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2022 Winners
Richard B. Yoder
High School Scholar-Athlete Award
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Morgan Weaver
Owen J. Roberts High School
Soccer / Track & Field
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Morgan Weaver is one of the most accomplished academic students in her graduating class at Owen J. Roberts High School where she maintained a 4.883 GPA. She is a two-year National Honor Society member, a National Merit Scholarship Finalist, and a member of National Honor Societies in Science, Math, Computer Science, and English. Morgan achieved Distinguished Honors for four years in her challenging academic curriculum.
Equally as skilled on the soccer pitch, Weaver is one of the outstanding girl’s players in the history of the Pioneer Athletic Conference. Her many honors include the Pottstown Mercury Player of the Year as a senior, All-Southeastern Team member, All-American USC All-Region II East Female Team, All-State as a Junior, first team All PAC 10 conference for four years, PAC 10 Academic Team, team MVP for two years, and team captain her Junior and Senior year. She was a defensive starter for all four years. At the club level, she played for FC Providence Lightning and Steel United PA.
When she was not on the pitch she participated in Track & Field in the 200m, 400m and Sprint Medley at the Conference, District and State level. She garnered All-PAC 10 and All-Area honors in the 400m. Her Sprint Medley team was a medalist at the recent PIAA Indoor meet.
Morgan is a natural leader and has been active at OJR and in the community. She served as President of Kids for Kids, was an academic tutor two days a week, and a member of the Ambassadors Club. She is Girl Scout Bronze and Silver Award recipient, and in her spare time was a shift manager at Handel’s Ice Cream in Royersford.
She will attend Boston University in the Fall where she will compete in Division I soccer.
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Dylan Grim
B. Reed Henderson High School
Football / Basketball / Baseball
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Dylan Grim maintained a 4.27 GPA during his four-year high school career and was anhonor roll recipient at Henderson for three years after transferring from the Westtown School. He was a National Honor Society member while pursuing a challenging academic curriculum.
Although his primary sports were Baseball and Basketball, Grim joined the Varsity Football team for the first time his senior year. He was an outstanding all-around player and his play earned him First-Team All Ches-Mont League honors as a defensive end, and All-Area Honorable Mention. He was a starter on the basketball team and was a strong contributor on both ends of the court.
He excelled in Baseball and as a freshman earned First-Team All Friends League as a pitcher. After transferring to Henderson because of his father’s terminal illness he did not compete his sophomore year and had limited participation his junior year. He is a key member of the current Henderson baseball team as a pitcher and multi-positional player.
Grim’s athletic accomplishments as a rare three-sport athlete are more remarkable when placed in the context of losing his father to colon cancer midway through his junior year. His devotion to his father’s memory resulted in his co-founding the Rob Grim Memorial Athletic Foundation to support youth sports and raise awareness of early colon cancer screening and detection. To date the RGMAF has distributed nearly $50,000 of used sports equipment and hosted football and basketball games to fund an annual $2,500 scholarship for a deserving Henderson High School Student-Athlete. In 2022 the foundation will establish a scholarship fund to support the West Side Little League and make baseball and softball available to all community youth.
Dylan has demonstrated mature leadership in helping establish and grow his family’s Rob Grim foundation, he participated in varsity sports at a performative high level his senior year, and he still found time to participate in school events like DECA where he placed second in the Pennsylvania state competition and earned a trip to the DECA Nationals. He spent the summer of 2021, and will repeat again in 2022, volunteering for the Chester County Food Bank. For his commitment and work ethic at the Food Bank he earned a “Fabulous Farmer” distinction.
He will attend Virginia Tech University in the Fall where he hopes to compete in Division I baseball.
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