Volleyball star Isabel Incinnelli leaves 7A champ Winter Park for Orangewood

By admin — In News — July 15, 2026

   ​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.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.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementNicole 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.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“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.”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 Agg  

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