FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 3, 2008
St. Thomas Aquinas, Nease, P.K. Yonge, Maclay sweep Dodge Sunshine Cup all-sports awards
GAINESVILLE – St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale), Nease (Ponte Vedra Beach), P.K. Yonge (Gainesville), and Maclay (Tallahassee) swept the top overall, boys and girls awards in their respective classifications in the final 2007-08 Dodge Sunshine Cup All-Sports Awards point standings. Spruce Creek (Port Orange), Bolles (Jacksonville), Port St. Joe, FAMU (Tallahassee) and Bradenton Prep also won the overall awards in their respective classifications.
Spruce Creek (Port Orange), with 857.5 points, holds a 46-point margin over second-place Winter Park in the Class 6A overall standings. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) totalled 1,184.5 points to take the lead in Class 5A over Plant (Tampa), which finished with 860 points. Nease (Ponte Vedra Beach) topped Class 4A with 1,061 points over Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville), which finished with 864 points. P.K. Yonge (Gainesville) leads the Class 3A public school category with 487.5 points, 196.5 points better than Florida High (Tallahassee). Bolles (Jacksonville), with 1,137.8 points, is out in front of the Class 3A private schools, 293.8 points better than second-place American Heritage (Plantation). Port St. Joe, with 317.5 points, set the pace in Class 2A public schools, while second-place Fort Meade finished with 235 points. In Class 2A private schools, Maclay (Tallahassee), with 697.5 points, boasted a 158.5-point margin over Community School (Naples). FAMU (Tallahassee) earned the lead in the Class 1A public school category with 296.5 points, 40 points ahead of rival Paxton. Finally, Bradenton Prep, with 278 points, finished five points better than second-place Seffner Christian in the Class 1A private school category.
The Dodge Sunshine Cup All-Sports Awards are presented by Dodge and Your Florida Dodge Dealers, the official vehicle of the Florida High School Athletic Association.
For the 2007-08 school year, the 650 member senior high schools have been divided into six classifications for administrative purposes based on the enrollments submitted to the FHSAA Office in October 2004, which were used to discern the classifications as they are drawn up now. In accordance with a Board mandate at its November 2002 meeting, Classes 1A, 2A and 3A are further subdivided into public and private categories. An all-sports award will be presented in each of these nine categories in overall, girls and boys divisions at the conclusion of the 2007-08 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 16 places are scored. In bracket sports, points are awarded as follows: 100 for the state champion, 90 for the state runner-up, 83 for the state semifinalists, 60 for 5-8th places, and 25 for 9-16th places. In non-bracket sports, points are awarded as follows: 100, 90, 85, 80, 70, 63, 56, 49, 38, 34, 30, 26, 22, 18, 14, 10. Schools get a 5-point bonus for winning a district or regional championship, and points are deducted for unsportsmanlike conduct: 0.5 points for student-athlete ejection/unsportsmanlike conduct incident; 1.0 for student-athlete gross unsportsmanlike conduct incident; 2.0 for coach ejection/unsportsmanlike conduct incident, plus addition 0.5 points deducted for each $50 amount above initial fine; and approximately 3-5 additional points deducted for a school or team-based violation (e.g., bench-clearing brawl, coaches take team off the field, etc.). 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 in their communities by local Dodge dealers during the 2008-09 school year.
Here are the top 10 teams in the overall standings, as well as girls program and boys program standings:
Overall Standings
CLASS 6A1. Spruce Creek (Port Orange), 857.5 points.
2. Winter Park, 811.5.
3. Cypress Bay (Weston), 809.5.
4. Lake Brantley (Altamonte Springs), 616.5.
5. Olympia (Orlando), 604.5.
6. Jupiter, 593.
7. Park Vista (Lake Worth), 497.5.
8. Lake Mary, 436.5.
9. Oviedo, 424.5.
9. Vero Beach, 424.5.
9. Winter Springs, 424.5.
CLASS 5A
1. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale), 1184.5 points.
