By Kyle Coppola
South Lake High School Boys Basketball Celebrates Senior Night
South Lake High School’s boys varsity basketball team celebrated their senior night on Thursday with a 77-71 win against Hope Academy. The win moved South Lake to 13-10 overall on the season. South Lake has the most senior’s on their team out of any Lake County program and honored nine seniors. The list of players honored is below:
#1 Jaiden Castillo
#2 Mikey Mcleod
#4 Alijah Curry
#15 Ryan Clark
#20 Jamir Charles
#22 Kevens Charles
#23 Jean Casimir
#34 Thalyson Viana
Braden White
Congratulations to all of the seniors. We wish them the best of luck in the District Tournament!
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.