Dave Silverberg wasn't done racking up football accolades.
The eight-time state champion was named the Florida Dairy Farmers High School Girls Soccer Coach of the Year on Tuesday after leading Ponte Vedra to the Florida High School Athletic Association Class 6A title in early March. Ta.
The Sharks outscored their opponents 84-11 along the way, finishing the year with a 22-1-1 record and finishing the postseason at the top of the national rankings by both United Soccer Coaches and MaxPreps Formula.
Silverberg, the only coach in the history of the Ponte Vedra program, is the 2021 recipient of the Florida Dairy Award. He has now won eight FHSAA championships in his career, including four with Nice (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008) and four with Ponte Vedra (2009). It is. , 2012, 2021, 2024).
His award marks the fifth consecutive year that a St. Johns County coach has won the state award. Bartram Trail's Jen Rodriguez won Coach of the Year in 2020 and 2023, while Creekside's Joe Soto tied for first place in 2022 with Bishop Moore's Amy Goertz. .
Soto, who led Creekside to its second Class 7A title, finished fourth in this year's voting.
Other girls soccer coaches in Northeast Florida who received all-state honors include Frank Adsit of Bolles (1995), Rod Kenney of Orange Park (1996) and St. John's Country Day's Mike Pickett (2012, 2017, 2018) and Matt Tracy of Bolles (2015).
Ponte Vedra sophomore winger Natalie Brooks, who scored 21 goals, placed fourth in voting for the Florida Dairy Farmer's Miss Soccer Award, which went to Cape Coral Mariners senior forward Riley Acosta. . Acosta, who signed with Florida, had 26 goals and 29 assists.
In the Miss Soccer voting, Lakeland Christian's KJ Straub came in a close second place, and Clermont East Ridge's Kayla Jackson took third place.