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Top High School Athletes Recognized At Senior Scholar Banquet
May 11, 2018
The top senior student-athletes in each sport from Escambia and Santa Rosa County schools were honored at Pensacola Sport’s 2018 Annual Senior Scholar Athlete Banquet.
Stanley Dorion, Pensacola High School and Ellen Floyd from Catholic, won the overall male and female scholarships, respectively. The Pensacola Sports Foundation awarded each of them a $4,000 scholarship. Other awardees were Luke Racine from Tate High School (University of West Florida Scholarship), Jordan Mann from Milton High School (Gary McAdams Memorial Scholarship), Heidi Vega from Pensacola High School and Matthew Blalock from Tate High School (Whataburger Books Scholarship), Mary Middleton from Pensacola Catholic (Dr. Alec Kessler Memorial Scholarship) and Jacob Adler from Pensacola High ( Papa Jay Memorial Scholarship).
Additionally, Pensacola State College awarded 24 individual sport winners with a scholarship:
- Baseball — Bennett Shell – Pace
- Girls Basketball — Sadie Nix – Gulf Breeze
- Boys Basketball — Luke Stringfellow – Catholic
- Cheerleading — Jescie Roberts – Jay
- Boys Cross Country — Ryan Von Brock – Gulf Breeze
- Girls Cross Country — Ana Rodriguez – Gulf Breeze.
- Football — Darrell Hixon – Navarre
- Girls Golf — Frances McKernan – Catholic
- Boys Golf — Ty Aulger – West Florida High
- Boys Lacrosse — Jake Molina – Gulf Breeze
- Girls Lacrosse — Sara White – Pensacola High
- Boys Soccer — Justin Schubeck – West Florida High
- Girls Soccer — Carleigh Baerresen – Milton
- Softball — Megan Robertson – Milton.
- Boys Swimming — Coulson Barfield – Booker T. Washington
- Girls Swimming — Meghan Doyle – Booker T. Washington
- Boys Tennis — Michael Ennis – Pace
- Girls Tennis — Elizabeth Nowak – Catholic
- Boys Track — Keyshawn Helton – West Florida High
- Girls Track — Gabrielle Fountain – Pine Forest
- Volleyball — Dina Razek – Pensacola High
- Boys Weightlifting — Patrick Richardson – Catholic
- Girls Weightlifting — Haylee Watson – Jay
- Wrestling — Mathew Blalock – Tate
Schools in both Escambia and Santa Rosa nominate their senior athletes for each sport and submit the paperwork to Pensacola Sports. A selection committee made of educators, community leaders, and Pensacola Sports board members reviews the anonymous applications and select the best person’s credentials for each sport. Those are the individual sport winners. Then they select the overall male and female winners from the individual sport winners.
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Congratulations to all. It used to be thought that a jock was a dummy, but the truth is most of your brightest students participate in athletics. Sound minds and sound bodies bode well for this nation. May they all find success at the next level.