GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Florida High School Athletic Association is proud to announce the seven (7) newest members of the Florida High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

With the 34th induction class, the FHSAA Hall of Fame celebrates more than 103 years of interscholastic competition featuring some of the most accomplished student-athletes, coaches, administrators, and officials from the state of Florida.

“We are thrilled to celebrate the seven outstanding individuals and their impact on interscholastic athletics in Florida,” FHSAA Executive Director Craig Damon said. It is with great pleasure we introduce them as the FHSAA Hall of Fame Class of 2024.” 


 
The newest class of FHSAA Hall of Fame inductess is (in alphabetical order):

• Kenneth Brauman Jr., an esteemed track and field coach with over 50 years of coaching experience in the State of Florida. His boys track programs have produced eight FHSAA State Track and Field Championships, three State Runner-up finishes and 49 Region and District Championships since 1972. Brauman won two Track and Field State Championships with Palatka High School and six at Seminole High School in the 1980s and 1990s. He also won one Decathlon State Championship with Seminole High School in 1985.  Brauman has spent most of his career coaching at Seminole High School, where he enters his 41st year. Overall, Brauman has garnered over 532 dual and invitational wins. Brauman has been named Florida Track Coach of the Year 10 times and was named the National High School Track and Field Coach of the Year in 1997. He served and represented the United States in numerous international competitions as a coach and manager and he was the first and only high school coach to ever be selected as the head manager for the United States Olympic Track and Field Team in London, UK in 2012.  He is a member of the Florida Track and Field Hall of Fame, Florida Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Seminole County Sports Hall of Fame, Eagle Grove High School Hall of Fame, Golden South Classic Hall of Fame, Iowa Track and Field Hall of Fame and the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

• Darryl Burrows, an esteemed basketball coach who spent 28 years as the boys’ basketball coach of Dillard High School. Burrows ended his boys basketball coaching career with an impressive 625-175 record, seven FHSAA State Championships and four State Runner-up trophies. Burrows made 10 total State Championship appearances and is the only coach in Broward County, Florida to hold four consecutive FHSAA State Championship titles at a single school. Those four State Championships were won between 1999-2003.  Burrows is a 2017 inductee in the Broward County Sports Hall of Fame and has been named Coach of the Year several times by the Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald between 1995-2017. He was also named the Florida Dairy Farmers 5A Boys Basketball Coach of the Year in 2007-2008 and again in 2016-2017.

• Kendall Ellis, an esteemed student-athlete who is one of the most decorated track athletes in the state of Florida. Ellis holds seven FHSAA State Championships, winning four 400-meter dash state titles and three 4x400 meter relay state titles.  Ellis became the 8th student-athlete in Florida state history to win 4 consecutive 400-meter dash State Championships. She claimed these titles in 2011, 2012, 2013 and in 2014 with Saint Thomas Aquinas High School.  Her 4x400 meter relay State Championships were claimed in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Ellis also shined at the collegiate level at the University of Southern California as a 4-time NCAA Division 1 Champion, 14-time Division 1 All-American, and she won five Pac-12 conference championships. She was named the 2018 NCAA Division 1 West Region Women’s Track Athlete of the Year and the 2017-2018 Pac-12 Women’s Track Athlete of the Year. Ellis has also clinched medals in both the World and Olympic Games. She won a gold medal in the Women’s 4x400 Meter Relay and a bronze medal in the 4x400 Meter Mixed Relay at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and she is a 2- time World Champion in the 4x400 Meter Women’s Relay (2017 & 2019). Ellis is a member of the Bob Hayes Track Meet Hall of Fame Class of 2024 and she was selected to the Broward All-County Girls Track and Field First Team in the Sun Sentinel four times.

