By Kyle Coppola
Lake Minneola Introduces New Primary and Secondary School Logo
MINNEOLA – When the Lake Minneola High School football season kicks off later this month, it will do so with a new coach and a new secondary logo.
Coach Mike McGlynn, a retired eight-year professional player in the NFL, is starting his first season with the Hawks as their head football coach. To signify the fresh start, fans will see a fresh new look with the use of a secondary team logo. The original Hawk logo is here to stay, but that image will now be joined by a second image featuring an M for Minneola with hawk wings attached.
Secondary logos are typically simple in design while still visually connected to the primary logo, allowing for more flexibility in their usage. All of the images are created to heighten team spirit, which Coach McGlynn and the players are hoping Hawks fans will bring to every game this year.
While he is looking to build a strong, winning team at Lake Minneola, McGlynn said his main goal is the development of the players. “My goal is to utilize the game of football as a vehicle to develop and educate the next generation of young men towards achieving their goals,” he said shortly after being hired. “I am excited to be named head football coach at Lake Minneola High School and look forward to serving the Minneola community.”
The Hawks’ first game is at Lake Minneola against Land O’Lakes High School. The Hawks will honor Lake County Sheriff’s Master Deputy Bradley Link, who was killed in the line of duty on Aug. 2, with a moment of silence and a special presentation. Link graduated from Lake Minneola High in 2015.
The full 2024-25 Hawks varsity football schedule is as follows:
- 8/16 – vs. Land O’Lakes
- 8/23 – at Manatee
- 8/30 – at Vanguard
- 9/6 – at Haines City
- 9/20 – vs. Lake GIbson
- 9/27 – vs. Davenport
- 10/4 – vs. South Sumter
- 10/11 – at Forest
- 10/18 – vs. Horizon
- 10/25 – at South Lake
- 11/1 – at Madison County
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.
