- October 21, 2024
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Flagler Palm Coast Athletes of the Year Colby Cronk and Christina Borgmann. Courtesy photo
FPC Principal Bobby Bossardet presents Savannah O'Grady with the Girls Soccer Principal's Award. O'Grady also won the Spirit of Flagler Award. Courtesy photo
Class 4A state shot put champ Colby Cronk, with FPC Principal Bobby Bossardet and Assistant Principal Stacia Collier, holds up his Male Athlete of the Year award. Courtesy photo
State champ Christina Borgmann was named FPC's Female Athlete of the Year. Courtesy photo
Wrestling coach David Bossardet (left) was named FPC Coach of the Year. Brandon Calidonio (right) won the Principal's Award for boys wrestling. Courtesy photo
Observer photojournalist Michele Meyers (left), Mainland track parent Joseph Nixon and team mom Ariel Brown were honored for their support of the Buccaneers' track and field team by coaches Terry Anthony, Ebony Harris and Vern Conaway. Courtesy photo
State champions Colby Cronk and Christina Borgmann were named Flagler Palm Coast High School’s Male and Female Athletes of the Year at the Bulldogs’ Athletics Awards Show on May 21 at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center.
Cronk won the Class 4A state shot put championship days earlier. He also was state runner-up in discus. Cronk’s primary sport is football. The defensive end had 27 tackles for loss and 12 sacks last season. He has committed to North Carolina State University.
Borgmann won the 125-pound championship at the girls state wrestling tournament. As a sophomore, Borgmann placed second at state. Both Cronk and Borgmann were juniors and will have a chance to defend their championships in the upcoming school year.
The Bulldogs’ other big award winners were senior soccer player Savannah O’Grady, who won the Spirit of Flagler Award, and wrestling coach David Bossardet, who won FPC’s Coach of the Year award.
O’Grady, who signed a soccer scholarship with Eastern Florida State College, led her team with 11 goals her senior season, although she played in just eight games before suffering an ACL tear. Despite the injury, O’Grady continued to be a captain and leader of the team the rest of the season, encouraging and pushing her teammates.
She never missed a game, even attending the district championship a day after undergoing reconstructive knee surgery.
“I took my pain meds and made my way over (to Daytona State College from Orlando),” she said in March. “I wouldn’t have missed it for nothing.”
Bossardet’s girls wrestling team placed second at state with Borgmann and Joslyn Johnson winning state titles. Four girls and four boys won medals at the state championships.
Here are the Principal’s Award winners for each sport:
Athletic Training: Heather Mari Hall Alcala
Baseball: Connor May
Boys Basketball: Caumarion Lang
Girls Basketball: Kameran Gordon
Beach Volleyball: McKenna Kirshy
Boys Bowling: Jeremy Batt
Girls Bowling: Emma Pezzullo
Competitive Cheerleading: Bekken Mills
Boys Cross Country: Braedyn Wormeck
Girls Cross Country: Arianna Slaughter
Flag Football: Ester Vitalen
Football: Jeremiah Cange
Boys Golf: Wynter Dodson
Girls Golf: Carmella Carlisi
Boys Lacrosse: Jordan Gales
Girls Lacrosse: Chloe Long
Boys Soccer: Chase Magee
Girls Soccer: Savanna O’Grady
Softball: Alexis Laura
Boys Swimming: Loris Eolyan
Girls Swimming: Julia Kurdziel
Boys Tennis: Andrew Shkotkin
Girls Tennis: Trista Rife
Boys Track & Field: Colby Cronk
Girls Track & Field: Summer Barnes
Girls Volleyball: Lily Puritis
Boys Weightlifting: Nick Groth
Girls Weightlifting: Chloe Long
Boys Wrestling: Brandon Calidonio
Girls Wrestling: Alexa Calidonio
FPC had another athletic celebration before the end of the school year as 10 athletes signed national letters of intent to continue their athletic careers in college. The signees were:
Sidney Vinnick: Cheerleading (Florida Atlantic University)
Alyssia Ray: Cheerleading (Austin Peay University))
Gwen Vargas: Lacrosse (St. Thomas University)
Toryion Stallings: Wrestling (Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College)
Kelton Howard: Wrestling (Neosho Community College)
Lily Puritis: Volleyball (Coker University)
Brandon Calidonio: Lacrosse (Wingate University)
Hayden Herndon: Cross Country (Daytona State College)
Kaitlyn Holley: Soccer (Webber International University)
Ethan Laupepa: Wrestling (Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College)
Mainland's track and field coaches recently honored Observer photojournalist Michele Meyers along with most enthusiastic parent Joseph Nixon and team mom Ariel Brown for their contributions to the team.
Lindsey Stewart is FPC's new volleyball coach. Stewart played volleyball at Bryan College and Webber International University. She coached Power Volleyball and OTVA Volleyball clubs. She will also teach social studies at the school.
Matanzas rising junior Rylan Miller has been named the top volleyball libero in Florida by Prep Dig.
Email Associate Editor Brent Woronoff at [email protected]
