SJM_FallAthletes_1121 - v2 - FINAL_Feature 10 / 27 / 21 4 : 03 PM Page 6 S T A R S T U D E N T A T H L E T E S A senior outside hitter , Radzinska emerged as Cherry Hill East’s best offensive player during her junior season and has continued to shine in her final campaign TORI RADZINSKA , despite battling back from a foot injury . She and the Cougars have their sights on CHERRY HILL EAST GIRLS a deep playoff run . VOLLEYBALL SJM : Do you think the team can go on a run in the surgery on the top of my foot to repair the skin . I was out playoffs ? from volleyball from May until basically right before the TR : I think with every practice we get stronger and preseason . When it first happened and they told me how ong I was going to be out , I cried for four days straight . l stronger and it shows during our games . We have a very I couldn’t believe that I couldn’t just go play volleyball or good chance of going far in the playoffs . hang out with my friends . It made me realize how much I SJM : You’re obviously a talented volleyball player , but really miss playing when I can’t play . you also play really hard and you’re always diving on rue you were born in Poland ? the floor . Has that always been your approach to the SJM : Is it t TR : Yes . I was born in Poland and when I was around 4 game ? TR : Volleyball is not just about hitting the ball to a cer - my parents came to America to join my grandparents . We tain spot ; it’s also going as hard as you can for the ball originally went to Philly and then eventually made it over and focusing on keeping it up . I like to do anything to to New Jersey . I don’t remember [ when I lived in Poland ] help the team . but I went back when I was 8 and in eighth grade , and then we went back as a family my freshman year . We SJM : How did you get interested in volleyball in the lived about an hour from Berlin , Germany . first place ? TR : My uncles always played volleyball and they kind of u embrace your culture ? SJM : Do yo yeah , definitely . I love it . We speak Polish in my got me into it . They took me to see a family friend play TR : Oh and it’s a big part of me . house and just being there I saw how much fun the sport is . I went home and I straightaway looked up the closest vol - ualities are you looking for in your col - SJM : What q leyball club near me , and I found Cherry Hill Volleyball lege search ? Club . That was seven years ago and I’ve been with them definitely want to play volleyball and I’m still in TR : I ever since . the recruiting process . I’m a pretty social person so I’m for a big school . I’m looking to study criminology SJM : I understand you suffered a serious injury in looking so that’s important . I don’t want to be right in the middle the offseason and had to have surgery . What hap - of a city and I don’t want to be in the country , so some - pened ? TR : I had my foot run over by a car and I had to have thing in the middle . M O R E AT H L E T E S W E ’ R E K E E P I N G O U R E Y E S O N T H I S S E A S O N STAR WATCH and led the Foxes to a sectional setting up his teammates , this senior elite runner as well . He was the FIELD HOCKEY championship . forward is a major part of the offense Olympic Conference champion earlier Olivia Bent - Cole , Camden Catholic : for a team that has been ranked in this fall and also took second at the FOOTBALL After receiving all - state first - team Samantha Tepes , Shawnee : The the state for most of the season . Camden County Championships . LeQuint Allen , Millville : A senior recognition as a sophomore , Bent - Olympic Conference American Di - running back / linebacker , Allen is a Cole has continued to dominate this vision champion for a second time , Kyle Rakitis , Kingsway : A Meet of Matt McFadden , Shawnee : After key player on both sides of the ball fall and hopes to lead the Irish to the this junior helped Shawnee go 17 - Champions winner in the mile this losing several top players to club for a team ranked in the top five in Non - Public A state championship . 