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IMG Alumni Doing Well

Posted by: bbss23 on: April 25, 2010

For those of you that were here last year, you might remember the likes of; L.J. Mazzilli, Quinn Pippin, Adam Zabel, John Ryan Murphy and Jack Daru to name a few. After battling out their senior season here at IMG, they were ready to graduate and move on to the college and professional rankings. John [...]

The Editors 08-09

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 30, 2009

Senior Profile: Gerardo Alvarez

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 30, 2009

Gerardo Alvarez was born and raised in El Salvador. As he grew up so did his passion for golf. He came to IMG at the age of 14 and attended Pendleton school regularly. Although English is his second language he speaks it pretty well. He attended the David Leadbetter Golf Academy for 4 years with aspirations of becoming a [...]

Senior Profile: Nam Padung

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 30, 2009

Nam is a very happy person and his relaxed attitude helps him tremendously on the golf course.  His favorite player is Tiger Woods because he has the ability to win whenever, whenever, and maintain a cool calm and collect golfing attitude.  He is also a fan of basketball player Kobe Bryant because he “balls hard” [...]

Senior Profile: Jordan Rizzo

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 30, 2009

Jordan is an amazing golfer who takes life very seriously.  He is smart, dedicated and loyal.  He is inspired by Casey Wittenberg – a junior phenom who never took off like people thought he would. “He stuck it out through bad golf, low confidence, low money, and missed cuts, he kept working hard, he believed [...]

Senior Profile: Alex Drecksel

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 29, 2009

A first year Pendleton student, Alex made the move to come to Florida from little known Pocatello, Idaho. He was selected first team all-state as a junior and was not getting the recruiting looks he wanted. Moving to IMG would give him better exposure playing against higher competition. Alex did well this season, averaging about 15 [...]

Senior Profile: Nnamdi Ekezie

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 29, 2009

Nnamdi Ekezie, a Baltimore native, was always one of the leaders on the National team. Loved by everyone, Nnamdi was a friend to everybody. A valuble member of the team, Ekezie really developed this season coming off of a knee injury last summer. An athletic shooting/combo guard Ekezie worked hard on his ball handling and decision [...]

My Pendleton Experience

Posted by: janajohnson on: May 29, 2009

I have been attending Pendleton for about 5 1/2 years. I also attended IMG for 2 years playing tennis. It was interesting to see how the academy and school have changed over the years. Unlike most schools, it is common for a student here to only stay one or two years and then return back [...]

Senior Profile: Joel Menda

Posted by: janajohnson on: May 29, 2009

Joel Menda is 18 and a senior this year at Pendleton. He has attended IMG for 1 year and plays golf. The thing he enjoyed most about IMG was meeting all new people from around the world. He also said he liked the class schedule at Pendleton (having two classes a day). He was born [...]

Prom 2009

Posted by: janajohnson on: May 29, 2009

Prom was on May 14, 2009. It was a fun night that started at 5:00pm when everyone met up at the limos. While everyone was waiting for their friends to arrive, many friends and family were taking pictures of everyone. Once everyone arrived the limos began to take off. My limo was the first to [...]

Pendleton Leadership Corps 2009

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 29, 2009

Senior Profile: Patrick Waugh

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 28, 2009

Patrick Waugh, or Paco or Patty, or however you want to call him is also a senior at the Pendleton School. He plays baseball and is on the varsity team that only lost one game this 2008 – 2009 season .  The Pendleton team went 31-1 and won four tournaments.  Who knows, maybe Paco’s pitching [...]

Looking Back on Four Years

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 28, 2009

After being here for the last 4 years I can honestly say this was the best experience of my life.  I will never regret coming here because I have met so many new, great people and have made a ton of friends over the years. Many of these people I have met I will keep [...]

Senior Profile: Cyna Rodriguez

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 28, 2009

Cyna is a senior at the Pendleton school and has been at IMG for two years as she is known and liked by almost everybody across campus.  Cyna is one of the reasons many girls travel to IMG as they see her accomplishments and hope to follow in her footsteps.  She  has had a high school career far from [...]

Senior Profile: Walker Yaw

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 28, 2009

Walker’s name pretty much gets you all the information you need about him among the IMG campus.  Known for being a kid that enjoys himself and says and does what he wants for the most part.  Walker has been at IMG for two years now and will be moving on to play Division II golf [...]

Senior Profile: Brad Doliner

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 28, 2009

Brad Doliner is on my U-18 Academy League team and has become a good friend and team mate.  He has attended IMG for two years now. He has gone to Pendleton both years and studied under many different teachers.  Last year, he was an intrigal part of his U-16 Academy team and this year he [...]

