January 19, 2024
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Committee Honors 2024 Scholarship Recipients
By Kyle Coppola
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Committee Honors 2024 Scholarship Recipients
Local students were honored at the recent Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Committee as they named the recipients of the 2024 scholarship. Each recipient was awarded a $4,000 scholarship. The schools that were honored included Leesburg High School, Tavares High School, The Villages Charter School, Wildwood Middle High School and Lake Weir High School.
The recipients are as followed:
Leesburg High School
Ria Patel
Jordan Simpson
Logan Thompson
Jacob Wittman
Tavares High School
Hana Mannuthoduvil
Wildwood Middle High School
AmandaLesly Miranda
Esly Villeda
Temarionte Williams
Kamarius Worthen
The Villages Charter School
Baily Burton
Gianna DiMaggio
Lake Weir High School
Michael Gonzalez-Murphy
Ian Simons Rodriguez
Paityn Tilney
Congratulations to all the recipients!
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.
