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Top High School Seniors Recognized At Senior Scholar Banquet
May 11, 2016
The top 213 senior student athletes from Escambia and Santa Rosa counties took part in a dinner and scholarship recognition program Tuesday night at Olive Baptist Church.
Tori Bindi from Gulf Breeze High and Nathan Andreo from Pace won the overall girls and male scholarships. The Pensacola Sports Foundation awarded these two individuals each with a $4,000 scholarship. Other awardees were Callan Taylor from Navarre (University of West Florida Scholarship), Kaci VanVoorhis from Pace and Cortavis Watts from Washington (Gary McAdams Memorial Scholarship), Trace Penton from Tate and Eliza Eligio from Pensacola High (Whataburger Scholarship), Chloe Dawson from Milton (Dr. Alec Kessler Memorial Scholarship), and Jerry Pollard, Pine Forest football coach and athletic director, won the RADM Kenneth L Shugart Jr. Award for his service and dedication to the community, sports, and youth.
Additionally, Pensacola State College awarded each individual sport winner with a scholarship. Newly added this year are scholarships awarded for both men’s and women’s lacrosse.
The individual sport winners are:
- Baseball — Evan Floyd, Pensacola Catholic
- Girls Basketball — Faithe Franklin, West Florida
- Boys Basketball — Bradley Proctor, Gulf Breeze
- Cheerleading — Brooke Vincent, Tate
- Boys Cross Country — Mitchell Brooks, West Florida
- Girls Cross Country — Jennifer Sublett, West Florida
- Football — Michael Sandle, Navarre
- Girls Golf — Abigail Herrmann, Pensacola Catholic
- Boys Golf — Michael Mann, Pensacola Catholic
- Boys Lacrosse — Hayden Broussard, Pensacola Catholic
- Girls Lacrosse — Brianna Sekul, Gulf Breeze
- Boys Soccer — Eric Masterson, Pensacola Catholic
- Girls Soccer — Gabrielle Dosev, Pensacola Catholic
- Softball — Callan Taylor, Navarre
- Boys Swimming — Michael Johnson, Pensacola High
- Girls Swimming — Peyton Parra, Washington
- Boys Tennis — Daniell Sullivan, Pensacola Catholic
- Girls Tennis — Emily Dawson, Washington
- Boys Track — Javen Jackson, West Florida Tech
- Girls Track — Lynn Arthur, West Florida Tech
- Volleyball — Kiley Brady, Pensacola Catholic
- Boys Weightlifting — Adrian Acevedo, Pace
- Girls Weightlifting — Olivia Brahms, Navarre
- Wrestling — Travis Thompson, Pace
The schools nominate their senior athletes for each sport and submit the paperwork to Pensacola Sports. A selection committee made of educators, community leaders, and Pensacola Sports board members reviews the anonymous applications and select the best person’s credentials for each sport. Those are the individual sport winners. Then they select the overall male and female winners from the individual sport winners.
Pictured top: Brooke Vincent of Tate High School, Pensacola Sports cheerleading award winner. Pictured below: TV personality Dan Shugart presents the award named for his father, the RADM Kenneth L Shugart Jr. Award, to Jerry Pollard, Pine Forest football coach and athletic director. Pictured: Northview athletes Moriah McGahan, Bethany Reynolds, Coach Natalie Nall, Haylee Weaver and Savanna Roux at Tuesday night’s Pensacola Sports banquet at Olive Baptist Church. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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