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Hamlin Balloon fest ready for inaugural flight in Horizon West.

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Community considers joining Windermere Annexation discussions are ongoing between the town’s staff and the Chaine Du Lac residents.

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The town of Windermere soon may see a westward expansion.

For the past four years, the town’s staff and Chaine Du SEE ANNEXATION PAGE 2

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Town of Windermere residents, business leaders and fellow civil servants flocked to Windermere Town Hall to bid farewell to longtime Mayor Gary Bruhn. SEE PAGE 4.

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Court sides with county in appeal

by Windermere Country Club owner A circuit judge ruled Orange County had not denied due process to golf course owner Bryan DeCunha.

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The saga of the defunct Windermere Country Club Golf Course is a long one, but it seems the end is near for what has been a years-long fight for the development rights to the property.

On Feb. 20, a circuit court judge ruled in favor of Orange County in a case involving the owner of the Windermere Country Club course, Bryan DeCunha.

DeCunha purchased the 155acre golf course for $2.17 milSEE JUDGE PAGE 5

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CHAMBER BUSINESS AFTER HOURS 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at West Orange Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore showroom, 13369 W. Colonial Drive, Winter Garden. Take your favorite Mardi Gras mask for the West Orange Chamber of Commerce’s gold, purple and green party and possibly go home with a cash prize.

Enjoy authentic New Orleans menu fare while mingling with other business men and women.

Cost is $5 in advance and $10 at the door for Chamber members; and $25 for others. RSVP at wochamber.com.

GRIEFSHARE SUPPORT GROUP 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. beginning Thursday, Feb. 28, and continuing for 13 weeks at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 4851 S. Apopka-Vineland Road, Orlando. All faiths welcome. Learn to journey through your grief toward healing and hope for the future. Meetings include videos featuring leading grief recovery experts, small-group discussion and a workbook to reinforce weekly session topics. Meet in the Special Events Dining Room in Building C. Register online at st.lukes.org/care/#grief.

Email care@st.lukes.org or call (407) 876-4991, Ext. 262, for information.

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FOURTH ANNUAL WINDERMERE FINE ART SHOW 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 2, and Sunday, March 3, in downtown Windermere. Featuring more than 95 fine-art artists from Windermere and around the U.S., the event will include live entertainment, food, wine and beer, and performing arts around the Town Square and Main Street sidewalks. (407) 808-0665.

EVENING AT THE POPS 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at Newton Park, 31 W. Garden Ave., Winter Garden. Enjoy an evening under the stars and a night of music provided by the UCF Symphony Orchestra and hosted by the Rotary Club of Winter Garden. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $75 for VIP. Children under 10 are free. Tickets available at Eventbrite.com.

HAMLIN BALLOON FESTIVAL 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at 14111 Shoreside Way, Winter Garden. Experience a spectacular sunset over Lake Hancock. Event is wind- and weather-permitting. Tickets are $20 per person per ride and are available at events.eventzilla.net.

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Lac residents have been communicating about the mutual benefits of annexation.

Chaine Du Lac, a 103-acre community in unincorporated Orange County, is located south of Lake Butler Boulevard on the north shore of Lake Butler and is known for its milliondollar lakefront estate homes.

The 46-home community borders the town’s boundaries and would serve as a financially beneficial expansion for the town, which stands to gain about $238,000 in annual ad-valorem revenue from the community if the residents ultimately choose to annex into the town.

The town currently receives about $2.2 million in ad-valorem tax revenue from its 1,500 parcels, Windermere Town Manager Robert Smith said.

“They approached us a couple years ago to inquire about annexation, and just about this time last year, our police chief and (Smith) sat down with them to answer their questions,” Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn said. “They wanted to know what the process would be and what would be required. Since then, in the past few months, we again gave them more information as a follow-up to some other questions and now the ball is in their court. We’re just waiting for them to decide how, and if, they want to proceed.”

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dents and property owners would benefit from the potential annexation because the residents would enjoy faster response times for emergency calls and be able to have more say in a small town as opposed to a large county, both Bruhn and Smith said. However, the enhanced level of services would come at a price, as the residents would see a slight increase in property taxes after annexation.

According to an analysis conducted in July 2018, the estimated annual increase would be an average of $341 to $541 per household. The increase is due to higher assessment fees for the town’s twice-weekly solid waste pickup, the millage rate for fire protection from the city of Ocoee, and stormwater, which could be reduced by 50% if the HOA agrees to manage its own stormwater system.

