SJM_FallAthletes_1023FINAL.qxp_Feature 10 / 19 / 23 10 : 29 AM Page 9 More standout athletes we’re keeping our eye on . STAR WATCH ? an academy team in Spain for forward , helped the Lions Bella Moore , Camden the Burlington County cham - FOOTBALL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL two months — Heil is back this capture the first sectional title Catholic : Moore , a junior pion earlier this season and Lotzeir Brooks , Millville : Bryn Bautista , Washing - fall and dominating for the in program history last year midfielder , is a key contribu - was looking to do the same at A premier playmaker at wide ton Township : Bautista , a Minutemen . He is hoping to and is leading the team in tor at both ends of the field sectionals in late October . receiver for South Jersey’s four - year starter at outside make a run at the program goals for the second straight for the defending state No . 1 team , this junior is being hitter , is Washington Town - record for goals in a season . season . She is committed to champs . She is committed to GIRLS CROSS recruited by some of the top ship’s all - time leader in kills Monmouth University . the University of Virginia . David Obando , Eastern : COUNTRY college programs in the coun - and digs . She forms a formi - A senior forward , Obando has Mackenzie McCready , Kyleigh Welusz , Seneca : try . dable duo with best friend Kerry O’Day , Cherokee : emerged as one of the area’s Shawnee : One of the best A four - year starter in the and setter Nina Cleary . After placing in the top 10 at Dominic Hahn , Haddon - top playmakers and was lead - distributors in South Jersey midfield , Welusz is one of four major races as a junior , O ’ - field : A senior running Emily Ezeiruaku , Paul VI : ing the Vikings in both goals and the state , this senior has three double - digit scorers for Day is again leading the way back / defensive back , Hahn is A senior outside hitter , and assists with the regular shined throughout her career Seneca this season . She will for the Chiefs as a senior . She leading Haddonfield in rush - Ezeiruaku leads one of the season winding down . in setting up teammates for continue her career at Colgate took second at the Burlington ing for the second year in a state’s best programs in kills scoring opportunities . University . Drew Roskos , Delran : County Open , one of three row and has reached double and digs . Roskos , a two - time state Gabby Miller , Seneca : The Cherokee runners in the top six . digits in touchdowns once Dajah Williams , Player of the Year , has GIRLS TENNIS South Jersey Midfielder of the again . He will continue his ca - Nilaa Ponnappan , Williamstown : A University amassed more than 70 goals Year in 2022 , this senior Sarah Crawford , reer at Washington and Lee Camden Catholic : This ju - of Connecticut commit , this during his standout career . teams with Ava Palladino to Clearview : A junior , Craw - University . nior took second in her divi - senior outside hitter recently Also a star wrestler , he will give Seneca one of the most ford is in her second season at sion at the South Jersey Joe Papa , Shawnee : A recorded her 800th career kill . play Division I soccer at Buck - dangerous offensive duos in first singles and has led the Shootout earlier this season two - year starter , Papa is one nell University . the state . Pioneers to a sectional final . and was the Camden County of the best dual - threat quar - She won her first Gloucester champion . BOYS CROSS terbacks in South Jersey and County title earlier this sea - FIELD HOCKEY GIRLS SOCCER COUNTRY is the latest in a long line of son and is aiming for a South standouts at the position for Sabrina McGroarty , MaKala Baker , GYMNASTICS Ryan Duffy , Kingsway : Jersey crown to go with it . the Renegades . Kingsway : Fresh off the first Williamstown : A senior Duffy’s impressive freshman Addison Wright , Alana Lee , Moorestown : state title in program history back , Baker is considered one season has included a win at Cherokee : This junior has Just a sophomore , Lee is in last year , Kingsway is again of the best defenders in the the South Jersey Shootout taken second in the all - BOYS SOCCER her second season at No . 1 one of New Jersey’s top region and made the all - and a second - place finish at around at the Olympic Con - singles and won the top flight Drew Heil , Washington teams , and McGroarty is a big South Jersey first team as a the Gloucester County Cham - ference Championships each at the Burlington County Township : After not playing reason why . The senior mid - junior . pionships . of her first two seasons and Open this fall . high school soccer as a ju - fielder is a University of Iowa Kennedy Erdman , Cherry also finished second at sec - Nick Kuenkel , Cherokee : nior — he actually trained with recruit . n Hill West : Erdman , a senior tionals as a sophomore . Kuenkel , a senior , repeated as SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 20 issue 7 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 36 |