2025 New Jersey Mini Max Award Winners Announced

Maxwell Football Club President, Mark Dianno, announced the 2025 Mini Max High School Award winners for the state of New Jersey. The fifty-five players selected are from schools across the state and were nominated by their coaches throughout the 2025 season, and were evaluated based on criteria that includes: football performance, academics, and community service.

The Maxwell Football Club also released the Delaware and Pennsylvania Award winners today. Players from those states were eligible for selection as part of the program.

The Maxwell Football Club will select one player from Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey as the Player of the Year for each state. These will be announced at the annual Mini-Maxwell Awards on February 1, 2026, at the Drexelbrook Catering and Event Center in Drexel Hill, PA.

The winner of the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware Player of the Year awards will be the candidates for the Club’s 39th Jim Henry Award as the Outstanding Player in the region. The winner of the Jim Henry Award will also be announced at the Mini-Max Awards on February 1, 2026.

Recent winners of the Jim Henry Award include Stone Saunders (Bishop McDevitt H.S.-Kentucky), Alex Erby (Steelton Highspire H.S. – Naval Academy Prep), Stefano Montello (West Morris Central H.S. – Brown), Nicholas Singleton (Governor Mifflin H.S. – Penn State), Kyle McCord (St. Joseph’s Prep – Ohio State), Will Howard (Downingtown West H.S. – Kansas State), 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).

On this year’s honorees, Maxwell Football Club President, Mark Dianno, said, “This is another exceptional class of student athletes who will represent the Mini Max Award very well. They accomplished extraordinary feats on the fields, in their classrooms, and in their respective communities. On behalf of the entire Board of Directors and all the members of the Maxwell Football Club, we congratulate and salute this exceptional group of student-athletes on being 2025 Mini-Max Award winners and wish them much success in their future endeavors.”

The fifty-five 2025 New Jersey Mini Max Winners are listed alphabetically by school:

About the Maxwell Football Club – The Maxwell Football Club was founded in 1935 and is the oldest football organization of its kind in America. The Club recognizes excellence in performance at the high school, collegiate, and professional levels of the game. The Maxwell Club is also deeply involved and fully vested in the community through programs to promote academic excellence, community volunteerism, and leadership. High school student-athletes around the country have an opportunity to participate in MFC leadership events, free of charge, through the generosity of our corporate partners, the NFL Foundation, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Coca-Cola Roxy, College Sports Communicators, Kirkland Printing, Omaha Productions, Quinco, The Seiler Group at Raymond James, the ETC Foundation, Vertical Raise, and SRA Inc. To learn more about our story, visit www.maxwellfootballclub.org.