“We’re pretty much leaving it up to them,” Smith said. “And we wouldn’t have to provide any additional officers or anything like that. And they would be able to receive an enhanced level of service in terms of public safety. But they would see an incremental increase in their current taxes because when you look at what they’re paying Orange County now versus what they would pay the town of Windermere with garbage pickup and stormwater assessments, it would be slightly more than what they’re paying the county.”

Despite the slight tax

increase, Zachary Stoumbos, a nine-year resident of Chaine Du Lac, is in favor of annexing into the town because he believes the enhanced level of services would be worth the extra couple hundred dollars per year, he said.

“I think it’s important to be part of a city or town, as opposed to a county,” Stoumbos said. “I have nothing against Orange County, but I think the level of service would be much better in a smaller community.”

Stoumbos, whose home is not actually part of the HOA as it was built before the HOA was established, shared that the years-long delay in the discussion is mostly due to not following through with the petition process. He added the correspondence will begin to be distributed next week.

“I think the delay is more our fault,” he said. “A number of us have intended to circulate some correspondence to all the registered voters in the subdivision so that they’ll be able to vote and say whether they want to be part of the annexation or not. So we’ve got to get this correspondence out to all the homeowners and kind of gauge their level of interest. And I don’t speak for the subdivision, but all the people I’ve talked to in the subdivision seem to support annexation.

Almost everybody had a very positive response to the idea of becoming part of the (town of) Windermere. So we just need to formalize it now.”

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Up, up and away Get ready to take a sunset flight near Lake Hancock during Hamlin’s upcoming balloon festival.

DANIELLE HENDRIX BLACK TIE EDITOR

It won’t be much like the house tethered to balloons in Disney’s “Up,” but in just a few days, you will be able to step into a hot-air balloon and get a bird’s-eye view of Horizon West.

The Hamlin Balloon Festival is taking place Saturday, March 2, and the views that balloon passengers will be treated to promise to be second to none — a sunset over Lake Hancock and a new perspective of Hamlin, to name a few.

Kenny Shumate, a ballon pilot of 38 years and self-proclaimed “balloonatic,” will be one of the pilots flying at the festival. He and four other experienced balloonists will bring their balloons, and Shumate said each pilot has more than 30 years of experience in the craft.

“I started here in Orlando in the early 1980s, and I just saw a balloon fly over my house one day and thought, ‘That’s kind of cool,’” Shumate said. “My neighbor said, ‘Hey, I know someone that does that. Want to go do it?’

I went out the next day to Kissimmee. The guy that I flew with the first time built his own balloon, basket and burner. I’d never seen a balloon before so I didn’t know how this stuff worked. It’s just so cool, really neat. He said, ‘You want to go for a flight?’ I hopped in his balloon, and away we went.

We took off from the Kissimmee airport and landed almost to Lake Apopka.”

Shumate has logged more than 4,000 hours in the air, and he said most of the pilots at the festival

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Saturday have no fewer than 2,000 hours. Throughout his time as a balloonist, he has owned 57 or 58 balloons of different shapes, sizes and colors.

“I buy them, fly them and sell them,” he said. “It’s just great. I absolutely love it. Right now, I’m down to three, I think. If a deal comes along I can’t pass up, I’ll just buy it. What usually happens is I’ll fly it, fall in love with it and then hate to see it go.

“I would take off from work five months a year and travel all up through Canada, New York, Maine, Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee,” he said. “I was doing 25 to 35 balloon events a year. I would do the ones here in Florida, because we fly here year-round — up north they shut down from October to March or April.”

Balloons undergo an inspection either annually or every 100 hours of flight time. Federal Aviation Administration inspectors come and check every panel of the nylon balloon fabric. Pilots also undergo biannual reviews. The standards are much the same as those for airplane pilots, Shumate said. Tanks are certified every few years, and every part of the balloon is checked and certified or replaced if needed on their own schedules.

For the Hamlin festival, balloons will be tethered to a vehicle setup to keep them in place. Shumate said he hopes to be able to ascend at least 80 to 90 feet in the air, depending on winds and weather. Each ride costs $20 per person. It will last about five minutes or so, and passengers will be able to take in the views of Walt Disney World, Horizon West and, of course, Hamlin.

Although the festival starts at 5:30 p.m., Shumate said he usually flies early in the morning, because the temperatures are much cooler, and winds tend to be calmer.

