FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 15, 2002


Winter Park, Buchholz, St. Thomas Aquinas, Bolles, Lake Highland Prep, St. Stephen’s Episcopal lead Dodge Floyd E. Lay Sunshine Cup all-sports award standings

GAINESVILLE – Winter Park, Buchholz (Gainesville), St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale), Bolles (Jacksonville), Lake Highland Prep (Orlando) and St. Stephen’s Episcopal (Bradenton) lead their respective classifications following fall sports competition in the 2001-02 Dodge Sunshine Cup Floyd E. Lay All-Sports Awards Point Standings.

Winter Park, with 218.5 points, holds a 45.5-point advantage over second place Spanish River (Boca Raton) in Class 6A. Buchholz is well in the lead in Class 5A with 243 points, 43.5 points better than second place Seminole, which has a 199.5 point average. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) leads Class 4A with 328 points, 102 points ahead of Plant (Tampa). Bolles, with 244 points, leads Class 3A by 53 points over Gulliver Prep (Coral Gables), which has 191 points. Lake Highland Prep (Orlando) is on top of Class 2A with 305 points, 91 points better than second place Maclay (Tallahassee), which has 214 points. Finally, St. Stephen’s Episcopal (Bradenton), with 134 points, leads Class A over second place Oak Hall (Gainesville) by only 4 points.

The Dodge Sunshine Cup Floyd E. Lay All-Sports Awards is named in honor of Commissioner-Emeritus Floyd E. Lay, who led the Association from 1963 through 1980. It is presented by Dodge and Your Florida Dodge Dealers, the official vehicle of the Florida High School Activities Association.

The 577 member senior high schools have been divided into six classifications for administrative purposes based on the enrollments submitted to the FHSAA Office in October 2000, which were used to discern the classifications as they are drawn up now. An all-sports award will be presented in each of these six administrative classifications in overall, girls and boys divisions at the conclusion of the 2000-01 school year. Points are awarded a school based on its finish in FHSAA State Series competition in each sport in the classification in which it has been assigned to compete. The top 32 places are scored. Points are awarded as follows: 50, 47, 44, 42, 40, 38, 36, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 20, 18, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. When two or more schools are tied for a particular place in a sport, the points allotted for those places are shared equally by the schools that are tied. In the event of a tie for the award in either the overall, girls or boys divisions at the end of the school year, the following tiebreakers will be used: (1) number of state team championships won; (2) number of state team runners-up finishes; (3) number of regional team championships won; (4) number of regional team runners-up finishes; (5) number of district team championships won; and (6) number of district team runners-up finishes.

Winners will be honored at the FHSAA Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Awards Banquet on June 13 at the Wyndham Westshore in Tampa.

Here are the top 10 teams in the overall standings, as well as girls program and boys program standings:

Overall Standings

CLASS 6A
1. Winter Park 218.5
2. Spanish River (Boca Raton) 173.0
3. Sarasota 143.5
4. Oviedo 136.5
5. Martin County (Stuart) 134.5
6. Christopher Columbus (Miami) 131.0
7. Boone (Orlando) 125.0
8. Edgewater (Orlando) 117.5
9. Dr. Phillips (Orlando) 112.0
10. Cypress Creek (Orlando) 111.0

CLASS 5A
1. Buchholz (Gainesville) 243.0
2. Seminole 199.5
3. Niceville 162.5
4. Fort Myers 141.0
5. Charlotte (Punta Gorda) 106.5
6. Northeast (St. Petersburg) 101.5
7. Spruce Creek (Port Orange) 100.0
8. Belleview 99.0
9. Chamberlain (Tampa) 95.0
10. Winter Springs 93.5

CLASS 4A
1. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) 328.0
2. Plant (Tampa) 226.0
3. Gainesville 157.0
4. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville) 155.5
5. Chiles (Tallahassee) 142.5
6. Merritt Island 115.0
7. Estero 111.5
8. Satellite (Satellite Beach) 108.0
9. Our Lady of Lourdes (Miami) 98.5
10. Rockledge 98.0

CLASS 3A
1. Bolles (Jacksonville) 244.0
2. Gulliver Prep (Coral Gables) 191.0
3. Bishop Moore (Orlando) 190.0
4. Nease (St. Augustine) 165.0
5. Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale) 163.0
6. Pine Crest (Fort Lauderdale) 141.0
7. Bishop Verot (Fort Myers) 117.0
8. Gulf Breeze 101.0
9. Jesuit (Tampa) 99.5
10. Pope John Paul (Boca Raton) 87.5

