Isabel Incinelli, who earned Florida player of the year honors for Winter Park’s 2025 state championship team as a 6-foot-5 girls volleyball star last fall, is switching schools to play her senior season for another Orlando-area power: Orangewood Christian.
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Her mother, Nicole, confirmed the move this week — saying Isabel will be reunited with girls who were her teammates when she first played club volleyball as a seventh grader in a program that was directed by Diane Langmo, who is now entering her 37th year as Orangewood’s head coach. Langmo’s daughter Kennedy, now a senior, was on that team.
Nicole Incinelli’s sister, Hannah McVay, is an assistant coach for Langmo. Hannah’s husband, Ian McVay, is the Rams’ boys head basketball coach.
“For Isabel, it’s a really unique opportunity this fall to be able to play with her aunt (Hannah McVay) as a coach, and being on a team with longtime friends,” Nicole said. “Orangewood has always been a very good volleyball team. It’s an opportunity to play high-level volleyball and with a very sweet community to cap off her high school career.”
Isabel also has strong family tree ties with Winter Park, where her dad, uncles and big brother played baseball; and aunts (including McVay) played volleyball. Her father, Matt, was a star for the Wildcats and UNF and a minor league pro. Her brother, Isaac, is entering his sophomore year at Clemson after batting .366 in a junior college freshman season at St. Johns River State.
Isabel was a three-year impact player for Winter Park, racking up 939 kills, 302 digs, 155 blocks and 75 aces for teams that went 88-6 with Class 7A state titles in 2024 (28-1) and last season (31-1). She led the Wildcats with 384 kills as a junior and was named state player of the year by Gatorade and MaxPreps.
“It’s disappointing of course,” said Stephanie Gibson, Winter Park’s renowned 27th-year head coach. “It’s not a bitter thing. We had a good discussion about it. We know she has family ties there.”
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Isabel played on an elite U17 Winter Park Volleyball Club team this spring and summer with Orangewood standouts Olivia Sosa and Elie Enger, one of the nation’s top sophomores. Her addition to a team that returned most of its top players from a 26-5 final four season makes the Rams a prime contender for the Florida High School Athletic Association’s new eight-team Open Division — alongside Winter Park. Orangewood also gained Peyton Mauldin as a 6-2 senior transfer from Lake Brantley.
Incinelli was one of six high school girls, along with 21 college players, selected in April for the 2026 USA Volleyball U21 National Team. She spent a week training with other national team girls at the Olympic volleyball training center in Colorado Springs and is due to fly home Thursday.
She committed to Texas A&M last June and plans to finish high school in December and enroll in January with the Aggies. She was as an in-person student as a ninth, 10th and 11th grader but will complete her high school credits as an online Virtual School student.
Class 2A Orangewood is much smaller than Winter Park in enrollment, but was not out of its league when it played the Wildcats in a regular season match last season. Winter Park escaped the Orangewood gym with a dramatic five-set victory (23-25, 25-17, 25-22, 19-25, 15-9).
The teams are likely to meet in preseason play at Winter Park, the week of Aug. 10, and are scheduled to return to the Wildcats gym for a Sept. 22 regular season rematch.
Extra points
- Donovan Williams Jr., originally a hometown basketball signee for UCF in November, flipped that decision after his senior season at Oak Ridge and signed with Georgia. Presumably with a bigger NIL deal — according to sources.
- Alyssa Novoa, a former area girls tennis player of the year for Apopka High, finished No. 3 in the Division II national rankings as a sophomore standout for Rollins. She entered the NCAA Transfer Portal in April and vaulted to Division I as a Tulsa signee.
- Lake Highland Prep’s Giselle Jaskiewicz, the Orlando Sentinel girls lacrosse 2026 Player of the Year as a sophomore, was also named best in the South Region by USA Lacrosse.
- The Sentinel girls water polo player and coach of the year — Vivian Swain and Ryan Ackerson of state champ Sanford Seminole (31-0) — also won Florida Dairy Farmers honors as best in the state.
- Lake Buena Vista was the Class 6A champ and Mount Dora the 4A winner of the FHSAA’s Fred E. Rozelle Sportsmanship Awards. Those annual honors go to schools that promote sportsmanship on and off the field.
Varsity content editor Buddy Collings can be contacted by email at [email protected].
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