2020 Mini Max High School award winners for  the state of Delaware

Maxwell Football Club President, Mark Dianno, announced the 2020 Mini Max High School Award winners for  the state of Delaware. The forty-one players selected are from schools located throughout the state of Delaware. Players were nominated by their coaches throughout the 2020 season and were evaluated based  on criteria that includes: football performance, academics, and community service.  

The Maxwell Football Club will select one player from the group of Mini Max winners as the winner of the  Delaware Player of the Year. The Delaware High School Player of the Year will be announced through a press  release on January 25, 2021.  

The Maxwell Football Club also released the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Mini Max Award winners today.  Pennsylvania players from Districts 1, 3, 11 and 12 in the eastern part of the state and New Jersey players from  throughout the state were eligible for selection as part of the program.  

The winner of the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware Player of the Year awards will be the candidates  for the Club’s 35th Jim Henry Award as the Outstanding Player in the region. The winner of the Jim Henry  Award will be announced on February 1, 2021.  

Recent winners of the Jim Henry Award include 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 year’s group of Mini-Max  winners were challenged by more than just their on-field opponents. They had to contend with circumstances  of the pandemic impacting their families, communities, schools, teachers, academics, practices, coaches, and  games; yet they consistently rose to meet those challenges and performed 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 2020 Mini-Max Award winners and wish them much success in their future endeavors.” 

The 41 2020 Delaware Mini Max Winners are listed alphabetically by school: 

First Name	Last Name	School
Anthony	Lockett	Alexis I du Pont High School
Warren	Grooms Jr.	Appoquinimink High School
Sanjay	Long	Archmere Academy
Jordan	Sanders	Brandywine High School
Tremere	Woodlin	Caesar Rodney High School
Jaden	Davis	Cape Henlopen High School
Peyton	Biscoe	Caravel Academy
Jerry	Lu	Charter School of Wilmington
Aaron	Woody Jr.	Christiana High School
Cameren	Smith	Concord High School
Ja’Teir	Berkley-Osborne	Conrad Schools of Science
Noah	Cillo	Delaware Military Academy
Caden	Johnson	Delcastle Technical High School
Garrett	Wright	Delmar High School
Amir	Beverly	First State Military Academy
Tabori	Wright	Glasgow High School
Mike	Brock	Howard High School of Technology
River	Vickers	Indian River High School
Kendall	Smith Jr.	Lake Forest High School
Cameron	Pusey	Laurel High School
Benjamin	Martin lll	Middletown High School
Marquis	Gillis	Milford High School
Tyler	Henning	Mount Pleasant High School
Tyran	Rice	Newark High School
Curt	Henry	Paul M. Hodgson Vocational Technical High School
Brian	Scott-Hill	POLYTECH High School
Brandon	Anderson	Red Lion Christian Academy
Jack	Palmer	Saint Mark’s High School
Joe	Montooth	Salesianum School
Sihon	Evans	Seaford High School
Aidan	Sanchez	Smyrna High School
Andrew	Spychalski	St. Elizabeth High School
Nyaire	Wilson	St. Georges Technical High School
Phillip	Stratton	Sussex Central High School
Conor	Ellingsworth	Sussex Technical High School
Carlton	O’Connor	The John Dickinson School
Keith	Webb	Thomas McKean High School
Emmett	Simpler	Tower Hill School
Emmanuel	Ayala	William Penn High School
Patrick	McKenzie	Wilmington Friends School
Michael	Plummer	Woodbridge High School