
By Kyle Coppola
Lake & Sumter Style’s All-Area Boys Basketball

The area’s top talent took the floor all season long, delivering standout performances, big moments and consistent production. Here are this year’s All-Area Boys Basketball selections, recognizing the players who made the biggest impact across the region.

1st Team All-Area
Leesburg High School – Angelo Moton – Senior
South Lake High – Dwayne Foreman III – Junior
South Lake High – Isaiah Pina – Senior
Wildwood – Tico Smith – Sophomore
Wildwood – John Miller – Senior
The Villages – Herly Brutus – Senior
The Villages – Aaron Britt Jr. – Junior
The Villages – Ethan Bevis – Senior
The Villages – Jomar Bernard – Junior
The Villages – Jared Thompson – Senior
Hope Academy – Nehemiah Raphael – Senior
Mount Dora Christian Academy – DeAndre Curate – Senior
Eustis High – Eric Glover – Senior
Umatilla High – Ray Jenkins – Senior
Lake Minneola High – Joshua Joehill
2nd Team All-Area
Umatilla High – Bryce Norflee – Junior
Umatilla High – Shawn Donovan – Senior
Leesburg High – Xavier Campbell – Junior
The Villages – Camryn Lee – Freshman
The Villages – Miles Simpson – Sophomore
The Villages – Kymani Weathers – Senior
The Villages – Zayden Garcia – Freshman
Wildwood – Demarius Knight – Sophomore
Wildwood – Azyron Johnson – Senior
South Lake High – Austin Cruz – Sophomore
East Ridge High – Isayah Smith – Senior
Mount Dora Christian Academy – Eli Middleton – Senior
Tavares High – Landon Samuels – Sophomore
Eustis High – Kevin Daniels – Junior
Eustis High – Nyree Scarlett – Junior

Honorable Mentions
Umatilla High – Luke Jabbour – Junior
Eustis High – Brandon Sutton – Senior
Eustis High – Jaiden Palma – Senior
Eustis High – Tyler Green – Junior
Tavares High – Steven King – Senior
Tavares High – Kylan Doster – Senior
Mount Dora High – Hunter Straughan-Clay – Senior
Mount Dora Christian Academy – Drew Stratford – Freshman
Mount Dora Christian Academy – TJ McCormick – Junior
First Academy-Leesburg – Aidan Jezowski – Senior
First Academy-Leesburg – Logan Stalvey – Senior
First Academy Leesburg – Tzuri Smith – Sophomore
Leesburg High – Noah Ford – Senior
Leesburg High – Trike Morris – Junior
Lake Minneola High – Blake Kendrick – Junior
Lake Minneola High – Cam’ron Morganti – Junior
South Lake High – Jamari Brissett – Junior
South Lake High – Nathaniel Boyer – Junior
East Ridge High – Bryce Olson – Senior
East Ridge High – Kaleb Jernigan – Senior
East Ridge High – Nathan Watkins – Sophomore
East Ridge High – Tyrell Thomas – Senior
Hope Academy – Xavier Shine – Senior
Note – (Only players who play in the FHSAA are considered for the Lake And Sumter Style Magazine All-Area Teams. Players who compete for National teams/clubs or play for post high school basketball academies are not listed in the All-Area Boys Basketball List.)
Note – (No online statistics are available for the South Sumter High Raiders Boys Basketball team. Only teams that maintain and submit official statistics online (MaxPreps) are considered for the All-Area team selections. Any players without accessible online statistics are therefore not eligible for consideration.)
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.



































