2018 Mini Max High School Award winners

Written by: David Mika on Thursday, November 29th, 2018. Follow David Mika on Twitter.

Maxwell Football Club President, Mark Dianno, announced the 2018 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 2018 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 10, 2019 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 10, 2019 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 20^that 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 33rd 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 8, 2019 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 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 2018 Pennsylvania Mini Max Winners are listed alphabetically by school:

First Name	Last Name	School
Keith	Hudoka	Abington HS
Gavin	Stout	Annville-Cleona HS
Connor	Bishop	Archbishop Wood HS
Brandon	George	Berks Catholic HS
Dalton	Daddona	Bethlehem Catholic HS
Lawrence	Richardson	Bishop McDevitt HS
Nasim	Cooper	Bonner -Prendie HS
Evan	O’Donnell	Central Bucks East HS
Matt	Norris	Central Bucks South HS
Austin	Fleegal	Central Dauphin East HS
Cade	Pribula	Central York HS
Marcus	Winfield	Cheltenham HS
Aaron	Young	Coatesville HS
Alex	MacKenzie	Conrad Weiser HS
Patrick	Garwo	Conwell Egan HS
Dylan	Ceslak	Council Rock North HS
Nick	Gallo	Council Rock South HS
Jared	Plessinger	Cumberland Valley
Raymond	Christas	Dallastown Area HS
Luke	Davis	Downingtown East HS
Ethan	Parvel	Emmaus HS
Tristan	Wheeler	Freedom HS
Elijah	Wroten	Germantown Academy
Broc	Grosser	Halifax Area HS
Mark	Custer	Hatboro Horsham HS
Cormac	Houpt	James Buchanan HS
Cade	Lafferty	Jenkintown HS
Dylan	Dailey	Jim Thorpe HS
Sean	Daly	LaSalle College HS
Trevor	Harris	Liberty HS
Matt	O’Connor	Lower Merion HS
Keith	Maguire	Malvern Prep
Tyler	Fick	Manheim Central HS
Jack	Rodenberger	Manheim Township HS
Colin	Ferry	Marple Newtown HS
Daniel	Briggs	Mastery Charter HS
Corey	Joyce	Neshaminy HS
Kristopher	Taylor	New Hope Solebury HS
Jake	Walton	North Penn HS
Cole	DeFranco	Notre Dame HS
Aidan	Hayward	Owen J. Roberts HS
Ethan	Brader	Palisades HS
Adam	Piston	Parkland HS
Todd	Barr	Pen Argyl Area HS
Jonathan	Post	Pennridge HS
Austin	Rowley	Perkiomen Valley HS
Ryan	Bodolus	Pottsgrove HS
Nick	Levinsky	Quakertown HS
Elijah	Workinger	Red Lion Area HS
Jacob	Kamp	Salisbury HS
Tim	Weaver	Saucon Valley HS
Austin	Homan	Schuylkill Haven HS
Austin	Moyer	Souderon Area HS
Eric	Glass Jr.	Spring Grove Area HS
Max	Perry	Springfield Township HS
Nick	Delromano	Springford HS
Zachary	Bouggess	St. Josephs Prep
Jack	Purcell	The Episcopal Academy
Asim	Richardson	The Haverford School
Zach	Gardner	Twin Valley HS
Mark	Picariello	Upper Merion Area HS
Michael	Gray	West Chester East HS
Edward	Saydee	William Penn Charter