It’s risky flying during the hottest parts of the day, because the balloons are already powered by heat.

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seconds to keep them rising.

“If you want to fly and go higher, you give it more heat, and if you want it to come down, you don’t give it heat,” he said. “My favorite time (of year) to fly is right about now, even though we are having unusually warm weather. March and April are (on their way) in and orange blossoms are coming out.

Everything is starting to come into bloom, and it’s absolutely gorgeous.

“In the open basket, you get out there and see so many things and the only control you have is up or down — that’s why we see what the wind is doing,” he said. “It’s quite amazing.”

The roof and walls are up, and interior work is underway as a relief elementary school in Horizon West continues to take shape.

Orange County School Board leaders and builders hosted a 40% construction community meeting regarding elementary school site 25-E-SW-4 Feb. 20 at the Bay Lake Elementary School cafeteria. The elementary school will be located at 9131 Taborfield Ave., Orlando.

Project Manager Glenn Mullins, of CPPI, the construction management company building the school, gave a presentation about the progress that has been made since the summer of 2018.

He said the foundation work for the school began in July, and the concrete pad was laid in August.

Exterior walls were raised in September, and structural steel was installed in October. The roof was installed in November, interior work began in December, and by January, parking and the roads on the school site began to take shape. Construction for the school is expected to be completed in May, and the school will open in August in time for the 2019-20 school year, Mullins said.

“Back in June, we were actually doing dirt work, so we were clearing the site (for our) building pad and getting ready to start building the building,” Mullins said. “The next big milestone for us is (installing) permanent power to the facility, which we’re anticipating here within the next week or so.”

Mullins added that stormwater will be stored in two retention ponds on the school property. Both ponds will be fenced off with a six-foot, black-vinyl fence around the perimeter of each pond.

The school was budgeted for $23.3 million. The site area for the school is 13.5 acres, and the gross floor area is 104,342 square feet. Student capacity is 837 students. The car loop for student drop-off/pick-up will have a queueing capacity of 171 cars, and the bus queue can accommodate 17-plus buses.

Total parking capacity at the school is 124 cars, according to Mullins’ presentation and an Orange County Public Schools fact sheet.

Classrooms for primarygrade students — kindergarten through third grade — will be equipped with their own bathrooms. The school is not expected to need portables to accommodate students, said Jessma Lambert, facilities director of construction planning for OCPS. “We do not anticipate — day one — having any portables at this school,” Lambert said.

A number of residents at the meeting raised questions regarding parking along Taborfield Avenue in addition to whether or not there will be a four-way stop and crosswalk at Taborfield Avenue and Lady Diana Place, which is a point of entry to the school.

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837 The student capacity 104,342 The building area in gross square feet

124 The number of parking spaces

171 The number of cars accommodated in the carqueuing line 17-plus The number of buses that will fit under the bus canopy 13.5 The site size in acres Lambert wrote in an email that signs reading “No Parking, No Standing, No Waiting” will be installed along Taborfield Avenue, and a crosswalk traversing Taborfield Avenue will be located on the north side of intersection of Taborfield and Lady Diana Place. The need for a four-way stop at that intersection will be evaluated upon the school’s opening.

Julie Helton, who will be the principal of the new school, said she’s been working on naming the school with the help from students and parents. Students submitted name suggestions, and the top three names submitted were Castleview Elementary, Lake Mabel Elementary and Seven Seas Elementary.

The three names then went to a vote among parents, and voting ended 9 p.m. the night of the meeting. A school mascot will be chosen once a name is selected, Helton said.

“We are relieving Independence Elementary and Sand Lake (Elementary) as well as Bay Lake (Elementary),” Helton said.

“Regardless of which (name) is chosen, we will start a historical society, and I want to make sure the students know what the history of the area is.”

Lambert said although voting for the school name ended the night of the community meeting, the School Board won’t be approving the name until the April meeting.

Helton said within the school’s first year of operation, she will gauge interest among the school’s community to add pre-K and a dual-language magnet program to the school.

She also said the school is slated to open with 700 students.

“The first year, we will gauge interest for pre-K and then we’ll see if we need to add a pre-K program for either the second semester or the second year,” Helton said. “I will also be gauging interest for a dual-language magnet program for the following year.”

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lion in April 2011. He closed down the golf course in April 2016, after the club’s membership declined, and proposed to build 95 homes on 50 acres of the property.

