Concepcion Ledezma joins the Riverbend News team, contributing as a freelance sportswriter

Concepcion Ledezma is currently in his second year teaching English at Hamilton County High School, his 26th overall in the Florida public school system (16 of them in Broward County). Besides teaching primarily 11th and 12th graders, he also coaches the Trojans' cross country team. After earning his B.A. in journalism from the University of Kentucky in 1986, Ledezma got his first job as a full-time sportswriter for the (then-daily) Boca Raton News before moving on to the South Dade News Leader in Homestead. The two newspaper stints lasted three years before "stumbling" into teaching via a demand for coaches in high school soccer, a sport he played as a youth. He played two seasons of