After Darius Young emerged as Princeton High’s Greatest Athlete via the online voting on NJGameOn, next up will be a contest to determine Montgomery High’s Greatest Athlete.
If you would like to submit a nomination for the field of 32 athletes, just leave comment below and the tournament committee will take your suggestion under advisement.
The final two weeks turned out the way we had envisioned the Princeton High’s Greatest Athlete contest would when the idea was first hatched in the summer.
There was plenty of participation. There was some spirited debate. And we think it created interest in the history of athletics at Princeton High. That was what the contest was intended to do.
Who is to say whether or not the weekly voting that narrowed an original field of 32 down to Darius Young and Nina Rossi actually determined the best athlete to come through PHS? All 32 in the field were deserving of the honor.
In the early rounds, it sometimes only took just 15 or 20 votes to advance to the next round. By the end, over 1,000 votes were cast in the final, which Young won by a 558-501 margin with a late flurry of votes just before the voting deadline at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
The voting has come down to the final two, as Darius Young will face Nina Rossi for the unofficial title of Princeton High’s Greatest Athlete.
Young, a former basketball and football standout for the Little Tigers, advanced to the final with a victory over . Rossi, who standout swimmer at PHS who is now swimming at the University of Maryland, topped former basketball standout Bram Reynolds in a semifinal that generated the contest’s highest voter turnout.
Voting will continue through the morning of Dec. 23.
Bram Reynolds, the all-time leading scorer in Colonial Valley Conference boys’ basketball history, will take on former Princeton swimming star Nina Rossi for the right to face Darius Young in the finals of the Princeton High’s Greatest Athlete contest.
Young reached the finals by securing 69 percent of the vote in his semifinal win over Saskia Webber.
Voting in the semifinal will take place through the morning of Dec. 16.
Saskia Webber, who was a standout soccer goalkeeper at Princeton High School and later went on to play at Rutgers University and for the United States National Team, will face Darius Young, who scored nearly 1,000 points in his basketball career and was also a standout on the football field, in the first of two semifinals in the Princeton High School’s Greatest Athlete contest.
Voting will take place through the morning of Dec. 9. The other semifinal, which will be voted on beginning Dec. 9, will pit Bram Reynolds against Nina Rossi.
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The West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys’ cross country has moved up in the eyes of the country. After winning the New Jersey Meet of Champions last Saturday, the Knights vaulted from 19th to fourth in Marc Bloom’s latest Harrier Super 25 rankings. The Knights also moved from 15th to 9th in the most recent MileSplit Network National Rankings.
Thanks to the high-scoring running back tandem of West Windsor-Plainsboro High South’s David Twamley and Princeton’s Josh Gordon, the Curious Georges have captured the championship of the third Princeton Packet Fantasy Football League.
The Curious Georges, under the leadership of Trentonian sportswriter George O’Gorman, fiished with 969 points to easily outdistance defending champion Bob Nuse’s Good Nuse Bears, who finished with 803 points. Justin Feil’s Feil Cabinets finished third with 759 points, while Steve Tuckerson’s Mighty Tucks were fourth with 693 points.
O’Gorman’s team was led by Twamley, the high-point scorer in the league with 283 points, and Gordon, who finished with 206 points, the third-highest total in the league. Princeton receiver DeQuan Holman added 141 points, while Hun School quarterback Brendan Dudeck finished with 94 points.
Nuse’ s team was led by WW-P South receiver Jack Dennehy, who finished with 194 points, as well as Hun School receiver/running back Nick Williams, who finished with 159 points. Feil’s team, which won the first league title in 2006, was led by WW-P South quarterback Connor Farrell, who finished with 277 points. Hun running back Donald Coleman finished with 131 points. Tuckerson’s team was led by WW-P North’s Sean Reed with 156 points and WW-P South’s Jeff Riemann with 134 points.
Points were awarded for players at quarterback, running back, receiver, kicker and for defenses based on touchdowns, yardage, catches, turnovers and points.
The highest scoring players at each position were:
Quarterback: Farrell; Running Back: Twamley; Receiver: Dennehy; Kicker: Alex Rohrbach of WW-P South; Defense: WW-P South.
Saskia Webber and Darius Young have claimed two of the four semifinal spots in the Princeton High’s Greatest Athlete contest. The other two spots are now being voted on.
In one matchup, former field hockey and softball star Missy McCloskey (Bruvik) is facing former basketball star Bram Reynolds. In the other semifinal, former swimming champion Nina Rossi is facing former cross country and track star Karen Swartz.
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Only eight remain from the original field of 32 as the Princeton High’s Greatest Athlete contest heads into the quarterfinal round.
Two spots in the semifinals are up for grabs as former soccer standouts Ron Celestin and Saskia Webber face each other in one matchup, while football and lacrosse star Jim Laverty faces football and basketball standout Darius Young in the other matchup.
Due to the forecast of bad weather for Saturday, the state cross country championships at Holmdel Park, as well as West Windsor-Plainsboro South’s opening round game in the Central Jersey Group IV playoffs have been moved to Sunday.
The cross country meet will follow the original schedule, with everything pushed back a day. The football game, whgich will pit WW-P South against Middletown North, will be played at 1 p.m.
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