2. Plant (Tampa), 860.
3. Leon (Tallahassee), 661.5.
4. Bartram Trail (Jacksonville), 655.
5. Wharton (Tampa), 569.5.
6. Newsome (Lithia), 498.
7. Satellite (Satellite Beach), 489.
8. Niceville, 442.
9. Gainesville, 436.
10. Martin County (Stuart), 428.
CLASS 4A1. Nease (Ponte Vedra Beach), 1061 points.
2. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville), 864.
3. Bishop Moore (Orlando), 654.5.
4. Naples, 630.5.
5. Gulf Breeze, 624.
6. Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale), 549.
7. Washington (Pensacola), 477.5.
8. Nature Coast (Brooksville), 342.5.
9. Navarre, 324.5.
10. Monsignor Pace (Miami), 312.5.
CLASS 3A PUBLIC1. P.K. Yonge (Gainesville), 487.5 points.
2. Florida High (Tallahassee), 291.
3. Keystone Heights, 248.
4. Dunbar (Fort Myers), 188.
5. Newberry, 186.5.
6. Frostproof, 163.
7. Marianna, 146.5.
8. Madison County (Madison), 146.
9. Wildwood, 128.
10. Chipley, 125.
CLASS 3A PRIVATE1. Bolles (Jacksonville), 1137.8 points.
2. American Heritage (Plantation), 844.
3. Gulliver Prep (Miami), 813.5.
4. Lake Highland Prep (Orlando), 773.
5. Ransom Everglades (Miami), 666.
6. Trinity Prep (Winter Park), 610.
7. Episcopal (Jacksonville), 548.
8. Pine Crest (Fort Lauderdale), 532.5.
9. Pensacola Catholic, 526.5.
10. Berkeley Prep (Tampa), 525.5.
CLASS 2A PUBLIC
1. Port St. Joe, 317.5 points.
2. Fort Meade, 235.
3. Lafayette (Mayo), 196.
4. Wewahitchka, 125.
5. Sneads, 124.5.
6. Cottondale, 119.5.
7. Altha, 105.
8. Blountstown, 104.3.
9. Jay, 92.
10. Baker, 74.
CLASS 2A PRIVATE
1. Maclay (Tallahassee), 697.5 points.
2. Community School (Naples), 539.
3. American Heritage (Delray Beach), 538.5.
4. Tampa Prep, 478.5.
5. King's Academy (West Palm Beach), 476.
6. Dade Christian (Miami), 474.5.
7. Providence (Jacksonville), 445.
8. North Florida Christian (Tallahassee), 428.
9. Holy Trinity (Melbourne), 371.5.
10. Orangewood Christian (Maitland), 340.5.
CLASS 1A PUBLIC1. FAMU (Tallahassee), 296.5 points.
2. Paxton, 256.5.
3. Graceville, 115.
4. Bethlehem (Bonifay), 65.
5. Malone, 35.
6. (tie) Carter-Parramore (Quincy), 30.
6. (tie) Laurel Hill, 30.
8. 7 schools tied with zero points.
CLASS 1A PRIVATE
1. Bradenton Prep, 278 points.
2. Seffner Christian, 273.
3. Trinity Christian (Lake Worth), 268.5.
4. Eagle's View (Jacksonville), 248.5.
5. Lake Worth Christian (Boynton Beach), 218.
6. Trinity Christian (Deltona), 207.
7. Lake Mary Prep, 195.
8. Merritt Island Christian, 188.
9. Bradenton Christian, 187.5.
10. Sarasota Christian, 175.
Girls Standings
CLASS 6A
1. Cypress Bay (Weston), 423 points.
2. Timber Creek (Orlando), 398.3.
3. Spruce Creek (Port Orange), 379.5.
4. Vero Beach, 342.5.
5. Winter Park, 341.5.
CLASS 5A
1. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale), 625.5 points.
2. Plant (Tampa), 519.5.
3. Leon (Tallahassee), 415.5.
4. Bartram Trail (Jacksonville), 409.
5. Satellite (Satellite Beach), 373.
CLASS 4A
1. Nease (Ponte Vedra Beach), 493 points.
2. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville), 481.
