RISE OF A NEW MARINER: St. Mary’s back on the sports scene, now as Basilica School, looking to future | Score

“They made that decision in one day,” said former Mary Immaculate School Athletic Director Judd Wise, as he recalled the events — including the sale of the property on the corner of Turman Avenue and Simonton Boulevard — that resulted in the closing of the high school in 1986. “The archdiocese finally got the money they wanted, which was supposed to stay in Key West, but it didn’t and they shut down the high school. They were going to observe everything for a week, but they came in on a Monday, and said, ‘We are shutting the high school down.’”

With the high school also went the storied history of the Mariners’ varsity sports programs, which for decades were competitive with their crosstown rival Conchs, and for roughly a quarter century the Mariners ceased to exist.

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