2017 PA MiniMax Winners Announced

Written by: David Mika on Wednesday, November 29th, 2017. Follow David Mika on Twitter.

Maxwell Football Club President, Mark Dianno, announced the 2017 Mini Max High School Award winners for the state of Pennsylvania. The sixty-four 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 2017 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 11, 2018 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 11, 2018 at the Awards Dinner.

For the 6th year the Maxwell Football Club will also host a New Jersey Mini Max Awards Dinner which will be held on Sunday January 28th 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 32nd 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 in March 19, 2018 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 Jonathan Taylor (Salem H.S. – Wisconsin), Brandon McIlwain (Council Rock North H.S – South Carolina), 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-four 2017 Pennsylvania Mini Max Winners are listed alphabetically by school:

First Name	Last Name	School
Darryl	Davis-McNeil	Abington
Ernest	Holland III	Academy at Palumbo
Nasir	Peoples	Archbishop Wood
Keith	Parrish	Bensalem
Cooper	Lutz	Berks Catholic
Matthew	Bisko	Bethlehem Catholic
Nasir	Pettus	Bishop McDevitt
Michael	Killian	Bonner Prendie
Tom	Wertz	Cardinal O’Hara
Tanner	Miller	Cedar Crest
PJ	Szymanski	Central Bucks East
Jake	Reichwein	Central Bucks West
Ethan	Van Buskirk	Central Dauphin
Anthony	Calamia	Central Dauphin East
Cody	Profitt	Chichester
Jackson	Niness	Conestoga
Jose	Barbon	Conestoga Valley
Connor	McFadden	Conrad Weiser
Mark	Anastasi	Council Rock North
Charles	Katshir	Cumberland Valley
Bryce	Lauletta	Downingtown East
Cameron	Roth	Garden Spot
Dan	Guy	Garnet Valley
Tanner	Long	Germantown Academy
Micah	Parsons	Harrisburg
Josh	Smith	Hatboro Horsham
Daniel	Sheehan	Hershey
Jackson	Ellis	James Buchanan
Justin	St. Hill	Jim Thorpe
Dan	Solecki	LaSalle College
Nicholas	Bradley	Lebanon
Jake	Novak	Maheim Central
Joseph	Basiura	Malvern Prep
Luke	Emge	Manheim Township
Zack	Falls	Marian
Anthony	Paoletti	Marple Newtown
Robert	Coaxum	Mastery Charter North
Jacob	Kelly	Neshaminy
Justis	Henley	North Penn
Dawson	Stuart	Owen J. Roberts
Drew	Nickles	Palisades
Tekoah	Guedes	Palmerton
Jahan	Worth	Parkland
Nick	Tarburton	Pennridge
Jordan	Lapp	Pequea Valley
Jahir	Holmes	Perkiomen Valley
Jon	Miller	Phoenixville
Matt	DeLaurentis	Pope John Paul II
Parris	Janusek	Pottsgrove
Zachary	Throne	Red Lion Area
Michael	Killiri	Salisbury
Alstan	Wolfe	Saucon Valley
Trevor	Watts	Souderton
Tommy	Bornholdt	Springfield Township
TJ	Pergine	Springford
John	Feehery	St. Josephs Prep
Tim	Kater	Steelton-Highspire
Adam	Klein	The Episcopal Academy
Colin	Hurlbrink	The Haverford School
Max	Winebrake	Upper Dublin
Tyler	Whary	Upper Perkiomen
Jared	Cooper	West Chester East
Dezmond	Boykin	Whitehall
John	Washington	William Penn Charter