Best of the Best: 561 Private-Public award nominees

PALM BEACH COUNTY – Now that the 2021 high school football season has officially ended, it is a great time to honor our area’s best.

With that said, we have launched the second year of what will now be called our Best of the Best Award Series for Palm Beach County as a whole.

Since we have a multitude of private and public high school football programs in our area, we feel that it is best to honor our top student-athletes, coaches and teams in two different ways.

What you will see is a total of nine award categories that are broken down evenly for the private schools and the public schools. This comes out to 18 categories in all.

Here are the award categories:

•Breakthrough Player of the Year
•Underclassman of the Year
•Lineman of the Year
•Offensive Player of the Year
•Defensive Player of the Year
•Special Teams Player of the Year
•MVP of the Year
•Coach of the Year
•Team of the Year

PLEASE NOTE: No high school football team will be represented more than once in any nomination category, which means that no program will have more than nine total nominations.

The area programs with the most award nominations are as follows:

•Benjamin (8)
•Pahokee (7)
•Palm Beach Central (7)
•Jupiter Christian (6)
•St. Andrew’s (6)

Teams with at least one nomination are the likes of Cardinal Newman, Glades Day, Boca Raton, Forest Hill, Palm Beach Gardens, Park Vista, American Heritage (Delray Beach), King’s Academy, Inlet Grove, Seminole Ridge, Jupiter, Atlantic (Delray Beach), Boynton Beach, Glades Central, and Wellington.

The entire list of nominations can be viewed right below.

BREAKTHROUGH PLAYER OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE

DE/LB Nick Bailey (St. Andrew’s)
DB Desean Butler (Delray Beach American Heritage)
OL Dalton Lyons (Benjamin)
DB Jenorris Wilcher (Glades Day)

BREAKTHROUGH PLAYER OF THE YEAR: PUBLIC

ATH Artur Chageav (Boca Raton)
K/P Juan Dominguez (Palm Beach Central)
LB Jacorris Foreman (Pahokee)
RB Adam Philp (Park Vista)

UNDERCLASSMAN OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE

RB Chauncey Bowens (Benjamin)
RB Tovani Mizell (Cardinal Newman)
QB Will Prichard (King’s Academy)
RB Bill Young (St. Andrew’s)

UNDERCLASSMAN OF THE YEAR: PUBLIC

RB Emonte Brown (Jupiter)
RB Sebastian Christian (Seminole Ridge)
DE Deejay Holmes (Pahokee)
WR Javorian Wimberly (Palm Beach Central)

LINEMAN OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE

OL Addison Hoffman (St. Andrew’s)
DE C.J. Johnson (Delray Beach American Heritage)
OL Dalton Lyons (Benjamin)
OL/DL Sebastian Scott (Cardinal Newman)

LINEMAN OF THE YEAR: PUBLIC

LB Valentino Diaz (Boca Raton)
DE Deejay Holmes (Pahokee)
OL Joseph Pagan (Boynton Beach)
DT Gavin Peacock (Park Vista)

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE

QB Tyler Aronson (Benjamin)
ATH Brian LaFrance (Jupiter Christian)
QB Will Prichard (King’s Academy)
RB Bill Young (St. Andrew’s)

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: PUBLIC

QB Ahmad Haston (Palm Beach Central)
WR Silas Hinson (Inlet Grove)
RB Melvin Hubbard (Forest Hill)
RB Trey Rainey (Boca Raton)

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE

DE/LB C.J. Bowens (Benjamin)
DE C.J. Johnson (Delray Beach American Heritage)
DB Jamarr Fleuridor (Jupiter Christian)
LB Stephen Scroggins (King’s Academy)

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: PUBLIC

ATH Vincent Dubose (Palm Beach Gardens)
CB Robert Harris (Glades Central)
DE Deejay Holmes (Pahokee)
DT Gavin Peacock (Park Vista)

SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE

ATH Brian LaFrance (Jupiter Christian)
K/P Andrew MacMillan (Cardinal Newman)
P Trevor Snider (King’s Academy)
K/P Jake Weinberg (Delray Beach American Heritage)

SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE YEAR: PUBLIC

K/P Juan Dominguez (Palm Beach Central)
K/P Hayden Gray (Seminole Ridge)
K/P Robert Hammond III (Delray Beach Atlantic)
ATH Michael Tucker (Palm Beach Gardens)

MVP OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE

RB Chauncey Bowens (Benjamin)
ATH Brian LaFrance (Jupiter Christian)
QB Dylan Wilkins (Glades Day)
RB Bill Young (St. Andrew’s)

MVP OF THE YEAR: PUBLIC

ATH Vincent Dubose (Palm Beach Gardens)
WR Silas Hinson (Inlet Grove)
DE Deejay Holmes (Pahokee)
RB Markel King (Palm Beach Central)

COACH OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE

Baz Alfred (Jupiter Christian)
Eric Kresser (Benjamin)
Jimmy Robertson (St. Andrew’s)
Zach Threkeld (Glades Day)

COACH OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE

David Angell (Boca Raton)
Jim Basford (Forest Hill)
Emmanuel Hendrix (Pahokee)
Scottie Littles (Palm Beach Central)

TEAM OF THE YEAR: PRIVATE

Benjamin
Cardinal Newman
Glades Day
Jupiter Christian

TEAM OF THE YEAR: PUBLIC

Forest Hill
Palm Beach Central
Pahokee
Wellington