{"id":344625,"date":"2026-07-18T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344625\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:49:10","slug":"south-florida-coaching-legend-bob-budnyk-honored-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344625\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida coaching legend Bob Budnyk honored after his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t A South Florida high school coaching legend is being remembered after his death Friday. Stay up to date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25Bob Budnyk spent more than 45 years at Cardinal Newman High School, where he helped build the school&#8217;s football program into a successful team. He became a well-known figure in high school sports and mentored generations of student-athletes.In 2008, WPBF 25 News recognized Budnyk as one of its &#8220;Local Legends&#8221; for his impact on the community.Budnyk was also inducted into the Florida High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame, honoring his long career and contributions to high school athletics.Former players, colleagues and community members are sharing tributes and remembering the difference he made both on and off the field.Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> A South Florida high school coaching legend is being remembered after his death Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bob Budnyk spent more than 45 years at Cardinal Newman High School, where he helped build the school&#8217;s football program into a successful team. He became a well-known figure in high school sports and mentored generations of student-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, WPBF 25 News recognized Budnyk as one of its &#8220;Local Legends&#8221; for his impact on the community.<\/p>\n<p>Budnyk was also inducted into the Florida High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame, honoring his long career and contributions to high school athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Former players, colleagues and community members are sharing tributes and remembering the difference he made both on and off the field.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Florida high school coaching legend is being remembered after his death Friday. Stay up to date:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[141256,56526,502,123434,5507,92126,28,30,29,70030,141259,141258,141260,141257,115,87523,221,189],"class_list":["post-344625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-budnyk","tag-colleague","tag-community","tag-contribution","tag-death","tag-fame","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-football-program","tag-former-player","tag-high-school-sport","tag-long-career","tag-mentored-generation","tag-news","tag-student-athlete","tag-weather","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344625","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=344625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}