By Kyle Coppola
East Ridge High Girls Weightlifting Win District Championship
For the second time in school history the East Ridge Lady Knights won a district championship. It is now the second year in a row that they have accomplished this. East Ridge would finish first with West Orange in second and Dr. Phillips taking 3rd place. Other Lake County schools included Lake Minneola finishing 5th and South Lake finishing 6th.
East Ridge got big scores from Adyson Liddick, Neelyanis Lugo, Anya Kalinin, Kara Aiello, Mahalia Sharpe, Briana Santos, Vivian Hunter and Francesca Como to take first palce in Traditional by just 5 points in front of West Orange.
Meanwhile in the Olympic class it was a complete run away as East Ridge would win by over 22 points against Lake Minneola who would take 2nd place. In the 110 pound weight class Aaliyah Days would take first place while the Unlimited class was dominated by Briana, Santos.
Congratulations to all the lifters and to East Ridge for capturing the district championship in both traditional and olympic weightlifting.
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.
