March 11, 2024
Local Mount Dora Student Brayan Sanchez Escobar Artwork Selected for 71st Annual Yacht Club Regatta
By Kyle Coppola
Local Mount Dora Student Brayan Sanchez Escobar Artwork Selected for 71st Annual Yacht Club Regatta
Congratulations to Mount Dora High School student Brayan Sanchez Escobar who recently had his artwork selected by the Mount Dora Yacht Club Regatta for the 2024 Annual Regatta.
Along with Brayan’s artwork being selected for the Regatta he was presented with a $1,000 scholarship during his art class last week. Brayan’s artwork will be featured around town on post cards, the Regatta program, and Regatta shirts.
(The artwork that will be present on the shirts and post cards for the 2024 Regatta.)
Mount Dora High School says “Thank you to the Mount Dora Yacht Club Regatta for your support of Mount Dora High School and the arts program.” This is exciting as not only does artwork of a student get presented to the greater public but that the student received a scholarship.
(Brayan was presented with a scholarship for $1,000 for his contributions to the Regatta.)
The Mount Dora Yacht Club has been hosting an annual Regatta since 1913. This year makrs the 71st annual Regatta which will be held on March 25th & 26th. Two days orf racing with dinner, live music, and great camaraderie on the clubhouse grounds.
(Photo Credit Mount Dora Yacht Club.)
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.
