{"id":335359,"date":"2026-07-10T05:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335359\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:12:32","slug":"mens-basketball-signs-ethan-bergantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335359\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Signs Ethan Bergantino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0University of North Florida Men&#8217;s Basketball Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/bobby-kennen\/1540\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1540\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Kennen<\/a> announced the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/ethan-bergantino\/15346\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15346\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Bergantino<\/a>, a 6-3 guard from Calvary Christian High School, on Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter he returned from a season-ending ACL injury suffered in February 2025, Bergantino averaged 11.9 points, 5.6 assists, 4.3 rebounds and 1.9 steals in 23 games in his senior season in 2025-26.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBergantino was named 2025-26 District 3A-14 Player of the Year by both the Florida Dairy Farmers and the Florida Athletic Coaches Association and selected a 2025-26 Pinellas Private School Conference All-Conference Second Team.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBergantino\u00a0joins a high school class of <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/isaiah-brown\/15347\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15347\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Brown<\/a> (Stranahan High School, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/christopher-perry\/15344\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15344\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Perry<\/a> (Bradwell Institute, Hinesville, Ga.) and <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/asa-kohn\/15350\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15350\" target=\"_blank\">Asa Kohn<\/a> (Hagerty High School, Oviedo, Fla.) and\u00a0transfer additions of <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/ayuba-bryant-jr-\/15349\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15349\" target=\"_blank\">Ayuba Bryant Jr.<\/a> (Temple, Antwerp, Belgium), <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/eddie-placer\/15343\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15343\" target=\"_blank\">Eddie Placer<\/a> (Wagner, Orlando, Fla.), <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/elijah-elliott\/15345\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15345\" target=\"_blank\">Elijah Elliott<\/a> (Ohio, Orlando, Fla.)\u00a0and Hedrens &#8220;Jr&#8221; Bartelus (Chipola College, Lake Worth, Fla.).\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013\u00a0University of North Florida Men&#8217;s Basketball Head Coach Bobby Kennen announced the signing of Ethan Bergantino,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-335359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335359","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=335359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}