By Kyle Coppola
South Lake Aquatic Team Makes Huge Splash At Ralph Crocker Classic
The South Lake High School Aquatic team made a huge splash at the Ralph Crocker Classic Swim meet in Auburn on January 12th-15th! South Lake competed against 25 other teams from six states and experienced massive time drops across both the men’s and women’s teams!
Additionally, the SLAC had five Florida age group qualifiers (Ismail Elamari, Bella Estep, Michaela Snook, Caleb Stromberg and Jackson Kelly.)
(The South Lake Aquatic Team competed at Auburn and took a group photo together.)
They also had 1 new Florida Senior Championship qualifier – Katon Schmidt. They had 1 new USA Swimming South Sectionals Qualifier – Henry Carlisle.
The winners of the event in Auburn, were Rory Connelly in the Senior 200 Free and 100 Fly. Blake Agamez 10 and under in the 50 Fly. Rory Connelly set a South Lake team record in the 15–16-year-old 50 Free, 200 Free, and 400 Individual Medley. Blake Agamez set a team record in the 10 and under 50 Fly.
This is amazing and we are so happy to see this team’s success. Way to represent Lake County!
Photos Provided By – Julia Flohr
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.
