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Rising Senior – Alex Brown (Trenton)

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Rising Senior – Alex Brown (Trenton)

We are recognizing the top athletes from the Class of 2021. It will include athletes from the following counties: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, and Union.

Name: Alex Brown
School: Trenton High School
What sports will you participate in during your senior year? Football, weightlifting
What position(s) will you play? Offensive tackle, defensive tackle
Stats: 6’4″ 315 pounds, bench 350, squat 420, power clean 260
Achievements (Academic and/or Athletic): 3.4 GPA
Favorite high school sports moment so far: Beating Holy Trinity last year coming in as 10-point underdogs
Favorite quote or favorite coach saying: “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” – Proverbs 27:17
What are you looking forward to most about your senior year: “Playing football with my team.”
Goals for your senior season: “Win state championship in football.”
College offers or interest: Monmouth College

Rising Senior – Dre Lawrence (Hawthorne)

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Rising Senior – Dre Lawrence (Hawthorne)

We are recognizing the top athletes from the Class of 2021. It will include athletes from the following counties: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, and Union.

Name: Dre Lawrence
School: Hawthorne High School
Sports participating in: Football & Basketball
Position: football (DB, WR, & RB); Basketball (PG/SG)
Stats: Basketball 8.0 ppg, 2.7 rebounds, and 1.3 steals per game for the Class 1A state champion Hornets; Football – 38 tackles, 5 interceptions, and one forced fumble
Achievements: First Team All-State & First Team All-Area (football); 2nd Team All-Area (basketball)
Favorite moment: Winning state championship in basketball
Favorite quote: “Pain is weakness leaving out the body.” – Coach Slate
What I’m looking forward to senior year: Hopefully making it to state for both football and basketball
Goals for senior season: Winning state in basketball and football
College offer/interest : one offer (Carthage College); two interests

Rising Senior – Jordan Hernandez (Bell)

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Rising Senior – Jordan Hernandez (Bell)

We are recognizing the top athletes from the Class of 2021. It will include athletes from the following counties: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, and Union.

Name: Jordan Hernandez
School: Bell High School
Sports during senior year: Football, Baseball
What position will you play: Football – RB/LB/K; Baseball – OF
Stats – Second on team in sacks (3.5) and TFL (8) in 2019
Achievements – Gainesville Sun All-Area team (Honorable Mention)
Favorite quote – “Pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what you’re doing.”
What are you looking forward to senior year: “Playing my last football season with my best friends and going all out.”
Goals: “Be the best athlete I can be and to be a great teammate; prove some people wrong about us as a team and make the playoffs. Personal goal is to rush for over 500 yards.”
Colleges: “Undecided, but open to a lot of colleges especially ones in Florida.”

Rising Senior – Leontre’ Robinson (Newberry)

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Rising Senior – Leontre’ Robinson (Newberry)

We are recognizing the top athletes from the Class of 2021. It will include athletes from the following counties: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, and Union.

Name: Leontre’ Robinson
School: Newberry High School
What sports will you participate in during your senior year? Football and Basketball
What position(s) will you play? DE, LB, H-Back (PF-basketball)
Stats: 12.5 sacks, 23 solo tackles, 61 total tackles, 16 TFL, 5 forced fumbles
Achievements (Academic and/or Athletic): 1st team All-Area, 1st team All-State, A-B Honor Roll
Favorite high school sports moment so far: Comeback at Ft White (22-point half-time deficit on Senior Night and winning in 3OT)
Favorite quote or favorite coach saying: “Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
What are you looking forward to most about your senior year: “Having a better season than last season with my fellow seniors and signing to play at the next level for football.”
Goals for your senior season: “Make it further than last season, win a state championship, and go out big with the Class of ’21.”
College offers or interest: Georgia Southern, Holy Cross, Albright College, & McPherson College

Rising Senior – Jerohn Gordon (Gainesville High)

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Rising Senior – Jerohn Gordon (Gainesville High)

We are recognizing the top athletes from the Class of 2021. It will include athletes from the following counties: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, and Union.

Name: Jerohn “Overdose” Gordon
School: Gainesville High
What sports will you participate in during your senior year? Football and Track & Field
What position(s) will you play? Defense (anything)
Stats (if available, best times, etc.): 21 Tackles, one INT, 5 PBUs, and one forced fumble in only five games (due to injury)
Achievements (Academic and/or Athletic): 40 time – 4.6; 225 Bench; 315-pound squat; 35 inch vertical
Favorite high school sports moment so far: “While playing Baker County the running back received a screen pass and I was able to trip him up in open space but breaking my arm in the act. I never told coach or subbed out of the game. A few plays later a wideout makes a big catch on my head leading only to three points. Next drive I caught an interception with a broken arm to keep us in the game later going into OT.”
Favorite quote or favorite coach saying: “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” – Fred Devito
What are you looking forward to most about your senior year: Exposing big name recruits
Goals for your senior season: Win games
College offers or interest: Interest from West Florida, ASA Miami, Carthage College, & Webber International

Rising Senior – Keatan Brown (Dixie County)

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Rising Senior – Keatan Brown (Dixie County)

We are recognizing the top athletes from the Class of 2021. It will include athletes from the following counties: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, and Union.

