sorry, don't know how much good advice i can give you. my son is with an 8u travel team from pinellas/pasco county. i don't know much about what's in lakeland.
we did a couple of seasons of rec hockey @ terrace sports in temple terrace and that was about the most stable rec league i've seen, but it still wasn't great, and that was with the little guys. it's also an hour drive for you.
jp igloo has a nice facuility, but i don't know about thier rec leagues (i'm assuming they are good as it seems everything there is done very well) it's an hour away too.
i don't know if there is anything in brandon, although i vaguely recall seeing a travel team from brandon somewhere, so i'm assuming there is something there.
have you looked at the links section on this site? in there there is a "clubs and leagues" section that could help. i was just in there and saw a link to the port st. lucie thunderblades. i've been to thier site before and it's very good. one thing the thunderblades site has is a links section with links to the sites for a lot of the travel teams from florida.
sorry i couldn't help more. good luck.
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by bullyx2 on 04/11/01 06:48 AM.</EM></FONT></P>