JESUIT PERSPECTIVES • SPRING 2020 13
Brennen
Gil '20
(L-R) Seniors Brennen Gil (U. of Chicago or Northwestern), Milo Paman (Florida), Robin
Tionko (FSU), Connor McLaughlin (Stanford), and Nick King (Army West Point)
players signed in December: Brett
Gerena, Raleigh Oxendine, and Spencer
Williams. Another football player, Trevor
Mayberry, signed in February to play for
the U.S. Naval Academy.
Several Jesuit seniors are pursuing nationally
renowned arts programs. Top AP
Art student Vincent Girgenti will enroll
at the Ringling College of Art and Design,
and Riley Buchanan, an award-winning
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for the Jesuit Masque, was accepted
at numerous highly selective schools
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matic Arts at the University of Southern
California.
At least 27 Jesuit student-athletes from
the Class of 2020, including Class 6A
Baseball Player of the Year Camden
Minacci (Wake Forest) have signed to
play in college, among them football
standouts Connor McLaughlin (Stanford
University), Jonathan Odom (Florida),
Christian Jones (Florida A&M), and Lex
Capitano (Furman); State Champion
baseball players Jalen Niles (Florida
A&M), Henry Politz (Holy Cross), Alex
Bryant (Holy Cross), Bennett Lee (Tulane),
Turner Thompson (Tulane), Josh Mallitz
(Ole Miss), A.J. Karabenick (Wesleyan),
and Justin Clark (West Virginia); twotime
State Champion Ethan Basile
at wrestling powerhouse Northern
Iowa; and golfer Jimmy Paradise at the
University of Connecticut. Anson Rowe,
a straight-A student who was the state's
No. 1-ranked pole vaulter when the track
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offer to pole vault at William & Mary and
also is considering acceptances to the UF
Honors College and Georgia Tech.
The most highly selective schools in the
southeast continue to be welcoming to
Jesuit students. Among those accepting
multiple members of the Class of 2020
are Vanderbilt University (Farfante,
Bulleit, Teller, and Carter Cabassa, who
is also considering NYU and Fordham);
Georgia Tech (straight-A students Rowe,
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Forest (Ajay Vander Werf, Jonathan
Maingot, Mac Dierks, Parker Maddox,
and Minacci); and Emory University
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Seven Jesuit seniors have been accepted
to the University of Virginia, among
them one of Jesuit's nine National Merit
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standouts Sean Doherty and Bennett
Andersen. Doherty is considering UVa,
Northeastern, and the UF Honors College,
while Andersen, who is a National
Merit Finalist, straight-A student, and
All-County basketball player, also is
considering the UF Honors College,
among others.
Some seniors are pursuing unique,
������������������������������������Marshall Rowe, a
standout golfer, will enroll in the PGA
Golf Management program at Florida
Gulf Coast. Thomas Lahart will enroll at
Auburn in the school's Aviation program,
which is partnered with Delta Air Lines.
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tain Matthew Smith and possibly a trio of
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Daniel Prendes, and Luca Valenti.
Many more seniors have been accepted
to top schools from across the nation,
such as Jake Pratt (Boston University,
University of Miami), Henry Fleming
(University of Texas), Dominic Newberg
(Penn State, Ohio State, Minnesota),
Owen Shimberg (University of Colorado),
Andres Donovan (Franciscan University,
Fordham), Nicolas Mortensen (University
of Dayton), Charlie Mandt (UF, Fordham,
Loyola Chicago) and Alex Hames (San
Francisco, Fordham, Georgia), to name
a few. Also, some have found what they
were seeking right here in Tampa, such as
pre-med major Logan Agnew and tennis
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Solano, who will enroll at the University
of South Florida.
What's most important, director of
college counseling Fernando Rodrigues
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each individual student.
"It is an outstanding, well-rounded
group of young men," Rodrigues said.
"They have worked their way through the
process and found those schools that are
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life and beyond."