Name: Keatan Brown
School: Dixie County High School
Sport: Football
Position(s) – Fullback and linebacker
Stats: 250 rushing yards (Avg. 6.1 ypc) & 66 tackles as a junior
Favorite high school sports moment so far: Rushing over 205 yards in one game (vs. Newberry)
Favorite quote: “Never say you can’t.” – Coach LB Cravey
What are you looking forward to most about your senior year: “Setting goals for myself to achieve them.”
Goals for your senior year: “To get a scholarship to play football somewhere.”

Rising Senior – Kobe Delima (Newberry)

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Rising Senior – Kobe Delima (Newberry)

We are recognizing the top athletes from the Class of 2021. It will include athletes from the following counties: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, and Union.

Name: Kobe Delima
School: Newberry High School
What sports will you participate in during your senior year? Football & Basketball
What position(s) will you play? RB, KR, FS (SG – basketball)
Stats (if available, best times, etc.): 1,405 All-purpose yards, 1024 rushing yds, 12 TD’s
Achievements (Academic and/or Athletic): Honorable Mention All-State & Gainesville Sun All-Area first team (Football)
Favorite high school sports moment so far: “Everything about high school football.”
Favorite quote: “There’s always something we want to accomplish. Try hard to complete it and maybe, just maybe, you’ll get very far.” –unknown
What are you looking forward to most about your senior year: “Just to play on Friday nights.”
Goals for your senior season: Graduate
College offers or interest: Alvernia University, McPherson College, and Hutchinson College

Rising Senior – Trent Steedley (Bell)

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Rising Senior – Trent Steedley (Bell)

We are recognizing the top athletes from the Class of 2021. It will include athletes from the following counties: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, and Union.

Name: Trent Steedley
School: Bell High School
Sport: Football
Position: DT
Stats: 63 tackles, 9 TFL, 6 sacks (led the team)
Achievements: Gainesville Sun All-Area Team; earned certification in all engineering software through school program, medals of excellence in ROTC for Academics and Athletics.
Favorite quote – “Football is played with blood, sweat, anger, malice and discontent.” – Rick Carnley (Bell DC and D-line coach)
Looking forward to my senior year: “I’m looking forward to my senior year with my brothers on the football field and playing my heart out.”
Goals – Finish high school, have a great senior season, and make the playoffs
Colleges: Attend UF to earn civil engineering degree

Rising Senior – Thurman Mills (Hawthorne)

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Rising Senior – Thurman Mills (Hawthorne)

We are recognizing the top athletes from the Class of 2021. It will include athletes from the following counties: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, and Union.

Name: Thurman Mills
School: Hawthorne high school
Sports participating in: Football and basketball
Positions: OL/DL (Football) & Center/Power Forward (Basketball)
Stats: 44 tackles in 8 games 4 sacks
Achievements: 3.55 GPA; won Class 1A state title in basketball
Favorite high school sports moment: Winning state in basketball
Favorite quote: “If something stands between you and your success, move it.” – Dwayne Johnson
Looking forward to in my senior year: Competing for state championship in football and Basketball
Goals for senior season: 75 tackles with 10 sacks, and a state championship
College Offers: Grandview University, Carthage College, Warner University, Graceland University, & Albright College

Rising Senior – Sam Cannon (Dixie County)

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Rising Senior – Sam Cannon (Dixie County)

We are recognizing the top athletes from the Class of 2021. It will include athletes from the following counties: Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, and Union.

Name: Sam Cannon
School: Dixie County (Cross City)
Sports during senior year: Football (QB, SS, FS, C) & Baseball (Utility)
Stats: Sophomore Season over 10 TD’s, Junior Season over 15 TD’s
Achievements: Maintained above 3.5 GPA throughout all schooling.
Favorite high school sports moment so far: “My favorite high school sports moment was winning the district championship for the first time in Dixie’s history in baseball in 2019, but I can’t forget to mention scoring the game-winning touchdown on homecoming with an 82-yard run my junior season.”
Favorite quote:  “A team is like a chain, only as strong as the weakest link.” – Coach Skipp
What are you looking forward to senior year: “Going into my senior season I’m looking forward to the great memories and fun with my brothers on the field that I can look upon as I age.”
Goals: “My goals for this season is to lead on and off the field, lead my team to an undefeated season, and personally achieved 800 rushing yards and 800 passing.”
College offers/interests: I currently have 0 college offers.

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