January 25, 2024
Mount Dora High Wrestling Wins Lake Founders Cup For Third Year In A Row
By Kyle Coppola
Mount Dora High Wrestling Wins Lake Founders Cup For Third Year In A Row
The Mount Dora High School Wrestling team were able to grab a big win at the Lake Founders Cup Wrestling Tournament. Results are as followed and include wrestlers named to the All-Lake County Team.
1st Place: Mount Dora 3-0 (Mount Dora 48 Tavares 30)
2nd Place: Tavares 2-1
3rd Place: South Lake 1-2 (South Lake 42 Leesburg 24)
4th Place: Leesburg 0-3
All-Lake County Team:
106: Cannon Sommer: Freshman (Mount Dora)
113: Jett Harris: Freshman (Tavares)
120: Aden Pierce: Sophomore (South Lake)
126: Zavier Pennington: Senior (Leesburg)
132: Owen O’Neil: Senior (Tavares)
138: Cameron Dillon: Junior (Leesburg)
144: Henry Vasquez: Freshman (Mount Dora)
150: Caron Callahan: Junior (Leesburg)
157: Tony Boyette: Sophomore (Mount Dora)
165: Colton Fickett: Sophomore (Mount Dora)
175: Anthony Dawson: Senior (Mount Dora)
190: Chase Coello: Sophomore (South Lake)
215: Russell Fickett: Senior (Mount Dora)
285: Matthew Council: Senior (Tavares)
Photo Credit – Mount Dora Wrestling
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.
