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BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Being a scholar-athlete at Florida Tech takes an incredible amount of hard work and dedication to excel both in the classroom and on the field. In this Scholar-Athlete Spotlight, we are featuring Panther men’s lacrosse player Austin Engeler, a junior who is majoring in Civil Engineering.

Hailing from Davie, Florida, Austin was a Second Team All-Sunshine State Conference midfielder last season thanks to his 16 ground balls, 13 caused turnovers, and five goals while working in a heavily defensive role.

Through seven games this season, he’s posted nine ground balls, five goals and one caused turnover.

Engeler has been named to the SSC Commissioner’s and Florida Tech Athletic Director’s Honor Roll following each of his first two seasons with the Panthers, doing so in 2022 with a perfect 4.0 GPA.

With Austin in the midst of the demands of lacrosse season as well as his classes, he took the time out to sit down with us to explain how he makes it all work and how Florida Tech is helping him prepare for a career in the engineering field.

? What’s your major at Florida Tech and why did you choose this? Is it something that you’ve always wanted to do? So, my major right now is civil engineering.

I really wasn’t sure what I was going to do going into college, in high school I had a lot of math and sciences built up. I was at first leaning more towards construction management, but with those extra credits, I decided to go and take on engineering.

? What was it about Florida Tech that made you want to be here?

I have to go with the location, the location is awesome. It’s like a beach town, which is nice and I’m from Florida, I grew up in Fort Lauderdale. So being somewhat close to home, it’s nice when I need to go home, I could do it but it’s also far enough away to give myself some space and privacy.

? How do you plan to use your degree after graduation?

After graduation, I want to see if I can get my FE and P.E. [exams] done as soon as I can. The main goal was to go into the contracting side, but having a civil engineering background right now for project managers is what a lot of recruiters are looking for, just to have that super technical background. So, the main focus is to go more toward the construction side of it.

? What are some of the exciting projects that you’ve been able to work on in classes here?

I’ve got a couple of projects. During my freshman year, I was doing a lot of surveying, getting to use all kinds of cool equipment and stuff like that. Just taking field measurements that’s pretty real-world stuff.

Right now, I’m actually doing a water distribution system. I’m designing a neighborhood, small development, and I’m just planning all the water routing, how the water is getting to the houses, how the wastewater is leaving the houses, all the piping, the plumbing, all the pumps to push the water wherever it needs to go. I’ve also just started another project recently, designing steel columns for large structures.

? Lacrosse season usually spans nearly three months with plenty of road trips and practices in between, how do you keep everything balanced once the season starts?

Yeah, well, there’s not much sleep involved in that process. In the fall, it’s a little bit easier since lacrosse is a spring sport. In the fall, it’s about five practices a week versus the spring is six and you definitely feel the difference immediately.

There’s not a lot of time off. It’s a lot of discipline, and time management, for sure. You’ve got to be able to get sleep or else you cannot function throughout the day.

You’ve got to make sure you can stay awake in your classes because if you don’t stay awake, then you’re playing catch up trying to you know, figure out what’s going on every single day.

? How has being a collegiate athlete prepared you for what you’re doing now and what do you take from the field that you apply to your studies?

Being a college athlete has 100% helped me towards what I want to do because just getting up at 6:00 and 5:30 A.M. every single day for practice is definitely the real world for the construction industry, you work rough hours in that industry.

Playing a contact sport that’s as physical as lacrosse is definitely helps you to toughen up and be ready for the real world. Another major one is definitely discipline.

Our coach has super high standards and you can’t fall below that line or he’ll let you know. Every day is on time to practice, there are no exceptions for being late. On and off the field, academics are held very high. You’ve got to meet all the standards to play on the team here.

? What advice would you give to an athlete coming to Florida Tech that has an interest in Civil Engineering?

I would definitely tell that athlete to talk to current civil engineering majors that are playing sports because it’s one thing to say you want to be an engineer, but it’s another thing to actually go through all the classes and do it.

Coming in, I did not think it would be this difficult, but it is extremely demanding and extremely difficult.

So, having talked to current students and stuff like that might help you mentally prepare and know what you’re getting into a little bit more. It’ll have you ready for when it all hits you at once because there’s a lot coming at you.

? What have you enjoyed the most about your time with the lacrosse program?

Definitely, the group of guys that’s here, this program is definitely special. I’ve been on tons of teams growing up my entire life and the brotherhood here is like no other to be honest, it sounds corny, but it really isn’t because we’re all going through such hard classes.

You’ve got brutal practice schedules but when you’re enduring all of that at once together, it really brings you together to form a super, super tight bond.

