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 |
