2018 Winged Foot Scholar-Athlete Award finalist: Ashlyn Goff, Everglades City

Hurricane Irma affected everyone in Southwest Florida to some degree, but perhaps nowhere more than Everglades City.

Dealing with that and the aftermath was just another challenge for Ashlyn Goff, Everglades City School's Winged Foot Scholar-Athlete Award finalist. 

Goff played four varsity sports -- two of them in the same seasons -- and was unrelenting, whether that meant doing a cross country meet or practice, going to school and then doing the same for volleyball, for example.

Or after Irma, when that meant she had to go to Golden Gate High School to train with its cross country team because Everglades City School was still closed due to the damage, then drive to Manatee Middle School, where the students were going, go to school and then do volleyball.

"It started to overlap real bad," she said.

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On top of that, Goff was a dual enrollment student at Florida SouthWestern State College, and she'd drive there too.

"Ashlyn is a rare student-athlete, one that only comes along once in a while if the school is fortunate enough," wrote Rebecca Welch, the volleyball, boys basketball and baseball coach at Everglades. 

"Ashlyn is the apotheosis of a scholar-athlete: striving for personal perfection but never forgetting she is part of a team," social studies teacher Carey Walker wrote in a recommendation letter.

"You learn to manage your time wisely," Goff, an eighth generation native, said in an understatement.

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Goff kept doing it wisely, enough where she's already put in the required time to get her captain's license and is planning to enter the U.S. Coast Guard.

"Once she makes the commitment, she will be the first female (to the best of my knowledge) to join any military pursuit in the 39 years that I have taught and coached at Everglades City School," Welch wrote.

Goff is hoping to make a career out of the Coast Guard, but not her only one.

"I want to do 20 years in the Coast Guard, retire, and then I want to start a second career," she said.

Goff will leave for two months of training in July in Cape May, New Jersey. When she officially gets in, Goff plans on attending college so she can become an officer.

Goff seems to have it all planned out but for one thing -- the second career.

"I'm not sure yet," she said.