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Five attorneys from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties are on the Florida Bar’s monthly list of lawyers disciplined by the state Supreme Court.

In alphabetical order:

Richard Chosid (admitted to the Bar in 1963) was the Paymaster in a transaction involving his client, John Thompson. When Chosid received $1.4 million, he distributed it as Thompson directed. Problem was, according to Chosid’s guilty plea for consent judgment, the money was supposed to be for “securing a letter of credit for a third party.”

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For failing in his fiduciary duty by not learning earlier how the money was to be used, Chosid will serve a six-month suspension that starts April 17.

Julio Cesar Marrero (admitted in 1988) was disbarred on Feb. 27, but that doesn’t kick in and he doesn’t get kicked out until Wednesday, March 29. He filed a motion for rehearing with the state Supreme Court on March 8.

As for why Marrero’s disbarred, according to the referee’s report, several parts of the legal system believe Marrero used bankruptcy filings and motions to slow collections or foreclosure actions.

For example, on Oct. 21, 2018, he filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition for Monticello 856. But a foreclosure action and deficiency judgment against Monticello and personal guarantor Omar Hernandez already had this case in post-judgment discovery in state court. OH Capital Collections was collecting the judgment. Hernandez’s mother was going to be deposed on Oct. 22, an event delayed by the bankruptcy petition.

Marrero, the Bar said in its complaint, “previously filed a number of bankruptcy petitions and removal actions related to the same debt at issue in the post judgment collection proceedings referenced above. These had all been dismissed by the bankruptcy court in a number of prior cases. Each of these prior filings coincided with, and obstructed, relevant dates in Capital Collection’s state court post judgment discovery efforts.”

Capital Collections filed to have Marrero’s bankruptcy filing dismissed. The day of the hearing, the Bar complaint says, Marrero claimed a medical procedure prevented his appearance. The referee’s report quotes a furious U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Laurel Isicoff:

“I find that this entity — actually, this law firm — is participating in an abuse of the bankruptcy process, and so it is appropriate to dismiss this case with prejudice for a two-year period, and I so find. Moreover, I am going to separately issue an order to show cause why Mr. Marrero should not be sanctioned, including restricting or terminating his right to appear in bankruptcy court, for filing what appears to be at least this frivolous bankruptcy.”

Isicoff’s opinion was shared by U.S. District Court Chief Judge K. Michael Moore, who referred Marrero to the Court’s Committee on Attorney Admissions, Peer Review and Attorney Grievance over his behavior in two cases. The Bar claimed there were 20 other cases in which Marrero pulled the same “bad faith litigation tactics, gamesmanship and dilatory tactics” as in the two cases Moore cited.

“[Marrero’s] modus operandi is to file a notice of removal without (1) a civil cover sheet, (2) state court records or (3) paying the filing fee,” the Bar alleges. “[Marrero] then does not respond to the court’s order’s to show cause.”

Marrero’s motion asks for a rehearing by claiming the referee decided the case based on a default to the facts as stated in the Bar complaint, a default to which he didn’t agree. He claimed the Bar submitted an agreed motion for default with a material change that required Marrero file an “answer” rather than a “response.” Marrero’s response was a Motion to Dismiss that was rejected.

Marrero said he chose “to limit this Motion to address a single oversight and misapprehension which the Bar and referee have caused, through bad faith tactics and a misleading record, respectively, and which has effectively deprived [Marrero] of his right to a trial on the merits.”

The state Supreme Court has yet to rule on this filing.

As general counsel for Tamarac’s Mainlands 3 homeowners’ association, Sabine Millien-Felix (admitted in 2004) filed a complaint against FPL, Power Secure and other entities, then neglected it. Millien-Felix’s guilty plea says “little to no significant action was taken” and it was dismissed for lack of prosecution.

Millien-Felix also neglected to tell Mainlands of her neglect or the dismissal. Power Secure successfully motioned to get its attorney’s fees paid.

Mainlands had fired Millien-Felix, but she still refiled the FPL case. When Power Secure said it was still owed $7,000 in attorney’s fees, the cases got combined. Mainlands agreed to pay Power Secure $16,887 and dismissed the refiled FPL case. Millien-Felix is reimbursing Mainlands for that $16,887 at the rate of $500 monthly payments.

She began her 90-day suspension on March 11.

Two Florida Bar letters, one on Aug. 2 and one on Aug. 24, to Joshua Moran’s (admitted in 2012) Bar address requested a response to a complaint. Neither got answered. Indeed, both letters bounced back as undeliverable. A Sept. 9 letter to the Davie home Moran owns also drew no response as did an email to his registered Bar email address.