3. Gulf Breeze, 396.
4. Bishop Moore (Orlando), 372.
5. Naples, 302.
CLASS 3A PUBLIC1. P.K. Yonge (Gainesville), 316 points.
2. Florida High (Tallahassee), 134.
3. Chipley, 125.
4. Parkway (Miramar), 110.
5. Dunbar (Fort Myers), 100.
CLASS 3A PRIVATE1. Lake Highland Prep (Orlando), 612 points.
2. American Heritage (Plantation), 490.
3. Bolles (Jacksonville), 486.
4. Gulliver Prep (Miami), 425.5.
5. Episcopal (Jacksonville), 354.5.
CLASS 2A PUBLIC1. Port St. Joe, 130 points.
2. (tie) Wewahitchka, 120.
2. (tie) Cottondale, 120.
4. Lafayette (Mayo), 104.5.
5. Sneads, 94.5.
CLASS 2A PRIVATE
1. Maclay (Tallahassee), 334 points.
2. Dade Christian (Miami), 285.
3. Community School (Naples), 270.
4. King's Academy (West Palm Beach), 255.
5. American Heritage (Delray Beach), 243.
CLASS 1A PUBLIC1. Paxton, 127 points.
2. Bethlehem (Bonifay), 65.
3. FAMU (Tallahassee), 59.5
4. Malone, 30.
5. Graceville, 25.
CLASS 1A PRIVATE
1. (tie) Lake Worth Christian (Boynton Beach), 188 points (winner by tiebreaker).
2. Merritt Island Christian, 188.
3. Lake Mary Prep, 164.
4. Seffner Christian, 130.
5. (tie) Eagle's View (Jacksonville), 110.
5. (tie) Bayshore Christian (Tampa), 110.
Boys Standings
CLASS 6A1. Spruce Creek (Port Orange), 478 points.
2. Winter Park, 470.
3. Cypress Bay (Weston), 386.5.
4. Winter Springs, 360.5.
5. Olympia (Orlando), 352.5.
CLASS 5A
1. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale), 559 points.
2. Plant (Tampa), 340.5.
3. Jesuit (Tampa), 337.
4. Brandon, 299.5.
5. Wharton (Tampa), 295.5.
CLASS 4A1. Nease (Ponte Vedra Beach), 568 points.
2. Washington (Pensacola), 395.
3. Bishop Kenny (Jacksonville), 383.
4. Naples, 328.5.
5. Monsignor Pace (Miami), 307.5.
CLASS 3A PUBLIC1. P.K. Yonge (Gainesville), 171.5 points.
2. Keystone Heights, 158.
3. Florida High (Tallahassee), 157.
4. Marianna, 147.
5. Madison County (Madison), 141.
CLASS 3A PRIVATE1. Bolles (Jacksonville), 651.8 points.
2. Gulliver Prep (Miami), 388.
3. American Heritage (Plantation), 354.
4. Ransom Everglades (Miami), 312.5.
5. Trinity Prep (Winter Park), 302.
CLASS 2A PUBLIC
1. Fort Meade, 219.5 points.
2. Port St. Joe, 187.5.
3. Altha, 105.
4. Blountstown, 104.3.
5. Lafayette (Mayo), 91.5.
CLASS 2A PRIVATE
1. Maclay (Tallahassee), 363.5 points.
2. American Heritage (Delray Beach), 295.5.
3. Providence (Jacksonville), 275.
4. Community School (Naples), 269.
5. Tampa Prep, 252.5.
CLASS 1A PUBLIC1. FAMU (Tallahassee), 237 points.
2. Paxton, 129.5.
3. Graceville, 90.
4. Carter-Parramore (Quincy), 30.
5. Laurel Hill, 25.
CLASS 1A PRIVATE1. Bradenton Prep, 278 points.
2. Trinity Christian (Deltona), 207.
3. Grandview Prep (Boca Raton), 164.5.
4. Trinity Christian (Lake Worth), 163.5.
5. Bradenton Christian, 157.5.
Contact:
Laurel Ring
Director of Special Programs, FHSAA
(352) 372-9551 ext. 350
lring@fhsaa.org
