Broward boys tennis first team, second team, honorable mention and coach of the year

FIRST TEAM

Blake Edwards, St. Thomas Aquinas senior: Team captain was district and regional champion and led Raiders to state runner-up finish at state; finished 13-4 in singles and 12-3 in doubles; clinched final match win to send the team to state. Loyola University (Maryland) commit.

Daniel Naylor, American Heritage senior: The Emory commit and four-year team captain won the Class 2A individual district title; team MVP all four years was most proud of beating rival Pine Crest during the season; also plays pickleball.

Dennis Oliveira Jr., Stoneman Douglas junior: District champion finished the year at 9-3 No. 1 singles and 6-2 in doubles; qualified for the state tournament – lost in quarters in singles and the finals in doubles.

Quentin Gabler, Somerset Academy junior: Won districts and reached the Class 2A individual semifinals with an 11-3 record; teamed with Brandon Lee to win district and reach the state semifinals.

Sebastian Mendoza, Cypress Bay senior: The Babson College commit finished 14-1 in singles and 7-1 in doubles; was undefeated in regular-season play the last two seasons and helped the Lightning team reach the state tournament both years; called finishing state runner-up as team a “major achievement.”

Doubles

Koray Abramson/Ashwin Chawla, Pine Crest freshman/junior: Won Class 1A overall state doubles championship, becoming just the third team in school history to do so.

Dennis Oliveira Jr./Danny Platovsky, Stoneman Douglas junior/junior: Reached state doubles final by winning three tiebreakers.

SECOND TEAM

Koray Abramson, Pine Crest freshman

Greg Chapman, American Heritage junior

Alessandro Melotti, University School junior

Leandro Perez, West Broward junior

Conor Reeser, St. Thomas Aquinas sophomore

Doubles

Blake Edwards/Conor Reeser, St. Thomas Aquinas senior/sophomore

Quentin Gabler/Brandon Lee, Somerset Academy junior/junior

HONORABLE MENTION

American Heritage: Danila Dembrowski

Archbishop McCarthy: Christian Branker, Nicholas Smith

Calvary Christian: Lucas Bastidas, Brady Bonic

Cardinal Gibbons: Cal Horevitz, Richard Lin

Coral Springs Charter: Gautam Arun, Santiago Garcia Castillo, Christian Silva

Cooper City: Luke Maretti

Cypress Bay: Pablo Alunni, Aaraay Bansal, Jayden Bodden

David Posnak: Ilan Grosman

Deerfield Beach: Mycola Khotenko

Everglades: Robert Beautilus

North Broward Prep: Jacob Hartman

Pembroke Pines Charter: Santiago Delgado

Pine Crest: Adrian Baerga-Torres

Pompano Beach: David Maciejowski

St. Thomas Aquinas: Lucca Freitas, Caio Lira, Philip Paun

Somerset Academy: Franklin Chen

South Broward: Juan Rocha

University School: Luke Salman

West Broward: Leandro Perez

Western: Jack Helmowitz

Westminster Academy: Leo Aguiar, Trey Seeman

COACH OF THE YEAR

Michael Brunt, Cypress Bay: Led Lightning to an undefeated regular season and finished as Class 4A state runner-up, falling to Doral Academy 4-2. “I’m most proud of the success of the entire team. We had several younger players make significant progress from last year, not only becoming team members but also being highly competitive among themselves.”