Sebastian River High School Athletics

Sebastian River High School plays as the Sharks in the Florida High School Athletic Association, with football, softball and girls basketball the most visible varsity programs in 2025-2026 and a rowing club that grew out of the school.

The Sharks are the varsity teams of Sebastian's public high school, a campus of 1,777 students in grades 9 to 12 in 2024-2025 (NCES). The school is classified sport by sport. Football plays in Class 4A, District 4A-13 (FloridaHSFootball.com), while softball reached the Class 5A playoffs and girls basketball competed in 5A District 13 in the 2025-2026 school year.

Sebastian River also wrestles: one of the 2026 football Players of the Week profiled by Sebastian Daily competes on the wrestling mat as well (Sebastian Daily). This page covers the Sebastian River programs with public, dated results in 2025-2026.

Football and other field events are played at Shark Stadium on the Sebastian River High campus at 9001 Shark Blvd, and softball plays at the field the school calls the Shark Tank.

FloridaHSFootball.com lists Shark Stadium at 9001 Shark Blvd, the same campus NCES records as 9001 90th Avenue (FloridaHSFootball.com). The stadium doubles as the school's largest gathering place. Sebastian River High held its May 15, 2026 graduation there, and because campus parking is limited and County Road 510 was under construction, families parked at Sebastian River Middle School and rode school buses to the stadium (Sebastian Daily). On June 7, 2025 the stadium hosted the first Treasure Coast Police K9 Competition, with more than 30 K9 teams from across the region (Sebastian Daily).

Equipment at Shark Stadium leans on community money. In September 2026, 17 Sebastian businesses raised $10,350 to replace the scoreboard play clocks after visiting teams had arrived to a scoreboard with no working play clock (Sebastian Daily). The goal had been $6,000; the clocks were ordered on Sept. 8 and had arrived by Sept. 25, and the extra $4,350 went to the football program (Sebastian Daily).

The indoor gym serves the wider Sebastian area too. Indian River County lists the Sebastian River High School gymnasium, with the Sebastian River Middle gym, among the sites for its coed youth basketball league (Indian River County).

Sebastian River High football stood at 0-7 after a 14-5 loss at Legacy on Oct. 9, 2026, with three regular-season games left in District 4A-13 and against Harmony.

The 2026 Sharks were shut out four times in their first seven games, scoring 19 points in total, according to the team page kept by FloridaHSFootball.com (FloridaHSFootball.com). Sebastian Daily's preseason schedule set every regular-season varsity kickoff at 7:00 p.m. (Sebastian Daily). The program's first season was 1994.

The slump followed a better finish a year earlier. Sebastian River closed its 2025 season with a 30-8 home win over Port St. Lucie on Military Night, an annual Shark Stadium tradition honoring veterans and service members (Sebastian Daily). In a May 2026 spring game the Sharks beat Palm Bay 24-14 on the road (Sebastian Daily).

The Sebastian River High softball team reached a regional final for the first time in school history in May 2026, and girls basketball led 5A District 13 at midseason.

The Lady Sharks softball team beat St. Thomas Aquinas 8-4 on May 12, 2026 to reach the Final Eight of the FHSAA Class 5A playoffs, the first regional final in Sebastian River history (Sebastian Daily). The team carried a 12-player roster, and the regional final was set to be played at the Shark Tank in Sebastian if Legacy won its rescheduled semifinal.

Girls basketball opened 2025-2026 at 15-3 overall and 1-0 in district play, good for first place in 5A District 13 on Jan. 23, 2026, during a nine-game winning streak (Sebastian Daily). Sebastian Daily listed the team 48th in Florida as of Jan. 16, 2026 and noted a home game that night against Vero Beach, the county's other public high school.

No: Sebastian River Rowing is an independent club that started on Canal 54 in 2006, supported by Sebastian River High administration and open to rowers from any school in Indian River and Brevard counties.

The club says so directly: it is an independent club, not a school team, and athletes from public, private, charter or home schools in either county can row (Sebastian River Rowing). Its site counts 27 Florida state scholastic and club championships and describes the program as the first junior rowing program on the Treasure Coast. WFLX reported 24 state titles in October 2024 (WFLX), and Sebastian Daily reported the 25th, the club's first in the women's junior quad, at the April 2025 state sculling championship at Nathan Benderson Park (Sebastian Daily).

The home course is Canal 54, about 12 miles of protected water with one slight bend and little boat traffic (Sebastian River Rowing). The club leases the site from the St. Johns River Water Management District. Parents and the Sebastian River High athletic department raised $11,000 for a first boat shed in 2007, supporters added a $20,000 second shed in 2015, and the club is raising money for a $2,000,000 Tom Adams Training Center, named for the former Florida Secretary of State who brought rowing to Sebastian (Sebastian River Rowing). The Sebastian River Rowing facility page still presents that building as a fundraising goal.

The club runs four tracks: recreational middle school, a competitive under-15 crew, high school sweep and sculling, and adult rowing. For fall 2026 it set the high school season to open on Aug. 15 at Canal 54 and middle school rowing on Sept. 1, with high school racing building toward the Florida state championships in April (Sebastian River Rowing). Lightning within 15 miles clears the water, a rule that matters on an open canal west of Sebastian in summer storm season.

Students enrolled at Sebastian River High can play, and Florida law also opens Sharks tryouts to eligible home education, charter and private school students who meet the 2.0 grade point average rule.

Section 1006.15 of the Florida Statutes defines an eligible student to include home education, charter school, private school, Florida Virtual School and traditional public school students, and requires a grade point average of 2.0 or above on a 4.0 scale (Florida Statutes 1006.15). The district applies the same idea to its own magnet schools: when Pelican Island Elementary in Sebastian became a classical K-8 magnet, district documents said its middle grades would have no teams, gym or field and its students could play at their zoned neighborhood school (TCPalm).

The pool of Sharks grew in 2026. With the Vero Beach freshman center closed, CBS12 reported on Aug. 10, 2026 that all incoming ninth graders in Indian River County attend either Sebastian River High or Vero Beach High (CBS12). Last verified: October 11, 2026, against the sources linked on this page.