February 2, 2024
Mount Dora Christian Academy Girls Soccer Team Wins District Championship
By Kyle Coppola
Mount Dora Christian Academy Girls Soccer Team Wins District Championship
The Mount Dora Christian Academy Lady Bulldogs won the Class 2A District 4 Championship last night in a double overtime thriller! The Lady Bulldogs were able to perservere through adversity and ended up with a 2-1 victory!
The Lady Bulldogs are now 14 – 3 this season. The Lady Bulldogs are a young team. Their best players are sophomore’s Riley Conlan with 6 goals and Katie Bayly with 9 goals. They also have a terrific freshman in Lana Boudreau who has impressed this season with 6 goals. Junior Madi Tweedie leads the team in assists.
MDCA led the game in the first half 1-0 before Academy at the Lakes would even the score in the second half setting up the first overtime. No goals were scored but in the second overtime, MDCA found a way to get it done.
As far as goaltending goes, Emmi Bowman has been on her game recently as has the defense! In the last nine games, Bowman has only given up 6 goals. MDCA will now wait to see where they are ranked in the FHSAA Class 2A Playoffs and who they will be facing off against.
For now, coach Clayton McDaniel will get to enjoy this win with his girls but they understand the job is not finished. The FHSAA Playoff brackets will be released this weekend.
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.
