Voting for the Cape Coral Breeze Athlete of the Month for February is now open. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
There were a number of top performances from student-athletes in The Breeze coverage area during the month and now it\u2019s up to readers to decide who will earn top honors for the period. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Nominees for February include:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Kenlee Dominguez, junior, North Fort Myers Red Knights: The junior scored the game-winning goal in a 4-3 win over rival Mariner to help the Red Knights capture the 5A-11 District Soccer Championship.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jack Fish, junior, Bishop Verot Vikings: The junior netted the game-winning goal for the Vikings in a 1-0 win over Aubrey Rogers\u00a0to win a\u00a0seventh consecutive 3A-11 District Soccer Championship.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jayden Labbe, freshman, Oasis Sharks: The freshman dropped 36 points in a 73-62 win for the Sharks over Glades Central in District Semifinal basketball. Labbe shot 86% from the floor, made all seven of his three-point attempts, and added eight rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Robert Ballesteros, senior, North Fort Myers Red Knights: The senior helped lead the Red Knights to its first District Championship in 41 years in a 62-61 win over top-seed Cape Coral. Ballesteros led the team with 26 points, collected 10 rebounds, and added four steals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Paige Thomas, junior, Oasis Sharks: Thomas represented the Sharks at the FHSAA 1A State Weightlifting Championships. \u00a0She placed 5th in the state for the Olympic category and 8th in Traditional for her weight class.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cora Hayes, sophomore, North Fort Myers Red Knights: Hayes was the FHSAA 1A-11 District Wrestling Champion in the 125-pound weight class for the Red Knights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jaelyn Hoefer, sophomore, North Fort Myers Red Knights: The sophomore scored the game-winning goal in a 2-1 soccer win over Mariner to send the Red Knights back to the FHSAA 5A Final Four, and secure a third-straight regional championship.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Toby Pearce, senior, Mariner Tritons: Pearce is the District 2A-11 wrestling champion in the 150-pound division.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Athlete of the Month nominees are comprised of the Breeze\u2019s staff-selected Athletes of the Week for that respective month. \u00a0<\/p>\n
To vote, please visit\u00a0www.capecoralbreeze.com\u00a0and click the \u201cVote Now\u201d icon on the homepage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voting for the Cape Coral Breeze Athlete of the Month for February is now open. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 There…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-172088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}