But to redevelop the property, DeCunha required the development rights, which were dedicated to the county per a 1986 agreement with the course’s original developer. He made a request to the county, but Orange County commissioners denied it in October 2016 and then upheld their decision in January 2017 following his appeal.

In response, DeCunha filed a lawsuit against Orange County alleging the denial was not based on competent substantial evidence and that he had been denied due process. But the court disagreed with arguments presented

by DeCunha’s attorneys.

“The court said three things — the first of which was that the County Commission did not deny him procedural process,” said Kurt Ardaman, the attorney representing the residents who opposed DeCunha’s development plans.

The developer said they were denied due process, but the court disagreed.

“Number two: the developer argued that the County Commission had departed from what is called the essential requirements of law,” he said. “But then the court cited some cases that we had provided and determined that the commission had not departed from the essential requirements of law and had very carefully followed the law. And their third argument the developer made was

that there was no competent substantial evidence that we, and the county’s staff, had presented to the county commission when the commission first denied the developer’s request.”

Ardaman believed the judge’s order denying DeCunha’s petition for Writ of Cert was “powerful and well-written.” He also appreciated how the court agreed the county holds the development rights in trust for the public and that the dedication of development rights to the county in trust to the public was “permanent an irrevocable.”

“It was a very good ruling, and we’re very pleased,” Ardaman said.

“It would be very tough now for the developer to succeed, but he still has some additional appellate rights that he can pursue.”

Leigh-Ann Dyal, the Windermere Country Club HOA president, said the court’s decision was happily received.

“We’ve been waiting for a decision for over a year now,” Dyal said.

“We’ve been waiting in limbo for the court to decide whether or not to keep with the Orange County Board of County Commissioners decision in 2017 to not build houses behind us. We were all there when they made that decision. But then he appealed and lost the appeal. But he can go to the fifth district appellate court.

He has 35 days to do that, but we’re hoping he doesn’t. We’re hoping, at this point, he just cuts his losses, moves on and sells the property to someone who wants to make it into a viable golf course again.”

DeCunha did not respond to calls seeking comment by press time Tuesday.

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One of a kind The fourth annual Windermere Fine Art Show will be taking over downtown March 2 to 3.

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t’s the time of year where downtown Windermere is transformed into one big outdoor art gallery as hundreds of art aficionados flock to the town for the fourth annual Windermere Fine Arts Show.

The show runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 2 and Sunday, March 3. The pet-friendly event is free.

Each year, the town’s annual art show has grown in both the number of artists participating and in the quality of art on display. The town’s inaugural art show featured the work of about 40 artists; last year’s show featured 80 artists; and this year will feature 100 artists. Although the show has drawn artists from throughout the country, Anne McDonough, who coordinates and selects the artists for the show, traveled beyond the state to recruit artists for this year’s event.

The diversity of art on display has grown over the years as well.

Jewelers, sculptors, photographers, glass artists and even musicians and dancers will be part of this year’s show, McDonough said.

“The variety that’s being drawn to our show is more diverse than ever this year,” McDonough said.

“It’s not just oil painters. There’s pyrography, there’s sculptures,

Left: Photographer Carey Sheffield lives in Windermere and will be displaying her work in this year’s art show for the first time.

Below: Carey Sheffield took numerous photos to create this single image.

She’s in the center of the photo and hands surrounding her are her hands.

there’s glass. … We’re supporting the arts in general. To me, that’s what the show’s about.”

Funding raised from the annual show benefits a local nonprofit each year. This year’s show will benefit a nonprofit providing free care for mentally disabled adults and children. Funding also goes toward beautifying the town, McDonough said.

Photos courtesy of Ivaldo Robles

Above: Ivaldo Robles will be a featured artist at this year’s Windermere Fine Art Show.

Left: Many of Ivaldo Robles’ paintings are inspired by music.

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Painter Ivaldo Robles was selected to be a featured artist. Robles, who lives in south Orlando, has been painting all of his life and works with acrylics, oil paints and glass paints. Much of his work is inspired by music, and he also finds inspiration in nature. One of his signature styles involves painting on panes of glass and layering the panes over a painted canvas, adding dimension and perspective to the piece.

