Maxwell Football Club President, Mark Dianno, announced the 2024 Mini Max High School Award winners for the state of New Jersey. The fifty-five players selected are from schools across the state and were nominated by their coaches throughout the 2024 season and were evaluated based on criteria that includes: football performance, academics, and community service.
The Maxwell Football Club also released the Delaware and Pennsylvania 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 2, 2025, 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 38th 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 2, 2025.
Recent winners of the Jim Henry Award include Alex Erby (Steelton Highspire H.S. – Naval Academy Prep), Stefano Montello (West Morris Central H.S. – Brown), 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 2024 Mini-Max Award winners and wish them much success in their future endeavors.”
The fifty-five 2024 New Jersey Mini Max Winners are listed alphabetically by school:
| Thomas | Quinn | Audubon High School |
| Cole | Toddings | Barnegat High School |
| Jack | Morra | Bernards High School |
| Kaden | Ekelburg | Burlington Township High School |
| PJ | Coffey | Butler High School |
| D’Hani | Cobbs | Camden High School |
| Stephen | Paradiso | Cedar Grove High School |
| Evan | Bryfogle | Cherokee High School |
| Jaxson | Bowman | Cherry Hill East High School |
| Phillip | Folmar | Delbarton School |
| Brady | Bowman | Delran High School |
| Daniel | Russo | Delsea Regional High School |
| Michael | Troutman | DePaul Catholic High School |
| Hunter | Ditrano | Don Bosco Prep |
| Kyle | Williams | Glassboro High School |
| Brad | Foster | Glen Ridge High School |
| Peter | Lagemann | Glen Rock High School |
| Trevin | Burkhardt | Gloucester City High School |
| Anthony | Liakhnovich | Hammonton High School |
| Hector | Lopez III | Hanover Park High School |
| Jackson | Jankowicz | Hillsborough High School |
| Deanna | Meehan | Howell High School |
| Tommy | DiPietro | Kingsway Regional High School |
| Brody | McCormack | Lakeland Regional High School |
| Shawn | Bellenger | Lyndhurst High School |
| Aidan | Lunn | Manchester Township High School |
| Cole | Capuzzi | Mendham High School |
| Jamal | Wallace Jr. | Millville High School |
| Brandon | Rector | Montgomery High School |
| Michelangelo | Vespi | Montville High School |
| Joshua | Leath | Moorestown High School |
| Gianni | Carreno | New Providence High School |
| Jahsyn | Reid | Newark Central High School |
| Alex | Orecchio | Northern Valley Old Tappan High School |
| Marco | De Croce | Northern Valley Regional at Demarest High School |
| Andrew | Rozzi | Park Ridge High School |
| Kevin | Regula | Pascack Valley High School |
| Angelo | Cundiff | Pequannock Township High School |
| Jett | Genovese | Phillipsburg High School |
| Ty | Kline | Pinelands High School |
| Trey | Tinges | Pitman High School |
| Tylik | Hill | Pope John XXIII High School |
| Kenai | Simmons | Schalick High School |
| Jake | Hasson | Seneca High School |
| Dylan | Gilmore | Seton Hall Prep |
| Mason | Grabowski | Shawnee High School |
| Brendan | O’Brien | Shore Regional High School |
| Brady | Scheier | Somerville High School |
| Edward | Cooper | South Hunterdon Regional High School |
| Julian | Giambuzzi | St. Augustine Prep High School |
| Justin | Gonzalez | Saint Peters Prep |
| Mark | Boyd | Union City High School |
| Brayden | Kelly | Watchung Hills Regional High School |
| Charles | LaMorte | West Orange high school |
| Jayron | Lewis | Williamstown High School |
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