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2018 Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame inductees

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2018 Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame inductees

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The Palm Beach County Sports Commission has announced the 2018 inductees into the Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame. The six ladies and men can be commemorated at the feast Sunday, March 25, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Cocktails and a silent public sale will start at five p.M. And the ceremonial dinner and awards ceremony will start at 6 p.M. Awards finalists, commemorated for their accomplishments in 2017, consist of:

High School Athlete of the Year (girl): Ally Costa, Jupiter, softball; Madeline Furtado, King’s Academy, volleyball; LeeAnn Hewitt, Wellington, weightlifting

High School Athlete of the Year (male): Akeem Dent, Palm Beach Central, football; Trent Frazier, Wellington, basketball; Jarrett Jackson, Palm Beach Gardens, football

Amateur Athlete of the Year: Lamar Jackson, Louisville, soccer; Alex Pano, Lake Worth, golf; Devin Singletary, FAU, soccer

Andrews-Ceravolo High School Coach of the Year: Jude Blessington, Forest Hill, soccer; Mark Boretti, Wellington, softball; Frank Torre, Dwyer, baseball.

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Also commemorated is Lane Kiffin, who led Florida Atlantic to an eleven-3 file and Conference USA championship in his first season as the train of the Owls, as Coach of the Year.

2018 INDUCTION CLASS

Geraldine “Jeri” Athey (posthumously)

Athey becomes one of the pinnacle swimming and diving coaches for extra than 3 a long time. She coached at several high schools, consisting of Palm Beach Gardens, Riviera Beach, Cardinal Newman, North Shore, and Forest Hill, growing nation champions and finalists. Also blanketed have been the North Palm Beach diving crew (her chartered crew) and different academies and schools such as St. Andrews of Boca Raton. From 1961 to 1987, Athey served the Florida Gold Coast AAU as senior girls’ diving chairman, vice president, president, secretary, treasurer, and chairman of registration and Junior Olympic Diving. Nationally, she has served on regulations, finance (Chairman), and hospitality committees.

She became a delegate to all AAU and U.S. Diving country-wide conventions. She turned into also appearing secretary to country-wide chairmen at early conferences and was elected co-chairman of the National Junior Olympics Committee. She ran the scoring and entries desk at the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s International Diving Meet for decades and helped with the Ted Keller Annual Age-Group Diving Meet at the Hall of Fame. She changed into train/supervisor of U.S. Age-institution groups competing in Winnipeg, Canada (1977), Stuttgart, Germany (1979), and the National Sports Festival (1981) in Syracuse, N.Y. Ten years after officially retiring at age 80, she commenced coaching her 0.33 era of divers inside her own family this summertime. She turned into commemorated by the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2003.

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Robert D’Angio (posthumously)

Coached football and baseball in Palm Beach County colleges for more than two decades. Baseball teaches at Conniston Junior High School and assistant football and baseball coach at St. Ann’s High School. Greatest success got here at Forest Hill High School, where his teams compiled a 70-6 report, prevailing 4 Suncoast Conference titles in the Nineteen Sixties. In the study room, he acquired a Master Teaching Award from Palm Beach Community College and the Freedom Foundation Medal for the great teaching of American Democracy.

Larry Kissner

At Cardinal Newman High School, Larry Kissner changed into a dominant lineman that played each offense and protection for the duration of his high faculty profession and lettered 10 instances in football, song, and wrestling. His power and electricity, coupled with great technique, created a devastating blocker and crushing tackler. He changed into decided on the 1978 Athlete of the Year in soccer for Florida and began for the South inside the All-Star Game. He turned into a high school All-American, changed into named to Newman’s fiftieth Anniversary crew, and named one of the Top 100 Players from Palm Beach County. Larry attended the University of Notre Dame on a soccer scholarship and persevered his multi-recreation participation with lettering in football and wrestling. He earned Notre Dame’s Herring Award as the maximum progressed participant and commenced at each protect and middle during his senior 12 months.

David Pressly

David played in each match in his 4-year profession at the University of Florida, along with 4 SEC tournaments and 3 NCAA Championships, going 81-15 in singles and 69-21 in doubles. He changed into All-SEC all 4 years, 2d crew as a freshman, and the next three years on first crew. Pressly also received 3 SEC titles, No. 6 singles and No. 3 doubles as a freshman and No. 2 singles as a junior. Upon commencement in 1976, he was provided the Doug Belden Athletic Award via the UF Alumni Association given to a graduating senior based on their combination of athletic and educational achievements.

Byron Walker

Byron was inducted into the Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2003. Byron’s professional coaching record is 260 wins and 123 loses, which is twelfth all-time in Florida, and he is currently 4th amongst active coaches in wins. He compiled 99 wins inside the ’80s whilst at Glades Day School and received 3 nation titles in 1980, 1982, and 1986. Byron also seemed in the national championship game seven directly years (1982-1988). His file at Glades Day School became 128 wins and forty-seven losses. He also gained state titles as a player at Glades Central High School in 1971 and 1972.

James Watt

Jim Watt, a longtime resident of Palm Beach County, is a graduate of the University of Miami and earned his law diploma from the University of Florida in 1969. Since that time, Jim has been a quintessential member of the community, spending 8 years as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, wherein the sponsored regulation caused the creation of collegiate license plates. In addition, Jim labored with the University of Miami to create a vacation basketball tournament. High schools, at some point in the country, participated in what became a successful holiday event.

He worked with the Palm Beach Auditorium to be the house of that tournament. He joined the board of directors of the Palm Beach County Sports Commission in 1992, served as its president for two years, and is presently an emeritus member. In 1992, he proposed the advent of the Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award, labored diligently with Lou Groza and the Groza family to comfortable the naming rights for the award, which is presented stay at the ESPN College Football Awards Show every yr.

Calvin M. Barker

Typical tv scholar. Problem solver. Writer. Extreme bacon fan. Twitter maven. Music evangelist. Spent a year consulting about salsa in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Spoke at an international conference about lecturing about junk food in New York, NY. Earned praise for promoting robotic shrimp in Phoenix, AZ. Spent 2002-2007 working on catfish in Naples, FL. Spent several months developing yogurt in Orlando, FL. Spent high school summers managing dandruff in Africa.

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