“I do abstract art that has reference to music and nature, and I like to represent my work in a

way that reflects different dimensions,” Robles said. “Sometimes, I work on glass, and what I do with glass is I start on canvas first, but then I continue (painting) on a piece of glass. … You get this effect once it’s framed. The canvas (is) separated from the glass about an inch, which gives you that effect of 3D. It also helps achieve different perspectives with different types of lighting on the artwork. You apply shadows that are sometimes reflected with translucent colors, so the shadows will be in color.”

Robles didn’t always incorporate glass into his paintings. In fact, he discovered this style of painting accidentally, he said.

“The idea originally came from when I was making a piece,” Robles said. “I had a frame sitting there with glass on it. I was trying to use that frame for something. I took the glass, and I was testing materials on this surface. I was just (using) different paints and checking colors and mixing colors on the piece of glass. When I took it off to use the frame, I laid the piece of glass next to a painting — a canvas painting that was close by — and I noticed the effect it created.”

To view samples of Robles’ work and to get into contact with him, visit his website, Ivaldoart. com.

CAREY SHEFFIELD

Photographer Carey Sheffield is no stranger to art shows, but this is the first year she will be featuring her work at the Windermere show.

Throughout her photography career, Sheffield has shot fineart photography, portraits, weddings and has even shot photos for nonprofit and social-impact organizations. Her photography work has taken her to other parts of the world. Last year, she traveled to tea-farm communities in Africa, India and China, taking social-impact photos for Twinings Tea company. Those photos were featured as part of an exhibit called “Sourced with Care” that was recently displayed at the Mall Galleries in London.

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er people,” Sheffield said. “When I capture anything out and about anywhere for the love of photography, I try and create a narrative behind it. … I use words and images.”

Sheffield will be displaying a 52-week, self-portrait project at the Windermere show. She began the project January 2018 and completed it last month.

Each image was taken and edited using different techniques. Each unique photo portrays different emotions, reflecting certain events that occurred at the time they were taken or shows an exotic place Sheffield has visited.

A narrative explaining what is being portrayed will accompany each photo. Sheffield eventually plans to turn the project into a book, she said. “(I took) one picture a week (for this) self-portrait project,” Sheffield said. “The reason for this project was purely for me. There was no commercial interest in it.

I wanted to grow my photography skills, so I wanted to introduce — over the 52 weeks — a different photography style, different editing skills, double-exposures, levitation, all these different elements of photography you hear about and incorporate that into my project.”

Those interested in seeing samples of Sheffield’s work and to getting into contact with her can visit her website careysheffield.com.

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In The First Academy’s 15-5 blowout of Berkeley Prep in softball Saturday, Feb. 23, Camille Mackedon went off at the plate as she went 3-for-3 with a grand slam to help push the Royals (2-1) to their second win of the season. Adding to the offensive onslaught was Molly Sheridan (who went 4-for-4) and Mariana Alemany, who added a home run, as well.

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The Olympia boys water polo team dominated on their way to winning the St. Andrews Tournament last weekend, which culminated in a 20-8 win over Winter Park Saturday, Feb. 23. Over the course of four wins through the tournament, Alec Johnson racked up 16 goals, five steals and three assists, while Luke Carey grabbed 16 goals and 15 assists.

Danny Cruz added 13 goals, eight steals and six assists, while Touma Mack hauled in seven goals, seven steals and 11 assists.

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In Windermere Prep’s dominating 17-4 win over Freedom in boys lacrosse play Wednesday, Feb. 20, Jackson Bennett went off for six goals and one assist to lead the Lakers (3-0) to a victory in their seasonopener. Through the Lakers first three games of the season, Bennett, an eighth-grader, leads the team with 12 goals.

This week kicked off the season for the first girls beach volleyball program at Dr. Phillips.

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ut at the beach volleyball courts at Dr. P. Phillips Community Park, a small group of high-school girls knock a volleyball around.

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It was an all-around team effort for the Dr. Phillips girls lacrosse team in its 18-3 win over Apopka Thursday, Feb. 21. Zariah Durham scored five goals and picked up four assists for the Panthers.

The high-school soccer season may be over for the Olympia senior, but Yorach has his eyes set to dominate at NC State.

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In Olympia softball’s 9-0 win over Tavares Friday, Feb. 22, Caryssa Orland had a big game at the plate and in the circle for the Titans. Orland would go 2-for-3 with three RBI and account for three runs herself. In the circle for the Titans, she pitched three scoreless innings.

ring out and jokes are made mercilessly. If you ask the girls, they will say it’s the best way for a team to bond.