Senior Profile: Matt Glodack

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 28, 2009

Matt Glodack first attended IMG during the second semester of last year. He played on the U – 16 Academy team and this year he became the MVP of the U-19 team. Matt was a very important part of the team and played many different positions ranging from center back to forward.  He has an [...]

Senior Profile: Julian Garcia

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 28, 2009

Julian Garcia is the type of guy that everyone wants on the field with them.  He is a hard worker on the field, but then again he isn’t all serious all the time.  He knows when to have fun, and play around too.  Julian is the type of guy that will come into the game [...]

Mr. Kennedy – the “Graduates Choice”

Posted by: xeniya on: May 28, 2009

Last week all of the seniors of the Pendleton school went to the senior beach trip, where we elected the favorite teacher of Pendleton seniors. And this is the teacher that I was fortunate to have this year for Current Events – Mr. Kennedy. Although not many people have him this year, all of the [...]

Seniors Night

Posted by: xeniya on: May 28, 2009

Seniors night is just around the corner, but unfortunately not too many people know about it. The way Pendleton officials told the students and parents about it, this night actually looks very promising, since all of those who are planning to attend will have a nice sit down dinner. Another reason for it to be [...]

Why is Graduation Such a Big Deal?

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 28, 2009

Why is graduation such a big deal? It is almost comical to me how serious graduation is taken, starting from the very beginning sending out invitations to, from what I can tell with the number of invitations I was given, over a dozen people. I know that it is a good accomplishment to graduate from [...]

Saying Goodbye

Posted by: pendletonpanther on: May 28, 2009

Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when you are not sure if it is forever. I hope that I see all of my friends from IMG at some point down the road but realistically there are some people here I will probably never see again. Even the people I will meet at some point in [...]

Senior Profile- Marc-Richard Culmer

Posted by: trubino on: May 28, 2009

Marc-Richard Culmer is from the Bahamas. On his free time, Marc- Richard likes to spend time with Patrick Waugh and Jack Repokis going to Smoothie King. Culmer has attended Pendleton for two years. He plays outfield. His senior year he only played 7 games because he hurt his knee. He finished the year with a [...]

Senior Profile: Tom Dragon

Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 28, 2009

Tom Dragon is a baseball player from Boston, Massachusetts.  He is a Red Sox fan and especially likes Ken Griffey because he always plays with a smile no matter the situation. Another favorite athlete of his is Roy Jones jr. the boxer.  Tom admires his cockiness and dominance. He is also a big fan of Harry [...]

Senior Profile: Abdul Sihag

Posted by: jnguonly on: May 28, 2009

Abdul Sihag is a senior here at the Pendleton School. Coming from Mombasa, Kenya he is one of the only representatives the David Leadbetter Golf Academy has from the continent of Africa.  Finishing up his 5th year at the academy, Abdul has seen many changes to the golf academy.  Moving around from three different coaches [...]

Senior Profile: Tae Lim

Posted by: jnguonly on: May 27, 2009

Tae Heung Lim will be completing his 5th and final year here at the Pendleton School. Tae has been here much longer than most students and has seen the Pendleton grow from a student body of 200 to a current student body of 430. “Day and night” are the words he uses to describe the [...]

Senior Profile: Michael Jorge

Posted by: dirkr on: May 27, 2009

Michael Jorge was born on September 26th 1990. He is a golfer and he comes from the Dominican Republic. He has been in the David Leadbetter Golf Academy for 4 years now. He has been at The Pendleton School since he was in 9th grade and his grades are rather good. Michael has shown very big improvements in the golf area. [...]

Senior Profile: Benjamin Murray

Posted by: dirkr on: May 27, 2009

Ben Murray was born on November 13th of 1991. He was born in Canada. He has been at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy for the past 2 years. He has improved a lot during this time and he has won once this year at the FCWT in Mystic Dunes. He will also play some AJGA tournaments [...]

Seniors!

Posted by: mfabry on: May 27, 2009

Seniors are finished with high school and are now heading off to college; juniors are now seniors and so on… The year is actually over, it is crazy to think I have been for three years and now we are all graduating. Prom was great and now we have graduation, I mean personally it is [...]

Senior Profile: Mike Yang

Posted by: dirkr on: May 27, 2009

Micheal Yang, a senior attending IMG Academies for the David Leadbetter Academy just won the matchplay event at El Conquistador. Its an event that The Leadbetter Academy just started this year and it turned out to be a pretty good event. The matchplay started out with the top 64 players on the money list from [...]



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