High school sports news

David Lowrey, a senior wide receiver on the Orangewood Christian School in Maitland varsity football team, has chosen to play football next season at Elon University in Elon, N.C., as a preferred walk-on. Lowrey led Central Florida, in all eight FHSAA classifications, with 14 touchdowns this season, was second in receiving yards with 954, and averaged 23.3 yards a catch. This season he had more than 1,700 all-purpose yards with a total of 22 touchdowns. For his career at Orangewood, David had 3,923 all-purpose yards and 52 touchdowns. Additionally, he carries above a 4.0 grade point average, is a member of the National Honor Society, and plays centerfield on the Rams baseball team that were State Semi-Finalists in 2010 and State Runner-up in 2011. He is the son of Mark and Susan Lowrey and has three brothers – Mark, 21, Brian, 19, and John, 14.

Tomas Nido, a senior catcher at Orangewood Christian School in Maitland, has been named by the staff at Collegiate Baseball as a First Team Pre-Season Louisville Slugger Baseball All-American. Nido is considered one of the top high school catchers in the country and has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball at Florida State University in the fall. In 2011, Tomas broke the Central Florida single season homerun record with 17 homeruns, posted a .577 batting average and had 64 RBIs. He was instrumental in leading the 2011 Rams to a FHSAA 2A State Runner-up finish and his 17 homeruns led a team that broke the Florida High School homerun record for a single season with 83 homeruns. This past fall, Tomas was chosen by the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee to participate in the Pan American Junior Baseball Tournament held in Cartagena, Colombia.

Orangewood Christian sophomore Forrest Wall was named by Collegiate Baseball as one of the top high school baseball players in Florida. In 2011, Wall had a .404 batting average with four homeruns and 22 RBI. This past fall, he was invited to the USA Baseball 16 and under trials in North Carolina and in 2012, he hopes to lead the Rams back to the FHSAA State Baseball Final Four.

Alexis Prince of Edgewater High School has joined the ranks of high school basketball's elite with her selection to the 2012 McDonald’s All-American High School Basketball Girls East Team. Announcement of her selection came during a Feb. 9 selection show on ESPNU. The 11th Annual Girls Game will tip off at 6 p.m. Central Time on Wednesday, March 28, inside Chicago’s United Center, and will broadcast live on ESPNU.

Alexis Prince will join 23 other top female prep players throughout the country. As a member of the Edgewater Eagles team, she hit the 1,000-point mark by her sophomore year. Prince’s high school coach is Malcolm Lewis. She has signed with Baylor University.

“We couldn’t be more excited about Alexis receiving this great honor,” Orlando McDonald’s Owner/Operator Jim Gilchrist, a former basketball player himself, said. “She epitomizes what it means to be a student athlete. Not only is she setting records on the court, but she is making her mark in the classroom as well, as a National Honor Society scholar.”

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