“The Grievance Committee found that [Moran] failed to show good cause for failing to respond to the official bar inquiries and that the noncompliance was willful,” the 17th Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee “D” decided in November.

Ghosting the Florida Bar when there’s an official inquiry counts as contempt of court.

Moran’s suspension started March 19 and ends when he fully responds in writing to the Bar’s inquiry.

Longtime client Raul Gregorio paid immigration lawyer Susan Torres (admitted in 2011) to file an appeal with the Board of Immigration Appeals after his application for cancellation of removal of a non-lawful resident was rejected.

Torres did so, one day before the appeal’s due date. But, her guilty plea says, “the appeal was later returned and rejected due to inclusion of an incorrect alien registration number.”

When the returned paperwork landed at Torres’ office, her assistant grabbed it, made the correction and returned it to the Board of Immigration Appeals without telling Torres. The refiled paperwork was correct but late and “the order of deportation became final.”

Of course, Torres couldn’t tell Gregorio what she didn’t know. Had she known about the problem, she “maintains ... she would have notified her client, preserved the original filing date for the appeal and cured any deficiencies.”

Gregorio is still in the United States while another lawyer deals with his situation. Torres refunded Gregorio his money and has been publicly reprimanded.

Florida’s newest batch of medical school graduates want to become internists, psychiatrists and other higher-paying specialties.

What few want to become are emergency medicine doctors, one of the most needed jobs in Florida.

Nationally, in this year’s match day on March 17, when medical school graduates are assigned to hospitals that will train them, 555 positions in emergency medicine went unfilled, more than double the 219 unfilled positions last year.

Florida’s 10 medical schools graduated 795 future doctors who matched and will begin their residencies in the summer and fall. Of those, only 60 Florida medical school graduates will take a resident position in emergency medicine, representing only 7% of the class, according to data provided to the South Florida Sun Sentinel by the medical schools.

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In Florida, the usage of emergency rooms had been rising each year pre-pandemic, according to Florida Department of Health data. More than 8 million people visited Florida’s emergency rooms in 2021, the data shows. The emergency departments at Florida hospitals bear the brunt of the country’s public health failures, with an increasing flood of uninsured who use it for primary care.

The concern is that a physician shortage could affect access to care and create long waits in the emergency room.

In a joint statement, emergency medicine physician organizations said that with the recent pandemic, it is a challenging time for the specialty. Reasons for the shortage of ER doctors include everything from COVID-19 pandemic burnout to increased clinical demands.

Finances play a role, too. Emergency medicine residents tend to have the highest debt of any specialty, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians.

On Friday, James McAlister, a 29-year-old graduate from the NSU Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine in Davie, learned he will become an emergency medicine resident at Yale.

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“I like the idea of taking care of everyone from all socio-economic backgrounds and being on the front line,” McAlister said. “It’s also a lifestyle issue. When your shift is done, you are done and can go home and unwind.”

Florida’s medical school deans say the state’s health systems need to offer incentives to lure future doctors into the areas of greatest need. Suggestions include loan forgiveness and additional government-funded Graduate Medical Education slots to help train and retain medical students.

“We cannot force them or twist their arms to go into certain specialties,” said Dr. Johannes Vieweg, dean of the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine at Nova Southeastern University. “We provide them with information on national trends.”

“Most medical students are about $200,000 in debt once they start their residency,” Vieweg said. “That’s a big factor for what they are choosing.”

Where residents are heading

This year, many chose primary care.

In the face of a serious and growing shortage of primary-care physicians across the U.S., there was a record number of primary-care positions offered this year both nationally and in Florida.

Of the senior medical students at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, 30% will train as residents in primary care, the first stop in their journey as doctors.

Primary care includes family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatric medicine, and geriatric medicine physicians — all areas of need in Florida, which is projected to have a shortage of 5,974 “traditional primary care” specialists by 2035, according to a report commissioned by the Florida Safety Net Hospital Alliance and the Florida Hospital Association.

Nearly 10% of active physicians in Florida — about 5,100 — plan to retire in the next five years, Florida’s Physician Workforce report shows. Even though emergency medicine is the youngest specialty among Florida physicians, there has been a slight increase in those who plan to retire or relocate out of the state.

Psychiatry surfaced as a desired specialty among this year’s Florida medical school graduates.

One future psychiatrist learned Friday he matched at Broward Health and explained why he and his fellow medical students want to pursue the specialty. “With the pandemic, we all see that there is a lot of need,” said Amar Gill, a graduate of NSU Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine in Davie.

Regardless of what specialty they choose, doctors are in demand in Florida, and experts predict the physician shortage will only get worse.

