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Hardee County schools recognize administrators and celebrate swim team district titles

6688894 · October 23, 2025
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Summary

The board added recognitions for administrators accepted into Florida leadership programs and heard presentations from the Hardee High swim and dive team celebrating district championships and record-setting swims.

The Hardee County School Board added a late recognition Oct. 23 to honor local administrators selected for new Florida leadership programs and heard a series of school highlights focusing on the Hardee Senior High swim and dive team.

Administrators Suzanne Stagg and Zachary Harvard were named to the Florida Association of School Administrators’ Pivot program for principals, and two assistant principals — Jessie Roberts and Donna Block — were accepted into the Launch Pad program for first‑ to third‑year assistant principals. Board members praised the programs’ focus on the Florida educational leadership standards and on building local leadership capacity.

“The Pivot program will allow principals to develop vision, culture, instruction, operations and resilience,” an administrative staff member reported to the board.

Coach Britney Campos and members of the high school swim and dive team presented trophies and described a successful season. Campos said the team includes 17 girls and 22 boys this year; the boys won the district championship for the fourth consecutive year while the girls placed district runner‑up. Campos said the team will attend regionals next Thursday at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, and, depending on qualifying times, could compete at state championships in Ocala the following week.

Students who spoke described the team as family. Senior swimmer Coy Knight said the team taught him discipline and friendship during four years on the squad. Senior and boys captain Wyatt Haney said the program “teaches us a lot. It teaches us to work hard and get up in the morning and just put in the work to get what we want out of it.” Senior Sadie Herrera and team captain Mariah McCoy also spoke about records broken this season and the personal growth the sport fostered.

The board thanked coaches and volunteer staff — identified at the meeting as volunteer coaches Max Baker and Jerry Patterson, assistant swim coach Victoria Borjas and assistant dive coach Taneal Haney — and posed for photographs with the team after remarks.

The recognitions and school highlights portion of the meeting was presented immediately before the board’s action agenda.