{"id":273346,"date":"2026-05-16T11:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:21:14","slug":"community-honors-florida-teen-colton-remsburg-13-at-youth-sports-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273346\/","title":{"rendered":"Community honors Florida teen Colton Remsburg, 13, at youth sports game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

The Lake Nona community gathered to honor the memory of 13-year-old Colton Remsburg, a flag football player who died days after colliding with a pickup truck while riding an e-scooter.<\/p>\n

Teammates remembered Remsburg as an energetic and humorous friend who remains with them in spirit.<\/p>\n

Residents are now pushing for a new road safety movement to better protect children riding e-scooters and e-bikes throughout the area.<\/p>\n

LAKE NONA, Fla. – The Lake Nona community is rallying together in memory of a teen flag football player, Colton Remsburg, whose life was taken too soon.<\/p>\n

Now, as the boy’s teammates took the field Friday night, they take comfort in knowing that Colton is there with them in spirit.<\/p>\n

What we know<\/p>\n

Colton Remsburg, 13, died days after being hospitalized in critical condition following a crash with a pickup truck<\/a>. Colton was riding an e-scooter at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n

Authorities haven’t said what led to the crash, but Florida Highway Patrol confirmed the driver remained at the scene.<\/p>\n

After days in the hospital, Colton died.<\/p>\n

Colton was remembered as an energetic and kind person who was passionate about fishing and sports. He also played flag football.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u2018There in spirit’<\/p>\n

At a flag football game, May 15, the community gathered at Heroes Community Park for a game in remembrance of Colton \u2013 a place Colton spent much of his time.<\/p>\n

“He holds a place in my heart,” a teammate told Winn.<\/p>\n

Others remembered Colton’s “crazy” jokes.<\/p>\n

“To us, that’s how he kept a smile on our face, no matter what,” another teammate said.<\/p>\n

The team was determined to win their game in honor of Colton.<\/p>\n

Fighting for change<\/p>\n

What’s next<\/p>\n

The tragedy of Colton’s death isn’t something the community will forget.<\/p>\n

Now, they’re pushing for safer roads for kids riding e-scooters and e-bikes, Winn reported.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to start a movement to make the change that pretty much everyone I’ve talked to knows is needed, but it just hasn’t been done,” Jason Kleiner, president of Lake Nona Youth Sports, said.<\/p>\n

The Source<\/p>\n

Information in this story was gathered from Florida Highway Patrol and reporting by FOX 35’s Chancelor Winn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The Lake Nona community gathered to honor the memory of 13-year-old Colton Remsburg, a flag football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116795,28,30,618,29,5773,116889],"class_list":["post-273346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-colton-remsburg","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-florida-news","tag-lake-nona","tag-remsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}