2022 Delaware Mini Max award winners

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Maxwell Football Club President, Mark Dianno, announced the 2022 Mini Max High School Award winners for the state of Delaware. The forty-four players selected are from schools across the state of Delaware. Players were nominated by their coaches throughout the 2022 season and were evaluated based on criteria that includes: football performance, academics, and community service. 

The Maxwell Football Club also released the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Mini Max 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 5, 2023, 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 37th 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 5, 2023.

Recent winners of the Jim Henry Award include 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. During their high school careers, 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 2022 Mini-Max Award winners and wish them much success in their future endeavors.”

The forty-four 2022 Delaware Mini Max Winners are listed alphabetically by school:

 

Elijah	Husser	Appoquinimink High School
Chris	Albero	Archmere Academy
Lorenzo	Gales, Jr.	Brandywine High School
Kevin	Takizala	Caesar Rodney High School
Thomas	Messick	Cape Henlopen High School
Mekhi	Carmon	Caravel Academy
Tenye	Martin	Charter School of Wilmington
N’yzair	Love	Christiana High School
Jeffrey	McNulty	Concord High School
Lenniek	Preston	Conrad Schools of Science
Dha-Feir	Watts	Delaware Military Academy
Marvin	Atkins	Delcastle Technical High School
Derek	Fooks	Delmar Middle & Senior High School
Tysean	Milligan	Dover High School
Nasir	Jones	Early College School
Jayden	Manigault	First State Military Academy
Train	Johnson	Glasgow High School
Christian	Pope	Howard High School of Technology
Ashton	Stephens	Indian River High School
Kai	Rivera	Lake Forest High School
Kaden	Shockley	Laurel High School
Dru	Beckford	Middletown High School
Desmond	Aladuge	Milford Senior High School
Dahmir	Byrd	Mount Pleasant High School
Jayden	Smith	Newark High School
London	Bright	Paul M. Hodgson Vocational Technical High School
Me’Lik	Purnell	POLYTECH High School
Kyle	Manley	Red Lion Christian Academy
Luke	DeKay	Saint Mark’s High School
Nate	Ray	Salesianum School
Zach	Holmes	Seaford High School
Yamir	Knight	Smyrna High School
Will	Dulaney	St. Andrew’s School
Quasim	Benson	St. Elizabeth High School
Donovan	Brooks	St. Georges Technical High School
Patrick	Henry	Sussex Central High School
Jeremyah	Handy	Sussex Technical High School
Jacob	Tyler	The John Dickinson School
Jeff	Homer	The Tatnall School
Makeevis	Rogers	Thomas McKean High School
Dominick	Pietlock	Tower Hill School
Tristian	Wingo	William Penn High School
Robby	Tattersall	Wilmington Friends School
Johnathon	Shockley	Woodbridge High 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 Showcase events, free of charge, through the generosity of our corporate partners, Montage Mountain Resort, Ivy Rehab, The Buccini Pollin Group, the Edward T. Coombs Foundation and the Run Around Inc. To learn more about our story visit www.maxwellfootballclub.org.