FACA names its first female president
Jacksonville’s Tallie will make history, get 1-year term
The Florida Athletic Coaches Association made history this summer by naming a female as its president for the first time since the organization was founded in 1936.
Tammie Tallie, the director of athletes for Duval County Public Schools (Jacksonville), will be the top officer for the FACA’s executive committee for a one-year term. The organization includes about 5,800 member coaches statewide.
Former Boone and Hagerty head football coach Phil Ziglar is one of six coaches chosen for the FACA Hall of Fame this year and was also selected as the Dub Palmer Lifetime Achievement Award.
He will be inducted in a Jan. 11, 2020, ceremony in Daytona Beach as part of a Hall of Fame class that also includes Palm Bay football coach Dan Burke, who began his head coaching career at Trinity Prep.
Circle Christian bowling stars
The Circle Christian girls bowling team, state runnerup last fall, finished second at this summer’s 2019 U.S. High School Bowling National Championship held in Indianapolis.
The Centurions lost to M.P Harlem High School of Machesney Park, Ill., in the championship match at Royal Pin Expo Bowl.
Circle Christian’s national tournament roster included recent graduate Alexa Chambers and her sister, Ainsley, a rising senior, along with another set of siblings in soon-to-be senior Grace Bringham and her sister, Gianna, who is heading into eighth grade.
Macy Barber, who will be a junior in the 2019 season, rounded out the lineup.
The Centurions will miss Alexa Chambers, who placed 19th in the individual competition at nationals but are poised to again make a run at the state championship.
Oviedo’s girls finished seventh as a team and had greater Orlando’s top individual finisher in Amelia Vasquez, who placed 14th.
Brooke Roberts of Port Orange Atlantic, Florida’s 2018 state champion as a senior in the fall, was the individual third-placer.
Oviedo’s boys, the 2018 FHSAA state champs, struggled in qualifying and finished outside the top 32 teams in the challenging national competition.
Lake Mary’s Dylan Crews in MLB All-Star setting Saturday
Lake Mary High School’s Dylan Crews is one of 40 players selected to participate in Saturday’s High School All-Star Game at Progressive Field as part of the Major League Baseball All-Star Week in Cleveland.
The new event, which will be live-streamed on MLB.com at approximately 1:30 p.m., is a joint venture of pro baseball and USA Baseball, the national governing body for the amateur game.
Crews is a rising senior outfielder. The LSU commit batted .389 with 12 extra-base hits, 17 RBI and 28 runs scored as a junior for the Rams.
Windermere High School senior-to-be Carson Montgomery was named as a top alternate for the game after 80 invited players competed in three weeks of summer play and training in a new Prospect Development Pipeline League held at IMG Academy in Bradenton.
Montgomery went 7-0 with 75 strikeouts in 46 1⁄3 innings and a 0.60 ERA as a pitcher and also batted over .330 as a junior for the Wolverines.
The MLB All-Star Game is scheduled for Tuesday.