Florida’s 10 medical schools now track the percentage of their matches who will stay in the state — the average is about 40%. At University of Miami, 35% of the 210 graduates will train in Florida. At Florida International University, 48% of the 117 graduates will train in Florida. At NSU, 55% of the 52 graduates will train in Florida, and at Florida Atlantic University 28% will stay in the state for their residencies.

Florida also has two schools that graduate doctors of osteopathic medicine, known as D.O.s. Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine will graduate 176 students and 50% will do their residency training in Florida. NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine will graduate 375 future doctors, of which about 47% will train in Florida.

In Florida, the future of medicine is female

The American Medical Association has noted more women are applying to and entering medical school than ever before. Florida’s M.D. class of 2023 is 52% female, according to statistics reported to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Among them is Esther Duqueney of Fort Lauderdale, who wanted to be a doctor from an early age despite having no physicians in her Haitian American family

Duqueney, who attended the University of Florida College of Medicine, will train in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Duqueney told the Gator Medical News she wants to pursue further training in adult cardiology and tackle health care disparities as a clinician and researcher.

“Women in the past were underrepresented in medicine but that has changed as time has gone on,” said Dr. Patricia Rowe-King, designated institutional official for Broward Health. “We want our physicians to look like the community we serve. We want to train both.

Women still are under-represented in certain medical specialties such as surgical sub-specialties, Rowe-King said. “As we look at our own residency program we focus on having holistic interviews so we are attractive to candidates who are both male and female.”

Broward Health accepted 94 residents in this year’s match from out of state and from all but one of the medical schools in Florida.

“About 60 to 65% of people who train in our state will practice in our state,” Rowe-King said. “We want to retain as many physicians as we can.”

Sun Sentinel health reporter Cindy Goodman can be reached at [email protected] or Twitter @cindykgoodman.

Robeisy Ramirez (11-1, 7 KOs) and Isaac Dogboe (24-2, 15 KOs) square off in the main event at Hard Rock Hotel And Casino Tulsa in Catoosa, OK on Saturday, April 1. The contest features two-time Olympic gold medalist from Cienfuegos, Cuba up against Ghanaian-British former WBO junior featherweight champion. The pair battles it out for the vacant WBO featherweight title. The world championship bout is scheduled for 12 rounds. Several tickets for the event are still currently available for purchase. The date when Ramirez vs Dogboe airs live in Australia is Sunday, April 2.

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In the ten-round co-main event, two-time world title challenger Joet Gonzalez (25-3, 13 KOs) of Glendora, California takes on Texcoco, Mexico’s Jose Enrique Vivas (22-2, 11 KOs) at featherweight. Among Ramirez vs Dogboe undercard bouts, a native of Queens, New York, Jahi Tucker (9-0, 5 KOs) faces Gori, Georgia-born Nikoloz Sekhniashvili (8-1, 6 KOs), residing in Davie, Florida, in an eight-rounder at junior middleweight.

As well, Emiliano Vargas (3-0, 2 KOs) of Oxnard, California meets Iowa’s Edgar Uvalle (2-3-2, 2 KOs) in a four-rounder at lightweight. Plus, Cleveland, Ohio’s Tiger Johnson (7-0, 5 KOs), who represented the U.S. at the Tokyo Olympics, goes up against Alfonso Olvera (12-7-3, 3 KOs) of Nogales, Mexico in an eight-rounder at junior welterweight. In addition, Dante Benjamin (5-0, 3 KOs) Jr of Cleveland, Ohio duels Jasper McCargo (4-3-2, 2 KOs) of Monterey, California in a six-rounder at light heavyweight. The full lineup can be found below.

Ramirez vs Dogboe tickets

Robeisy Ramirez vs Isaac Dogboe tickets to witness all the action at Hard Rock Hotel And Casino Tulsa in Catoosa, OK on Saturday, April 1 are on sale.

Ramirez vs Dogboe tickets can be purchased through Vivid Seats, StubHub and TicketNetwork.

How to watch Robeisy Ramirez vs Isaac Dogboe in USA

Boxing fans in the United States can watch Robeisy Ramirez vs Isaac Dogboe live stream on ESPN+. The date is Saturday, April 1. The start time is scheduled for 9 pm ET / 6 pm PT.

The main event fighters are expected to make their ringwalks at approximately 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT.

How to watch Robeisy Ramirez vs Isaac Dogboe in Australia

Robeisy Ramirez vs Isaac Dogboe live stream in Australia is yet to be confirmed. The date is Sunday, April 2. The start time is scheduled for 12 pm AEDT.

