Rodney PagePreps Reporter
I was born in Iowa City, Iowa but moved to Florida when I was three, which technically makes me a Floridian. I grew up in Pinellas Park and Clearwater and attended Pinellas Park High School. The son of a physical education teacher and avid sports fan, I tried just about everything as a kid. I played golf, racquetball, tennis, fished, water skied and even played middle school football until I got hit trying to make a catch. That doesn’t happen in baseball, so I took that up full time. After graduating from Florida State and working in North Carolina for three years, I ended up back in St. Petersburg and started working part-time for the Times. I've been there ever since. I've worked as an editorial assistant, covered preps, written local feature stories, covered golf (and helped create a local golf website), outdoors, soccer, tennis and helped when needed with our local professional teams. In short, I've tried to be the utility infielder on a very talented team. I'm also the father of two kids who ended up playing soccer, but I’m still not sure what offsides is.
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![John Astrab, 37, of Clearwater chips onto the 18th hole of the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook on Monday in Palm Harbor. With the Valspar Tournament shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, golfers had the unique opportunity to play on a PGA Tour-ready course.](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 16 9"/%3E "John Astrab, 37, of Clearwater chips onto the 18th hole of the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook on Monday in Palm Harbor. With the Valspar Tournament shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, golfers had the unique opportunity to play on a PGA Tour-ready course.")