• Stephanie Gibson, an accomplished girls’ volleyball coach who in her more than 30 years of coaching, holds an impressive 843-237 record. Gibson has guided two different schools to nine FHSAA State Championships. As a head coach, Gibson won four State Championships with Winter Park High School and two State Championships with Miami Sunset Senior High School. She also won three State Championships as an assistant coach with Miami Sunset Senior High School. Gibson has three FHSAA State Runner-up trophies, has won 24 District Championships, 13 Regional Championships and 21 conference titles in girls’ volleyball.  In August 2022, she won her 800^th game, becoming the fourth coach in state history to do so. Gibson has coached back-to-back AAU National Championship teams and has been an OTVA Volleyball Club Travel Coach since 2000.  She was named the Metro Coach of the Year in Orlando 10 times, was named the Florida Dairy Farmers Girls Volleyball Coach of the Year four times, named the 2023 AVCA National Coach of the Year and was a 2-time finalist for the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Coach of the Year (2006, 2014). Gibson is a member of Pro Athletes Outreach, the John Wooden Foundation of Miami Coaches Wall of Honor and the American Volleyball Coaches Association.

• Miriam Jenkins, a trailblazing wrestler who became the first female wrestler in the nation to win a match at the FHSAA Boys Wrestling State Tournament in 1999. This was a record that stood for over 21 years. She competed for the Gainesville High School wrestling team from 1996-1999 and Jenkins compiled an impressive 60 career wins against male competition. In 1999, Jenkins became the first female in Florida to win an FHSAA District Tournament Championship and was the first female state qualifier in the history of FHSAA wrestling. She also competed in the Women’s High School National Tournament in 1999 and placed third. Jenkins entered the Marines and became the first female to join the All-Marine Corps Wrestling Team. Before leaving the United States, Jenkins was classified among the top women wrestlers in the country as she placed third in the 2002 U.S. Nationals and placed sixth in the 2002 World Team Trials.  Jenkins participated in the Women’s University Nationals in 2002, where she placed 1^st and was named MVP. She also participated in the wrestling Olympic Trials in 2004, where she was crowned the East Regional Trials Champion. Jenkins received the John and Helen Vaughn Award by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame-Florida Chapter in 2022 and continues to proudly serve her country in the United States Marine Corps. 

• Michael Kypriss, an esteemed tennis coach who in his 43 years of coaching and counting, has won a combined 17 FHSAA State Championship titles including 11 girls’ tennis and 6 boys’ tennis championships.  Kypriss has coached at Miami Killian Senior High School, Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, and Nease High School. Kypriss has an impressive career record of 1305-68. He has coached his teams to 14 FHSAA State Runner-Up finishes and 26 Regional titles. Kypriss is also a USPTR Certified High Performance Coach and USPTR Certified Pro 1 member.  Kypriss has been awarded the NHSACA Tennis Coach of the Year twice, the USTA Florida Junior Coach of the Year once, the Florida Dairy Farmers Tennis Coach of the Year six times, the NJFS United States Girls Coach of the Year once, the USPTR US High School Coach of the Year once, the Miami Herald Coach of the Year once, and the Miami Herald Tennis Coach of the Year four times. Kypriss also received the Miami Herald Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. He was inducted into the Florida Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2021 and the NHSACA Hall of fame in 2022.

• Freddie Williams Jr., a decorated contest official who has officiated 36 years of high school basketball in Miami-Dade County. Williams has made 18 appearances as a contest official at the FHSAA Basketball Finals throughout his career.  He has also officiated the FHSAA Basketball Regional contests for the past 31 years. Williams has served as the Booking Commissioner for the Miami-Dade Basketball Officials Association for over 20 years and continues to serve in that position. As the Booking Commissioner, he has sent over 60 contest officials from Miami-Dade County to officiate at the FHSAA Basketball State Championships. He serves as the FHSAA Lead Evaluator, which he has done for the past 22 years. While conducting his duties as the Lead Evaluator for the FHSAA, he has used his collegiate assignor duties in promoting over 150 officials from the high school level into collegiate officiating positions.  Williams has contributed as a State Series Evaluator for basketball and has coordinated officials training clinics for the FHSAA throughout the State of Florida over the past 20 years.  Williams was honored as the FHSAA Basketball Official of the Year in 2016. He also belongs to the Monsignor Edward Pace High School Hall of Fame in which he was inducted as a football coach in 2019.

About the FHSAA
The Florida High School Athletic Association supervises and regulates interscholastic athletic programs for high school students at member public, private and charter schools. The organization also recognizes and honors academic achievement among student-athletes at over 800 middle, junior and senior high schools statewide. Headquartered in Gainesville, it is the official governing body for interscholastic athletics in Florida.