CLASS 2A
1. Lake Highland Prep (Orlando) 305.0
2. Maclay (Tallahassee) 214.0
3. Trinity Prep (Winter Park) 207.5
4. Episcopal (Jacksonville) 202.0
5. Berkeley Prep (Tampa) 176.0
6. Westminster Academy (Fort Lauderdale) 175.5
7. St. Andrew’s (Boca Raton) 170.0
8. Ransom Everglades (Miami) 123.5
9. P.K. Yonge (Gainesville) 100.0
10. Tampa Prep 97.5

CLASS A
1. St. Stephen’s Episcopal (Bradenton) 134.0
2. Oak Hall (Gainesville) 130.0
3. Shorecrest Prep (St. Petersburg) 94.5
4. Bradenton Academy 94.0
5. Canterbury (Fort Myers) 87.0
6. Indian Rocks Christian (Largo) 86.0
7. Holy Trinity Episcopal (Melbourne) 83.5
8. Lakeland Christian 82.5
9. Keswick Christian (St. Petersburg) 82.0
10. St. Johns Country Day (Orange Park) 78.0


Girls Standings

CLASS 6A
1. Spanish River (Boca Raton) 126.0
2. Winter Park 121.5
3. Oviedo 117.0
4. Riverview (Sarasota) 91.5
5. Sarasota 85.0

CLASS 5A
1. Buchholz (Gainesville) 163.0
2. Niceville 128.0
3. Seminole 86.5
4. Fort Myers 84.0
5. Durant (Plant City) 72.0

CLASS 4A
1. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) 184.0
2. Plant (Tampa) 168.0
3. Gainesville 123.0
4. (tie) Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville) 98.5
4. (tie) Our Lady of Lourdes (Miami) 98.5

CLASS 3A
1. Bolles (Jacksonville) 157.0
2. Bishop Moore (Orlando) 119.0
3. Gulliver Prep (Coral Gables) 111.0
4. Pine Crest (Fort Lauderdale) 94.0
5. Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale) 79.5

CLASS 2A
1. Lake Highland Prep (Orlando) 138.0
2. Westminster Academy (Fort Lauderdale) 127.0
3. Trinity Prep (Winter Park) 117.0
4. Episcopal (Jacksonville) 106.0
5. Maclay (Tallahassee) 93.0

CLASS A
1. Oak Hall (Gainesville) 87.0
2. St. Johns Country Day (Orange Park) 65.0
3. Holy Trinity Episcopal (Melbourne) 61.0
4. Keswick Christian (St. Petersburg) 57.0
5. Canterbury (Fort Myers) 50.0


Boys Standings

CLASS 6A
1. Christopher Columbus (Miami) 131.0
2. Martin County (Stuart) 102.0
3. Winter Park 97.0
4. Cypress Creek (Orlando) 79.0
5. Edgewater (Orlando) 76.5

CLASS 5A
1. Seminole 113.0
2. Columbia (Lake City) 84.0
3. Buchholz (Gainesville) 80.0
4. Lincoln (Tallahassee) 78.0
5. Lakewood Ranch (Bradenton) 75.0

CLASS 4A
1. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) 144.0
2. Rockledge 80.0
3. Astronaut (Titusville) 76.5
4. Estero 71.0
5. Satellite (Satellite Beach) 70.0

CLASS 3A
1. Jesuit (Tampa) 99.5
2. Nease (St. Augustine) 93.0
3. Bolles (Jacksonville) 87.0
4. Belen Jesuit (Miami) 85.0
5. Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale) 83.5

CLASS 2A
1. Lake Highland Prep (Orlando) 167.0
2. Maclay (Tallahassee) 121.0
3. St. Andrew’s (Boca Raton) 110.0
4. Berkeley Prep (Tampa) 101.0
5. Episcopal (Jacksonville) 96.0

CLASS A
1. St. Stephen’s Episcopal 90.0
2. Shorecrest Prep (St. Petersburg) 62.5
3. Bradenton Academy 47.0
4. (tie) Oak Hall 43.0
5. (tie) Lakeland Christian 43.0


Contact:
Robert Hernberger
Assistant Director of Communications, FHSAA
(352) 372-9551 ext. 190
roberth@fhsaa.org