ORANGE PARK – St. Johns Country Day School girls soccer coach Mike Pickett has accrued a shelf-load of trophies in his 19 years of duty on the sidelines for the Lady Spartans and 2017 added a 12th team title and, now, a second Florida Dairy Farmers Girls Soccer Coach of the Year award, according to a Dairy Farmers release.

For boys soccer, Fleming Island High coach Frank Pontore and junior forward Reed Davis have been selected for the Class 4A coach of year and player of year awards. The all class award, the Dairy Farmer Mr. Florida award, will be selected on March 9.

Pickett joins an elite class of coaches who have won the all classes coach of the year award twice with coaches from soccer powers St. Thomas Aquinas, Gulf Breeze, Parkland Douglas and Melbourne previous multiple award winners. Laura Rountree of Parkland Douglas has won the award three times to lead the contingency, but Pickett may not be done with his team returning most of its starters next year.

The Spartans finished unbeaten at 25-0-0 with a sixth straight Class 1A title.

Creekside coach Brent Johnson, was the Class 4A coach of the year for guiding the Lady Knights to the Class 4A final.

For the Class 1A girls soccer player of the year, St. Johns junior forward Abbey Newton was selected for being the focal point of the Lady Spartans attack with 25 goals and 22 assists.

Bolles senior Leila Azari finished third in voting for the Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Soccer award; the all classes player of year award, with Newton fifth.

For Pontore, a return to the state final and a second win to pair up with his 2012 title, the Golden Eagles one-loss run to the state title was built around the 50 goals of Davis who time and time again answered the call in the final moments of many of the Golden Eagle wins.

Davis joins Sanford Seminole’s Ashton Neff, Taylor High’s Miguel DeLeon, Sarasota Cardinal Mooney’s Alex Turner and Lakeland Christian’s Tanner Molony in the final five for the Dairy Farmer’s Mr. Florida Award.

Pontore joins state champions Colin Ilgner (Weston Cypress Bay), Bob Robidoux (Melbourne West Shore) and Andy Warner (Tallahassee Maclay) in the coach of the year nominees across all classifications.