March 11, 2025
Groveland’s Destiny Johns Earns American Athletic Conference Honorable Mention for FAU Softball
By Kyle Coppola
Groveland’s Destiny Johns Earns American Athletic Conference Honorable Mention for FAU Softball
BOCA RATON, Fla. – The No. 24 ranked Florida Atlantic softball team has received a weekly honor from the American Athletic Conference, with Destiny Johns from Groveland earning honorable mention. Johns who is a graduate of South Lake High School and is a freshman at FAU, has had an awesome start to the season.
The Owls (24-4) have won an AAC accolade in each of the first four weeks of the 2025 season, two of them coming from a freshman.
(Johns high fives her teammates. She has come out hot out of the gate her freshman year and has been a huge contributor to FAU. Photo Credit – FAU Athletics.)
With a .318 batting average with 27 hits, 25 RBIs, four doubles, two triples, four home runs, and nine walks this season, Johns is having a truly spectacular season. And that was to be expected considering Johns was one of the most dominant players in Lake County over the course of her career.
Johns capped off her senior season last year with a stellar .415 batting average, recording 39 hits, 20 RBIs, 35 runs scored, and 13 stolen bases. Her high school career was defined by both individual brilliance and team success. Johns played a key role in South Lake’s 2022 run to the FHSAA Class 5A State Championship game as a sophomore, where the Eagles narrowly fell to Middleburg 1-0. She helped her team reach the FHSAA Class 5A playoffs the past four years highlighted by a regional semifinal appearance in her junior season and two regional quarterfinals.
(Johns has been stellar at the plate this season. She is among the top freshman batters in the American Athletic Conference. Photo Credit – FAU Athletics.)
She is a fantastic player and she has contributed to the Owls success and top 25 ranking this season. It’s been fun to watch! Keep up the great work Destiny!
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.
