Benjamin senior Christian Cropp is one of 24 student-athletes from around the state who have been named to the Florida Dairy Farmers’ Academic All-State Team.
Benjamin’s Christian Cropp (right) has been named to the Academic All-State Team. (Michael Ares/Palm Beach Post)
Honorees are graduating seniors who received a minimum 3.5 unweighted GPA, while earning letters in at least two Florida High School Athletic Association-sanctioned varsity sports during their junior and senior years.
They will be honored at a commemorative banquet June 12 in Gainesville. Each student – 12 boys and 12 girls – will receive a $1,700 scholarship.
Out of the 24 All-State Team members, one boy and one girl will be named the “Ron Davis Scholar-Athlete of the Year,” the FHSAA’s most prestigious honor bestowed on any active student-athlete. The winners of this award will earn an additional $4,600 in scholarship funds – $6,300 in total.
Cropp, who will compete with the Bucs’ boys lacrosse team in a second-round playoff game tonight, has earned four letters as a varsity lacrosse player and golfer. He was captain of both teams as a senior.
He also is Benjamin’s student body president, serves on the school’s honor council, and has performed more than 500 community service hours.
He will play lacrosse at Yale University.
The other Florida Dairy Farmers Academic All-State Team members are:
Amanda Ban, Marathon; Natalie Baumgarten, Lincoln Park Academy; Madelyn Bell, Winter Park; Emily Boehlein, Gainesville-St. Francis; Marcella Bolenbaugh, Naples-St. John Neumann; Kristy Byun, Largo-Indian Rocks Christian; Sofia Caro, Fort Lauderdale-Pine Crest; Natalie Chapman, St. Petersburg-Northside Christian; Kristyn Kramer, Fort Pierce-John Carroll; Nina Staviski, Gulf Breeze; Alexandra Thomasson, Lecanto; Alison Walker, Hobe Sound-Pine School; Luke Bryan, Port Orange-Spruce Creek; Matthew DeSantis, Naples-St. John Neumann; Scott Ethecurry, Naples Barron Collier; Jack Fining, Punta Gorda-Charlotte; Logan Locascio, Gainesville; David Mahan, Fort Myers-Bishop Verot; Zachary Moser, Panama City-Rutherford; Daniel Orcutt, Fort Walton Beach; Alex Quinones, Bradenton-Southeast; Vinson Rafael, Miami-MAST Academy; and Ryan Savoldy, Hudson-Fivay.
