March 11, 2024
Lake Minneola Football Player Braylon Knauth Signs Commitment with The Citadel
By Kyle Coppola
Lake Minneola Football Player Braylon Knauth Signs Commitment with The Citadel
Lake Minneola football star Braylon Knauth has signed with The Citadel for the 2024 football season. The standout wide receiver had a tremendous year. Knauth would go on to catch 12 touchdowns on the season and was the only wide receiver on the team with over 1,000 yards, finishing the year with 1,253 total yards. Knauth averaged around 16.7 yards per catch. He and fellow quarterback Jackson Hughes, who recently committed to Kaiser University in Florida, were virtually unstoppable at points during the season.
(Braylon Knauth left sits with Iowa Cyclone Commit Quentin Taylor in the middle and Jonah Cali right who is committed to Navy. All three of these players made a terrific impace on the Lake Minneola program. Photo Credit – Lo Wood)
Knauth’s ability to make yards after contact is a huge advantage to his game. During Knauth’s junior year, he caught 9 touchdowns and had 862 yards. So, in the final two years of his high school career, Knauth had over 2,000 yards receiving. That is something that The Citadel will be happy to have on their roster.
The Citadel plays in the FCS, which is NCAA Division 1 just below FBS. They will be playing against teams such as Mercer, Furman, Samford, Chattanooga, and Clemson during the 2024 season.
This is a huge opportunity for Braylon Knauth, who we know is one of the elite wide receivers in Central Florida. He will now get the opportunity to showcase those skills against some of the best competition in football at the FCS level. Knauth is a current AVID student and also a member of the boys’ weightlifting and track team, which he is currently in.
Congratulations to Braylon Knauth. We look forward to seeing him play for The Citadel in 2024!
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.
