Male Athlete of the Month

Going All Out, All Games, All Season! Justin Fisher (21’) receives the Greg Schindler Male Student Athlete of the Month for April

By Alexa Grubbs

Throughout the boys’ soccer season at JW Mitchell High School, senior Justin Fisher played an instrumental part of the team. As a result, he was awarded the Greg Schindler Boys Student Athlete of the Month for April. Justin began playing soccer at four years old and started playing competitively at 10. Since then, he has come a long way, now playing varsity soccer at Mitchell all four years as their goalkeeper and as a captain this year.

“I play goalkeeper because when I first started playing, I always loved stopping shots and my coach suggested that it was a good position to use my height to my advantage,” said Fisher.

This year Fisher played 27 games as goalkeeper and a total of 102 games over his whole high school career for JW Mitchell, according to MaxPreps.com. He also has 231 saves this year with an average of 8.6 per match. Due to his work ethic, leadership, and performance, Fisher’s coach, Oscar Ubillus, nominated him for this award.

“From a nervous freshman to leading us to two consecutive state final fours, Justin has been a coach’s dream and, like his teammates, will succeed in whatever he chooses to do next in life. As our record-holder with most games played, leader, and captain he has represented himself, his family, and Mitchell Soccer with pride and class throughout his high school career,” Ubillus said.

On top of being committed to soccer, Fisher also played for Mitchell’s varsity lacrosse team. Juggling both sports, he adjusted his schedule and accommodated for both so he could be a team player to both groups of teammates.

“I had communicated with the lacrosse coach that our [soccer] team had a good chance to make a deep run in the playoffs, and he completely understood, so I focused only on soccer and then went into the lacrosse season following our loss,” Fisher said.

With Fisher in net, the soccer team made it all the way to the state semi-finals, losing 3-2 to. Niceville on Mar. 3 and ending the season 19-7-1. As Fisher’s time at Mitchell comes to a close, he still plans to play club soccer at the University of Central Florida and focus on his academics while at college.

At the Feb. 20, game against Wiregrass Ranch High School, Justin Fisher (’21) runs out of the goal to punt the ball down field, before taking a 2-1 win. Photo by Jillian Misemer