The Breeze Newspapers is celebrating student-athletes this week with the announcement of our annual year-end awards. <\/p>\n
In Friday\u2019s edition, readers will find a special section honoring Breeze Newspapers Athletes of the Week throughout the year, as well the announcement of our staff-selected male and females Athletes of the Year, Team of the Year, and Coach of the Year. A special video presentation can be viewed on The Breeze website and social media platforms. <\/p>\n
The Breeze Newspapers is also announcing that voting opens today, June 5, for our fan-voted Reader\u2019s Choice Athlete of the Year. <\/p>\n
This year\u2019s nominees are:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Kaliyah Williams of North Fort Myers High School<\/p>\n
\u2022 Austin Kluener of Bishop Verot High School<\/p>\n
\u2022 Kelsi Longabardi of Mariner High School<\/p>\n
\u2022 Bennett Sweitzer of Bishop Verot High School<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jaelyn Hoefer of North Fort Myers High School<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jermaine Skinner of Cape Coral High School<\/p>\n
\u2022 Nikolas Korf of Ida Baker High School<\/p>\n
\u2022 Austin Schoolcraft of Island Coast High School<\/p>\n
Voting for the Reader\u2019s Choice Athlete of the Year begins June 5 and runs through noon on June 11. <\/p>\n
To vote, visit www.capecoralbreeze.com and click the link on the homepage, or visit capecoraldailybreeze2.secondstreetapp.com\/Athlete-of-Year-2026-Readers-Choice\/.<\/p>\n
Our Athlete of the Week program, that features two local student-athletes from our area, was distributed in print, online and via social media each and every week.<\/p>\n
We graciously thank each school and their coaches and staff for working with us this year to help make this a reality, and are looking forward to continuing to grow this program \u2014 for our students, in our area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Breeze Newspapers is celebrating student-athletes this week with the announcement of our annual year-end awards. In Friday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-300639","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\/300639","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=300639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}