Palm Bay's Dan Burke voted into Florida coaches' hall

Following more than two decades as the head coach for Palm Bay football, Dan Burke has been voted into the Florida Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

He will be inducted with five others at the Daytona Beach Hilton Oceanfront Resort on January 11. Burke announced at the end of May his decision to step down from the position he held since 1996 after 214 wins, 21 postseason appearances and two state championships.

His 214 wins at Palm Bay is the most by any head football coach at Brevard high schools.

Inductees must have 20 years of coaching history in Florida. Burke, an Eau Gallie product who played football for and was inducted into the sports hall of fame for UCF, recorded 243 career wins, including a seven-year stint at Winter Park Trinity Prep before he took charge of the Pirates in 1996.

Palm Bay won state football titles in 2000 at 2002. His teams also won 14 district championships and reached the regional final round 10 times.

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It is the 44th year the FACA has chosen inductees for its hall, and this class was selected at the organization's summer meeting last week.

The class also included Mike Coe, former Madison County athletic director and football coach; Elmer Coker, former Perry-Taylor County A.D. and football coach; former Flagler Palm Coast girls soccer coach Pete Hald; former Centennial A.D. and basketball coach Steve Ripley; and former Hagerty and Boone football coach Phil Ziglar.

Local wins youth golf tournament

Melbourne's Asher Joseph, who golfs for Edgewood Jr./Sr. High and was the top boy on the coaches' All-Cape Coast Conference team for 2018, won his age group at the Future Masters tournament in Dothan, Ala., last week.

Joseph shot rounds of 65, 66 and 70 to finish ahead of Jack Roberts of St. Mary's, Ga., among 80 golfers in the 11-12 age range. Joseph will be a ninth-grader at Edgewood in the coming season.

Playing at Dothan Country Club, Joseph's total of 201 won the age group by four strokes and was nine under par.

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