South Western High seniors Shannon and Erin Laird are two of eight girls from four Hanover area high schools nominated for the female version of the award to be presented at the dinner.
In addition, eight boys have also been nominated for the award, part of a group of candidates which includes two who have signed for NCAA Division I scholarships. Those two are South Western's Eric Moul, who has signed to play baseball for New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Delone Catholic's Sierra Moore, a Duke University basketball recruit.
The other female nominees are Delone's Radhika Bajaj, Hanover's Rebecca Cartwright and Paige Fuhrman and Spring Grove's Shelby Walter and Alexandra Garrett.
The additional male candidates are South Western's Rafe Sanders, Delone Catholic's Tommy Fisher and Cody Dye, Hanover's Steven Schaffer and Connor Staub and Spring Grove's Chris Mathews and Nathan Senft.
Meanwhile, each Laird sister may graduate with 12 varsity letters in cross country, basketball and girls' soccer from South Western by May. Both were named to the All-Area first team in girls' soccer last spring. Erin Laird also received All-Area first-team selection in the same sport in 2010.
Both sisters also plans to attend either King's College or
Mount Aloysius, though Shannon Laird also lists Lock Haven as a possibility. While Erin Laird plans to major in physical therapy, Shannon Laird hopes to major in athletic training.Needing 14 points to become her school's all-time leading scorer, Moore, a 3-time All-Area Girls' Basketball Player of the Year who recently eclipsed 2,000 career points at Delone, hopes to use her Duke University scholarship to major in sports broadcasting. She also was an All-Area first-team performer in track and field in 2009.
A four-year member of the student council at South Western, Moul will bid to return to the All-Area baseball team this spring after he was a second-team selection in 2011. The career saves leader for South Western, the left-hander hope to major in civil engineering at NJIT.
A two-time All-Area second-team selection in girls' tennis, Bajaj hopes to establish a career as a pediatrician.
Another two-time All-Area selection, including first-team status in 2011, in girls' tennis, Cartwright plans to attend law schools and have a political career after she has been involved in class government for three of her four years at Hanover.
Fuhrman has competed in basketball and volleyball for Hanover for four years and hopes to establish her own bakery someday after attending the restaurant school at Walnut Hills College to study pastry arts.
Garrett, who earned All-Area first-team mention in basketball last season, has played that sport and volleyball for four years at Spring Grove, She plans to attend Lebanon Valley College to major in physical therapy.
Walter, a field hockey and lacrosse player for Spring Grrove, will attend Stevenson University to major in computer forensics and to play collegiate lacrosse.
Among the male nominees, Sanders is annually one of the Hanover area's best 3-point shooters in basketball. Scoring 760 of 800 in mathematics in his Scholastic Aptitude Test, Sanders plans to attend college to major in marketing or advertising.
Fisher, an All-Area second-team selection in baseball last spring, also played four seasons of football at Delone Catholic. He hopes to study turf management in college.
Dye joined Fisher on the baseball team at Delone, but also plays basketball for the Squires. He plans to study construction management or industrial technology at the collegiate level.
Schaffer, a 4-year member of the track and field and football programs at Hanover with two top-7 finishes in the pole vault at the District 3 level, plans to major in graphic design in college.
Staub, a member of the District 3 Class AA champion basketball team in 2011, has played that sport and golf for four years at Hanover.
From Spring Grove, Mathews earned second-team selection on the All-Area boys' tennis team last spring. The band musician also has played soccer for three years and hopes to major in education in college.
Senft competes in baseball, basketball and golf at Spring Grove. A member of the school's psychology club, he plans to major in sociology and criminology at Millersville University.
The Hanover Rotary Sports Night will include appearances by seven celebrities - University of Maryland football head coach Randy Edsall, York Revolution manager Andy Etchebarren, Penn State football players Evan Lewis and Brian Irvin, Philadelphia Phillies hitting coach Greg Gross, super sprint driver Aaron Ott and former NHL player Dennis Bonvie.
Tickets, costing $30 per adult and $20 per student, are available from Jim Balthaser at Rager, Lehman and Houck, PC, at 195 Stock Street, Suite 311, in Hanover.
Source: http://www.eveningsun.com/localsports/ci_19654527?source=rss
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