Category: All-County Athletes

This year, South Broward senior running back Chris Wheatley-Humphrey and St. Thomas Aquinas senior runner Jordan Lyle are sharing the Broward County 4M-3M offensive player of the year award. Next year, they will share a backfield in Coral Gables. Lyle shook the recruiting landscape on Monday, Dec. 18, when he flipped his commitment from Ohio State to the University of Miami, where Wheatley-Humphrey has been committed for a while. It should be quite the competition. Wheatley-Humphrey, who ran for 2,076 yards and 16 touchdowns and helped the Bulldogs win their first district title in 26 years,...

West Boca junior Angelica Blimegger capped off a memorable season with an individual state championship and is the Sun Sentinel Palm Beach girls bowler of the year. Blimegger is just the second girls bowler from Palm Beach County to capture an FHSAA individual state title. She finished 10th in the girls individual state qualifier with a total of 812 (215-198-201-198). She won five consecutive best-of-three matchups in the girls individual bracket final. She also recorded a personal-high 289 game in high school during the state final. Blimegger finished as the district runner-up as a freshman....

FIRST TEAM Leah Green, Atlantic, Bowling. Tuesday, November 14, 2023. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel) Leah Green, Atlantic junior: Team captain placed fourth at county tournament (535 series); 168 season average; placed second at county tournament as sophomore; set school record with a high game of 279 as freshman. Carline Jean / South Florida Sun SentinelBreanna Grudinsky Bowling Jupiter Breanna Grudinsky, Jupiter junior: Led team to district title and had highest individual total at districts with 578 series; placed 28th at state tournament (773 series); recorded 179 season average; ...

King’s Academy senior Kate Taylor was a leader both on and off the sand for the Lions beach volleyball team this past season. Taylor, who partnered with freshman Britain Taylor (no relation) for the past two seasons on Line 1, proceeded to win 38 consecutive matches over two years before falling this year in the FHSAA state quarterfinals. The duo won their opening game, 21-13 before falling 21-18 and 15-9 to lose the opening position in three games to Vero Beach, 3-2. King’s Academy (19-1) had earned a No. 2 state ranking behind two-time defending state champion New Smyrna Beach and was ranked...

FIRST TEAM Jayden Bernstein, Olympic Heights, Weightlifting. Spring All-County, photographed on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel) Jayden Bernstein, 129 pounds, Olympic Heights junior:  District and regional champion in both traditional and Olympic categories; placed 10th in Olympic (350 total) and 13th in traditional (410 total) at Class 3A state final. Jamarkus Emerson, Forest Hill High, Weightlifting. Spring All-County, photographed on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel) Jamarkus Emerson, 139 pounds, Forest Hill freshman: Placed...