By Kyle Coppola
Eustis’s Running Back Tymir Gaines Transfers to Mount Dora High
Why will Tymir Gaines be one of the best running backs not just in Lake & Sumter County but all of Central Florida in 2024? It’s simple, Gaines is not afraid and plays every down with 110% effort. For 2024 he will play with Mount Dora High.
When you watch film or see him run in person, you understand why Gaines is such an exciting prospect for college scouts. Gaines is one of the most talented running backs due to his ability to read blocks and his speed to produce long average runs.
(Eustis High School Running Back Tymir Gaines runs against the Mount Dora High Defense in 2023. Gaines will now joins the Hurricanes for 2024. Photo Credit – Joe Ott Photography.)
His football IQ is one of the best in the area. When it comes to reading defenses, Gaines just has a natural ability to do it. He finished last season with 934 yards rushing and eight touchdowns. That was only as a sophomore.
Now coming into his junior season, Gaines is perhaps one of the most exciting young prospects in all of Central Florida. The prospect of seeing Gaines play with Jake Sepe who is the quarterback for Mount Dora High will also be very exciting.
(Tymir Gaines runs the ball like a veteran player. He is a great student on and off the field. Photo Credit – Joe Ott Photography.)
But it’s not just his on-field work. Gaines is a model student with a 3.5 GPA. He’s already getting offers from colleges too that see his athletic and academic ability. Current offers include Arkansas Baptist and Florida Central Tech. Those offers will only continue to rise in the coming years.
It’s hard to fathom but Gaines is just coming off his sophomore year. He doesn’t run like a sophomore. He has the speed, senior athletes only dream about. With a 4.4 in the 40-yard dash, Gaines is also putting the work in this off-season. He bench presses 250lbs and is inching closer to putting up 300 pounds in the future.
There’s just so much here to like about Tymir Gaines from the athletic side and the academic side. He will be one of the top talents to keep your eyes on through the summer and headed into an exciting junior year come August.”
Photo Credit – Joe Ott Photography “Fan Zone”
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.
