April 21, 2025
Tavares High Senior Softball Pitcher Emmy Lee Passes 300 Career Strikeouts
By Kyle Coppola
Tavares High Senior Softball Pitcher Emmy Lee Passes 300 Career Strikeouts
TAVARES, Fla. — Tavares High School ace Emmersyn “Emmy” Lee has surpassed 330 career strikeouts in a dominant 18-0 win over Leesburg.
Lee, a senior, struck out six batters in the shutout to bring her season total to 107 and her career total to 332. Emmy been a consistent force for the Bulldogs, anchoring the team with her presence in the circle and proving nearly untouchable throughout the season. When this young lady is on she is on fire and it’s the reason she will be pitching collegiately at Lake-Sumter State College in 2026.
Through 83.2 innings pitched this year, Lee boasts a 2.09 ERA, having allowed only 25 earned runs. Her combination of control, movement, and velocity has kept opposing lineups guessing all season long and that’s something head coach Valarie Neu has been adament about.
Tavares’ defense backed Lee with a clean game behind her, and the bats came alive in support, pushing across 18 runs to seal the victory early. In fact Emmy Lee had one of her best performances of the year at the playe with 2 hits and 4 RBIs along with 4 runs scored. Emma Pattee scored 4 runs and also had 4 RBI’s off of 3 hits while Kayla Enix had an incredible 5 RBI’s 4 hits and scored2 runs.
(Emmy recently celebrated senior night. Tavares High is on a hot streak at the moment. They are looking the best they have coming down the home stretch of the regular season.)
With the postseason approaching, Lee’s performance has the Bulldogs believing they can make a deep run and contend for a distrct championship next week.
She gives Tavares a chance to win every single night she is on the mound and she’s looking as good as she has all season which is dangerous for opposing teams.
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.