The main event fighters are expected to make their ringwalks at approximately 1 pm AEDT.

Boxing fans can also connect via VPN, such as ExpressVPN, and live stream Ramirez vs Dogboe on ESPN+ from practically anywhere.

Ramirez vs Dogboe fight card

The current Ramirez vs Dogboe lineup can be found below. The finalized fight card is expected to be announced shortly.

Main card

Undercard

The Miami Hurricanes toughed their way into the NCAA men’s Final Four on Sunday night in the biggest victory in the history of basketball at the university.

Coach Jim Larranaga had said before the Elite Eight game against favored Texas that he envisioned hearing “One Shining Moment,” the song that has played at the end of every NCAA Tournament since 1987, and celebrating with his players on the court as the season ended.

He still has that chance.

The confetti is waiting on the Canes.

Miami -- the “football school” that once canceled basketball for 15 years because the sport didn’t matter on campus -- is now two wins from a first national championship on the hardwood.

The 88-81 triumph over No. 2 Texas did that. By a UM team seeded No. 5. A team that was a 10-point underdog. A team hat trailed by 13 points in the second half.

Heart. Miami’s was beating hard and fast. Beating anything in its path.

“I love these guys,” said Larranaga. “The last 10 minutes, our defense, rebounding and scoring was at a very high level.”

It was 17 years ago to the day on Sunday when Larranaga accomplished what nearly eluded him this time: the Final Four.

In 2006 his George Mason University team made it that far as a Cinderella in sneakers way back then.

In 2023 his Hurricanes rallied heroically enough in the regional in Kansas City to catapult to the Final Four in Houston.

“It’s the same exhilaration,” said Larranaga. “Jubilation.”

UM won March Madness tests over No. 12 Drake, No. 4 Indiana, a stunner over No. 1 Houston and now a second-seed.

It was the second straight Elite Eight appearance for Larranaga’s Canes, and they got it right this time.

Miami’s No. 9-seed women’s team did not fare as well later Sunday, losing 54-42 to No. 3 LSU in the Elite Eight in Greenville, S.C., trying but failing to do what the men’s Canes had just done.

The UM women got it close with a late 8-0 run but ultimately were doomed from long range, going 0-for-15 on three-point shots -- still an historic season with the program’s first run to Sweet 16 in 31 years and first time ever to the Elite Eight. A poignant moment at the end when coach Katie Meier had a long embrace with departing fifth-year senior Destiny Harden.

“If you like 3-point shooting, not a very exciting game,” as Meier put it. “The little round thing didn’t go into the big round thing for Miami, and that’s a frustrating thing to happen.”

Of Harden, Meier said, “You have changed this program, and we’re never looking back.”

There is otherwise major celebrating going across South Florida basketball, and not just in Coral Gables and where UM fans are found for the men’s Canes.

? The No. 9 Florida Atlantic University Owls from Boca Raton and Conference USA had earlier reached the Final Four and will face No. 5 San Diego State in one Final Four semifinal this coming Saturday. Despite a 30-3 regular season record the Owls fit the Cinderella role, getting this far in their first NCAA Tournament in 21 years. FAU had never won a national tournament game until this month.

Miami and No. 4 UConn will meet in the less-unexpected other Final Four semi.

The possibility of a Miami vs. FAU all-South Florida championship game matchup looms a possibility still.

? And the Nova Southeastern University Sharks from Davie crowned a perfect 36-0 season with the school’s first Division II national championship. This was no FAU-like surprise, though. Coach Jim Crutchfield’s Sharks have been 69-1 over the past two seasons.

Miami with its watershed program moment earns the top of the marquee, though.

So does star of the night Jordan Miller, who scored 27 points for the Canes and put up a perfect game if there can be such a thing: 7-for-7 in field goals and 13-for-13 on free throws. Miami was 24 for 25 from the free throw line in the second half. Miller’s was only the second perfect shooting game in the past 60 NCAA tourneys; the other was by Christian Laettner.

“The game Jordan Miller had is ridiculous,” said Larranaga. “He’s the most underrated player in the country. Twenty-seven points on seven shots!?”

“It’s not over,” said Miller.

Miller, Isaiah Wong and Nigel Pack all made the all-tournament team for Miami; Pack was named most outstanding player.

This was the team from the school that once discontinued basketball altogether.

The team from the “football school.”

Today only four men’s teams in America are left to play for college hoop’s biggest prize.

For the first time ever, the Miami Hurricanes are one.

“Everybody’s been overlooking Miami basketball for a long while,” said Miller.

Not now. No more.

This story was originally published March 26, 2023, 5:07 PM.