The girls are members of Dr. Phillips’ first beach volleyball team, and for a group that has its first game — ever — this week, they seem impressively calm. Luckily

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After watching the clock tick away to end regulation time, nerves were high for Beto Yorach and his teammates on the Olympia soccer team.

It was the first round of the Class 5A state playoffs, and the Titans were knotted up at 1-1 with Hagerty, and heading to penalty kicks. Then, unfortunately, it was

all over.

The loss, during which Hagerty outshot the Titans 5-4 in PKs, was a blow and an end to Yorach’s short stint with the team.

“It’s kind of surreal,” Yorach said. “I only played high school for one season, coming from New Jersey, so it was a great experience.

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Travis Jordan Dr. Phillips High tennis player Travis Jordan already is back to his winning ways this season for his team, as he looks to follow up last year’s success — which included a district title. The sophomore has been playing competitively for three years. His favorite aspect of the sport is also the most difficult — the mental toughness it requires.

How did you get into playing tennis?

I’ve been playing tennis (competitively) for three years, but I played when I was a kid.

I played baseball for seven years, but I wasn’t having fun, so I switched over to tennis, because it was my second favorite sport. Every time I played it with my dad, it was the most fun I ever had. I feel like I have a better potential of going to college playing tennis than going to college to play baseball.

What’s one of your favorite aspects of playing your sport?

Tennis is not a team sport — you only have to rely on yourself; you don’t have to rely on anyone else, which I love.

What’s been your favorite part about playing tennis at Dr. Phillips?

Probably the people, my friends. Just seeing them after school, hanging out with them and going out to eat afterwards is probably the best part.

What would you say is the biggest challenge to playing this sport?

Every time you’re playing badly, your mind wants to tell you, “Just quit, you’re not going win this match. It’s over.” But you have to stay positive, even though you can get really negative when you’re playing. I get really mad at myself if I play badly, so that’s a problem for me — I play worse when I get mad at myself. It’s a mental thing.

What’s the best advice that you’ve been given by your coach (Nelson San Pedro)?

Honestly, it’s to just focus on the next point. Every single point just keep going. I remember last year, it was districts, and

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I won the tie-break 10-8, and I thought I lost the match so many times, but I just kept on fighting and somehow won.

Do you have any goals that you would like to accomplish this season?

I want to improve my (Universal Tennis Rating) a lot, I want to get noticed by colleges this year for tennis. For the school, I, of course, want to win states and beat Olympia.

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we all wanted to win and when the final whistle blew and we lost, we were distraught.”

After picking up 15 goals and 10 assists through Olympia’s successful 15-3-3 season — during which the Titans won a district title over West Orange — the senior midfielder now has switched his focus to his studies while he plays for local teams in the Association of Christian Youth Sports and the Central Florida Soccer League.

Although he now plays for a couple of teams, Yorach said he has a bit more free time; he only practices two to three times per week. But keeping himself active — while resting following a long high-school season — is much needed as he prepares for the next step of his career.

Starting in the fall, Yorach will call Raleigh, North Carolina, home as he begins play as part of the NC State soccer team.

Picking the Wolfpack was a pretty simple option for Yorach, who had some familiarity with some of the coaches.

“It was relatively easy, because at the (Red Bulls) Academy, you get looked at first by colleges, so if they really want you, they’ll contact you,” Yorach said. “They were one

When you graduate, what do you want to do?

I want to play D1 college tennis — if I could do that, that’s probably my main goal.

Getting a scholarship for that would be awesome. My dream school is UF. In your spare time, what do you enjoy doing?

Just going and hanging out at my friend’s house — I have a couple of close friends at this school. Anytime I can hang out with them is just perfect.

Do you have any hobbies that you particularly like?

I’m really interested in real estate — I want to do that for my future job.

Be a real-estate agent, create my own realestate company, invest in stocks and all of that stuff. I feel like that would be a really cool job.

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of the first ones there. Some of the coaches on the coaching staff I had already known from before, because they were at Orlando City before they were at NC State. So they already knew who I was and knew I was a good player.”

Yorach’s journey to this point has been one full of ups and downs. Although his selection was easy, the process leading up to it was anything but. A native of Orlando, Yorach spent four years as a member of the Orlando City Academy — where he worked on his game, despite having issues with the merry-go-round nature of coaches coming and going.

“We were trying to look for something more stable, where I would be able to grow as a player and hopefully get opportunities to train with the first team at Orlando City, but that didn’t happen,” Yorach said. “So we were like, ‘Might as well make a change and take a chance in New Jersey.’”

