2019 Mini Max High School Award winners

Written by: David Mika on Wednesday, December 4th, 2019. Follow David Mika on Twitter.

Maxwell Football Club President, Mark Dianno, announced the 2019 Mini Max High School Award winners for the state of Pennsylvania. The sixty-three players selected are from schools located in Districts 1,3,11 and 12 in the eastern half of the state. Players were nominated by their coaches throughout the 2019 season and were evaluated based on a criteria that includes; football performance, academics, and community service.

The Mini Max Award recipients will be honored at a dinner to be held on Thursday January 9, 2020 at the Drexelbrook Catering Ballroom in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. The awards dinner is open to the public and tickets are available on the Club’s website www.maxwellfootballclub.org.

The Maxwell Football Club will select one player from the group of Mini Max winners as the winner of the Pennsylvania High School Player of the Year. The Pennsylvania High School Player of the Year will be announced on January 9, 2020 at the Awards Dinner.

For the 7th year the Maxwell Football Club will also host a New Jersey Mini Max Awards Dinner which will be held on Sunday January 26^th at the St. David the King Hall in Princeton Junction, NJ. Players from the entire state of New Jersey will be eligible for selection as part of this program. The New Jersey Mini Max Award Winners and the New Jersey High School Player of the Year will be announced at this event.

The MFC will also honor players from the state of Delaware with Mini Max Awards as part of the Delaware Interscholastic Football Coaches Association dinner in late January.

The winner of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware Player of the Year awards will be the candidates for the Club’s 34th Jim Henry Award as the Outstanding Player in the region. The winner of the Jim Henry Award will be announced as part of the Maxwell Football Club’s National Awards Gala which will be held on March 6, 2020 at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City, NJ. The MFC will also present its collegiate and professional awards at this event.

Recent winners of the Jim Henry Award include Keith Maguire (Malvern Prep – Clemson), Shayne Simon (St. Peters Prep – Notre Dame), Jonathan Taylor (Salem H.S. – Wisconsin), Brandon McIlwain (Council Rock North H.S – South Carolina/Cal), Kyle Shurmur (LaSalle College H.S. – Vanderbilt), Mark Pyles (Lebanon H.S – Bucknell Univ.) Fran Walsh (Archbishop Wood H.S – Villanova Univ.), Brendan Nosovitch (Allentown Central Catholic – University of South Carolina), Bill Kim (Upper Dublin H.S – Johns Hopkins), Brad Herzlich (Conestoga H.S – Brown University), Daniel Persa (Bethlehem Liberty H.S – Northwestern.), Brent Caprio (Mainland Regional H.S. – William & Mary), Steven Rizzo (Audubon H.S. – Colgate), Pat Devlin (Downingtown East H.S. – Delaware), Ryan Greiser (Pennridge H.S. – Liberty Univ.), Dan Connor (Strath Haven H.S. – Penn State) and Austin Scott (Parkland H.S – Penn State).

The sixty-three 2019 Pennsylvania Mini Max Winners are listed alphabetically by school:

First Name	Last Name	School
Marc	Macione	Abington HS
Barry	Brown	Academy Park HS
Trevor	Porche	Annville-Cleona
Richie	Kimmel	Archbishop Carroll HS
Ryan	DiVergilis	Archbishop Wood HS
Tareef	Howell	Ben Franklin
Abdul	MacFoy	Berks Catholic HS
Lonnie	Rice	Bishop McDevitt HS
Chile	Adele	Bonner Prendie HS
David	Anaya	Boys Latin Charter
Jake	Ventresca	Central Bucks East HS
Sean	Smith	Central Bucks South HS
Jack	Fallon	Central Bucks West
Bryce	Thoman	Central Dauphin HS
Jamir	Barnes	Cheltenham Township HS
Ricky	Ortega	Coatesville Area HS
Noah	Palm	Cocalico HS
Liam	Kirk	Conestoga HS
Owen	Dautrich	Conrad Weiser HS
Dillon	Sheehy	Council Rock North HS
Spencer	Uggla	Downingtown East HS
William	Howard	Downingtown West HS
Caden	Keefer	Ephrata HS
Jake	Morin	Garnet Valey HS
Bennett	Lichstein	George School
Hans	Lillis	Germantown Academy
Dillon	Trainer	LaSalle College HS
Caimin	Hayes	Malvern Prepatory School
Ben	Mann	Manheim Township
Tyrell	Mims	Martin Luther King HS
Christopher	Chin	Mastery Charter
Michael	Torcini	Methacton HS
Scott	Schwalm	Minersville Area HS
Jake	Wilson	Nazareth Area High School
Brody	McAndrew	Neshaminy HS
Zach	Griffiths	New Hope-Solebury hS
R.J.	Macnamara	North Penn HS
Jacob	Dunfee	Northeast HS
Andrew	Darno	Notre Dame Green Pond
Cooper	Chamberlain	Owen J. Roberts HS
Jordan	Nelson	Palmerton Area HS
Robert	Dahn	Penn Wood High School
Jack	Pizor	Phoenixville Area HS
Justin	Mitala	Pope John Paul II HS
Josh	McGovern	Quakertown
Kurt	Keough	Red Lion Area HS
Dylan	Staley	Ridley HS
Kyle	Killiri	Salisbury HS
Andrew	Vince	Souderton Area HS
Daniel	Simpson	Spring Grove Area HS
Dante	Bonanni	Spring-Ford HS
JP	McGowan	Springfield Township HS
Ke’Shawn	Williams	Springside Chestnut Hill
Liam	Johnson	St. Joseph’s Prep
Fatorma	Mulbah	Susquehanna Township HS
Maurcus	McDaniel	The Episcopal Academy
Kwaku	Adubofour	The Haverford School
Michael	Slivka	Upper Dublin HS
Marc	Clayton	Upper Merion Area HS
Ethan	Saunders	Waynesboro Area HS
Kyle	Cichanowsky	West Chester East
Kyle	Jones	William Penn Charter
Savion	Harrison	York Suburban HS