1 with a sectional title . The Rene - past spring , Rakitis has not disap - commitments , there was a little un - the state . He will continue his career gades ’ only loss came in the state pointed in his senior cross country certainty surrounding the Renegades at Syracuse . Izzy Bianco , Eastern : An all - state semifinals . season . He already had Gloucester coming into the season , but they selection as a junior , this senior mid - County and Tri - County Conference have remained one of the best teams Brandon Boria , Cherokee : Known fielder is known for her passing but GIRLS VOLLEYBALL titles heading into the postseason in South Jersey , and McFadden is a as “ Bam ” because of his fierce running can also find the cage on a consistent Bryn Bautista , Washington Town - and was looking for even bigger ac - big reason for the success . The senior style , this junior running back amassed basis . She will continue her career at ship : Still just a sophomore , Bautista complishments . midfielder is the leading scorer for over 1,300 yards rushing and 17 Louisville . has established herself as one of the the Olympic Conference American Di - touchdowns through the first seven premier players in South Jersey . A GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY vision champs . games this season and is a major Tori Griffiths , Kingsway : A four - libero during club season , she slides Nikki Clifford , Cherokee : Clifford , reason the Chiefs have kept on winning year starter , Griffiths went over the over to outside hitter for high school a senior , repeated as the Burlington GIRLS SOCCER despite the graduation of a stellar 100 - goal milestone for her career and dominates at the net . County champion this fall and also Kennedy Garcia , Rancocas Valley : senior class . earlier this fall . The Liberty commit This junior , an all - South Jersey sec - took first at the Olympic Conference Mia Moscicki , Shawnee : The Rene - once again led the Dragons to an ond - teamer in 2020 , has taken her Championships.She entered the post - Donovan Leary , Timber Creek : The gades brought back only one starter outstanding regular season . game up another notch as an upper - season expecting to be in contention younger brother of former South Jersey from last year’s sectional champi - classman . She is the leading goal at sectionals , states and the Meet of star and current N.C . State quarterback onship team , but luckily it was Mosci - GIRLS TENNIS scorer and third in assists for one of Champions . Devin Leary , this senior is making a cki . One of the most talented outside Molly Jespersen , Schalick : The South Jersey’s best teams . name for himself . The Illinois commit hitters in the state , she entered the Abigail Waddington , Clearview : Cougars ’ first singles player all four is among the state leaders in passing postseason with over 200 kills and This junior claimed first place at the years of her career , Jespersen led Summer Reimet , Ocean City : A yards . had her team playing outstanding Gloucester County Championships and Schalick to a sectional final and senior forward , Reimet broke the school volleyball once again . took third at the Tri - County Conference reached the championship match record for career goals earlier this BOYS SOCCER Showcase , boosting her confidence of the South Jersey Interscholastic season . Entering the playoffs , she had Jeff Heineman , Kingsway : A four - DajahWilliams , Williamstown : The heading into sectionals . Tournament . found the back of the net more than year starter at center back , this senior leader in kills for a team with state 100 times in her time with the Red is the backbone of one of the best championship aspirations , Williams Bella Pescatore , Moorestown GYMNASTICS Raiders , including 52 this year alone . defenses in South Jersey . He helped helped the Braves go undefeated and Friends : Pescatore wrapped up Isabella Nelli , Washington Town - the Dragons earn a share of the Tri - win the Gloucester County title during her remarkable four - year career ship : Cami Silvestro , Eastern : Silvestro Just one of the many talented County Conference Royal Division the regular season . this fall by reaching the final at the was an all - state third team selection gymnasts on Washington Township’s championship and enter the playoffs South Jersey Interscholastic Tour - as a junior , and this season she is the BOYS CROSS COUNTRY roster , this former Olympic Conference as sectional title contenders . nament for the second time and leading scorer for a team that has Billy Clewell , Camden Catholic : A champion led the Minutemaids to claiming her first title . She also spent time in the No . 1 spot in New former soccer star for the Fighting an undefeated regular season this Colin Kenville , Cinnaminson : n won the Burlington County Open Jersey.She is committed to West Point . Irish , Clewell has proven to be an fall . Whether he’s scoring goals himself or S O U T H J E R S E Y M A G A Z I N E | V O L U M E 1 8 , I S S U E 7 | S O U T H J E R S E Y M A G A Z I N E . C O M | 4 1