Cocoa High alum Chauncey Gardner-Johnson gifts championship rings to 2022 football team
COCOA — At a ceremony held Friday afternoon at the school, members of the 2022 Cocoa High state championship-winning football team were honored with a nice gift.
Cocoa High football alum and Detroit Lions safety Chauncey Gardner-Johnson gifted players and coaches championship rings to commemorate the team's big win.
Gardner-Johnson last played football for Cocoa in 2015. After he graduated from Cocoa High School, he went on to play for the University of Florida prior to being drafted into the NFL in 2019.
At the start of the ceremony, the team was shown a video from Gardner-Johnson where he congratulated the team on the win.
Cocoa athletic director Mark Carstens also expressed gratitude to Gardner-Johnson for his kind gesture at the ceremony.
"His commitment, his gracious nature, his unselfish nature is unbelievable, and you can carry this out through your whole lifetime," Carstens said. "So, we appreciate Chauncey Gardener-Johnson for all he did and what he did for our program."
The Tigers went 11-3 in the 2022 season and won the Class 2S state title on Dec. 9 over Florida High in overtime, 38-31.
Earlier this year fans gathered at Riverfront Park in Cocoa to celebrate the program's fifth state championship since 2008.
The other state titles came in 2008, '09, '10, and '16.
This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Chauncey Gardner-Johnson gifts title rings to 2022 Cocoa football team
