Foundation Academy names new track-and-field head coach

Devin Bennett joins the Lions after serving as both the boys and girls track-and-field and cross country coach at Windermere Prep.

By Sam Albuquerque
| 12:23 p.m. May 21, 2025

Sports

Foundation Academy has announced Devin Bennett as its new track-and-field head coach. Bennett, a native of New York, set multiple school records in his running days. He placed fifth in the 2010 New York Indoor State Track-and-Field Championships.

Bennett went on to run cross country at the Division I level for Siena College and then at the D-II level at New Hampshire University.

Most recently, Bennett served as both the boys and girls track-and-field and cross country coach at Windermere Prep, where he coached various state championship qualifiers and led the boys track-and-field team to its first district championships this season.

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Sam Albuquerque

A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.