Emmaus’ Brian Mantone will represent the Hornet football team at this year’s Lehigh Valley Football Scholar-Athlete Banquet. The 6-foot, 170-pound wide receiver and free safety, he ranks 121st out of 673 students. He is an honor roll student and member of the Curricular Honor Society. He serves as class president, is editor of the school newspaper, participates in varsity track, the Architecture Building Team, Hornet Ambassadors, the Lunch Buddy Program, and is a powder puff coach. He volunteers with Special Olympics, the Construction Food Drive Challenge, Spirit of the Lehigh Valley, is a youth football coach and is active in his church.

The banquet will be held on Sunday, March 5 at 4:30 p.m. at the Northampton Community Center.

The following is a list of this year’s Lehigh Valley Football Scholar-Athlete nominees.

HIGH SCHOOL

SCHOLAR-ATHLETES

Allen – Marcus Dileo Vereen

Bangor – Ean Joseph Sheats

Bethlehem Catholic – Liam D. Nixon

Catasauqua – John Edward Stires

Central Catholic – Thomas Joseph Murphy

Dieruff – Anthony J. Mendoza

East Stroudsburg North – Thomas Rocco Melchiorre

East Stroudsburg South – Joelle Elias Duroseau

Easton – Michael Pugliese

Emmaus – Brian Thomas Mantone

Freedom – Steven Matthew Rold

Jim Thorpe – Derek Jeffrey Scott

Lehighton – Grant Alexander Wetzel

Liberty – Christian Rhys Gallagher

Nazareth Area High School – Travis Cade Stefanik

Northampton – Colin Robert Schucker

Northern Lehigh – Jeremy Hunter Schmick

Northwestern – Andrew James Seyler

Notre Dame – Austin Michael Kaulius

Palisades – Andrew Aaron Nickles

Palmerton – Garrett Thomas Perschy

Parkland – Ethan Thomas Imler

Pen Argyl – Logan Stewart Ruppert

Phillipsburg – Zachary Alvin Troxell

Pleasant Valley – Benjamin Michael Bard

Pocono Mountain East – Robert Christopher Fox

Pocono Mountain West – Steven Matthew Bowen

Salisbury – Eric John Frankenfield

Saucon Valley – Konstandinos E. Zaharakis

Southern Lehigh – Gary Lee Popowitz, Jr.

Stroudsburg – Hunter Paul Holmes

Whitehall – Jackson Buskirk

Wilson – Zachary John Febbo

COLLEGE

SCHOLAR-ATHLETES

East Stroudsburg University – Sean Roth

Kutztown University – Zachary Delp

Lafayette College – Blake S. Searfoss

Lehigh University – Micah Tennant

Moravian College – Jalen Snyder-Scipio

Muhlenberg College – William Britt