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Breaking News: Helder Valle Named Coach of the Year

Mr. Nick Fernandez, Athletic Director
January 29, 2026
Ms. Cristina Ramirez
Students, along with Coach Helder Valle, get to observe the director and program producers put on a live broadcast.
Hello, Royals!
It’s my pleasure to announce Coach Helder Valle is the Miami Heralds 3A-1A coach of the year. His first time receiving the coach of the year honors from Miami Herald. He did receive coach of the year in 2021 from NFHS.

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Ms. Cristina Ramirez
Ms. Cristina Ramirez, Adviser
Ms. Ramirez, the Media Department Chair, and Lexus Corporate Run Team Captain, is in her fourth year advising the Royal Courier and her third for iNklings, the literary magazine, having earned at BA in Broadcast Journalism at Loyola University, New Orleans, and an MS in Student Media Advising at FIU.  She began her journalism endeavors in middle school at St. Timothy, and continued in high school where she was Editor-in-Chief for the Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto. 
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