It was as simple as that, and Yorach made the move up north to train at the Red Bulls Academy. The differences between here and there were startling.

Right out of the gate the first, most notable, difference was the weather. He wasn’t in Florida anymore.

“When I got there the first day, my first practice, it was 18 degrees,” Yorach said. “So I went from 80 degrees in February, to an 18-degree practice, and I was just wearing one long-sleeve shirt, because I wasn’t ready for it.”

Over the course of the next 10 months Yorach adjusted to the cold and the new routine of extensive training, which coincided with his homeschooling.

It was in New Jersey where he also developed what he refers to as his “third lung” — a product of pushing himself harder than he had ever pushed himself before. By the time he got to Olympia, he was in the best shape of his life.

What followed was a strong senior season and the opportunity to make friends that he never will forget. But now, Yorach has his college career just ahead of him, and he hopes it can eventually lead to a career.

“The fact that they (NC State) are in the ACC was a big thing for me, because that’s the best league there is for college soccer,” Yorach said.

“I’ve always liked a challenge, so playing these challenges now, in college, can prepare me for hopefully making my dream (come true), which is to become a professional soccer player.”

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Dr. Phillips storms the beach for them, most know one another, and they’re just excited to get things started.

“It’s really cool to be a part of this, because it’s the very first one,” sophomore Kaley Landis said. “We all have good chemistry, because most of us are from indoor, so we already know each other. But when we go to beach, I feel like it’s more fun and less pressure.”

The newness of the program is not hard to overlook, especially when it comes to equipment — or lack thereof. Like any new program, you have to start from somewhere, and for first-year head coach Emily Loftus, it’s all about finding funds.

Just two days before their first match — scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 27 — the beach volleyball team was still sporting whatever leftover volleyball jerseys they had and were practicing with balls designed for indoor use.

But here’s the thing about these girls: They don’t care about that. For them, being able to play volleyball is a prize within itself.

“We started on a $0 budget, and we are playing out in a public park, and the girls are playing with indoor balls because outdoor volleyballs are extremely expensive,” Loftus said. “They show up and they do what they

need to. The first thing that they do is rake the sand before every practice, because they want to do this — I never have to force them to anything, because they love this game.”

With no beach courts on campus, the team practices on the two courts at Dr. P. Phillips Community Park and will play home games at Orlando & Tampa Bay Volleyball Academy.

Although there are going to be growing pains that come along with starting a new program, the talent Loftus has in place is promising. Most of the players, even if they have no outdoor experience, have played volleyball for DP and their respective club teams. Players such as Landis and Emily Evans have outdoor (and indoor) experience, while others such as Alexis Distasio and Olivia Osuna have been stalwarts on the indoor team.

“They were both the two most impactful indoor players that we had on Dr. Phillips team,” Loftus said. “They were just so standout, because they’re sophomores.

They have two whole years after this year, so they’re really, really excited about beach.”

Although outdoor and indoor volleyball have plenty of commonalities, there are significant differences. Unlike indoor, outdoor volleyball requires players to adjust to different weather

“… I’m excited to see what they want to accomplish and how far they’re willing to go to get to those accomplishments. I’m most excited about (them) being that impactful, history-making team.”

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conditions — which also includes dealing with wind, sun and the rainy days.

“That’s actually one of our biggest parts of our practices is learning how to deal with the elements,” Loftus said. “They have to check their wind before every contact. They have to check their wind before they serve. Is it cloudy? Is it sunny? They’re kind of like Girl Scouts.”

As Loftus prepares her lessexperienced girls for the art of outdoor volleyball, for players such as Evans, she already is helping her teammates — including partner Victoria Zarazel — with the basics.

“I just tell them different things to be prepared for, and I’ve already started working with my partner on different signals,” Evans said. “You really just have to strategize against the other team and work together. It’s more about finding weaknesses in one person, and attacking that one person.”

This team has the chance to begin a legacy, and although there are some goals that Loftus has in place that she’d like to see, the most important thing is that this group puts in the hard work while also understanding its role in the history of Dr. Phillips.

“As a coach, I always have so much fun with these girls, because they’re just a great group of kids,” she said. “But I’m excited to see what they want to accomplish and how far they’re willing to go to get to those accomplishments. I’m most excited about (them) being that impactful, history-making team.”

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