August 8, 2024
Lake Minneola High Students CiCi Peroni and Augustine Wladyczka Medal At Junior Olympics
By Kyle Coppola
Lake Minneola High Students CiCi Peroni and Augustine Wladyczka Medal At Junior Olympics
Clermont, Fla. — Lake Minneola High student-athletes Cecilia “CiCi” Peroni and Augustine Wladyczka returned home with Junior Olympic medals after an outstanding performance at the national tournament.
(CiCi Peroni won gold at the Junior Olympics.)
Peroni, competing with the 16U girls’ team, helped secure a gold medal. Wladyczka, representing the 16U boys’ team, played a key role in earning a silver medal, This is a big accomplishment for these two Lake County athletes and we are so proud of them.
These accomplishments highlight the growing prominence of water polo in Lake County. Currently no school high school’s in Lake County offer the sport of water polo. However the Orlando Thunder Water Polo Club which relocated to the National Training Center in Clermont has grown interest in the sport. Hopefully these Junior olympic athletes continue to grow the sport even further.
(Augustine is just 15 years old and has a 4.6 GPA.)
Congratulations to both these rising student-athletes. Perhaps we will see them in LA for the 2028 Olympic games in the near future!
Kyle Coppola was born in Newton, Massachusetts and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Curry College in 2016. After traveling to Florida on a family vacation, he decided he could not get enough of the warm weather and made the move from snowy Massachusetts to central Florida 8 years ago.
For the last decade Kyle has gained valuable experience in social media content creation, marketing and sales, writing, video production, sports announcing and even broadcasting for local radio stations, such as FM 102.9 in The Villages and FM 91.5 in Massachusetts. Every year he volunteers at The Villages Charter High School as a play-by-play sports announcer for the football games as well as a public address announcer for the basketball games, including the annual Battle at The Villages Tournament.
Outside the office Kyle is a husband and father to two beautiful girls along with their cat. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, travel, play golf and swim. He is also a huge sports junkie and even bigger motorsports fan and loves to attend racing events when he can.
