2011 boys weightlifting. • 2013 girls weightlifting and boys basketball. VENICE HIGH AND RIVERVIEW GIRLS TEAMS HONORED FOR ACADEMICS Congressman Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, will be the keynote speaker for the April 24 meeting of the Sarasota Republican Club, the organization has announced. Buchanan will provide an update on the latest issues in the nation's capital and discuss his campaign, a news release says. He "has a very exciting opportunity" as a member of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, the release adds, because the current chairman of that committee will be retiring at the end of this year. The club will meet at 6 p.m. on April 24 at Marina Jack, located at 2 Marina Plaza on Sarasota's bayfront. Dinner reservations are required, the release points out. To make reservations, visit the club website or call 888-325-3212. BUCHANAN TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT APRIL 24 MEETING Vern Buchanan is Sarasota's congressman. Photo from the U.S. Congress via Wikimedia Commons Sarasota News Leader April 18, 2014 Page 92