Tennis
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.”