Haddonfield, Haddon Seniors Named NJSIAA Scholar Athletes

Student athletes from Haddonfield and Haddon Township have been named scholar athletes by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA), the governing body that oversees the state’s high school sports announced on Tuesday.

Under the ongoing program, each NJSIAA member school – nearly every high school in the state – has the opportunity to select one graduating senior as its scholar-athlete of the year.

Haddonfield Memorial High School selected senior Payton Weiner, a runner who competes in cross country and both winter and spring track and field.

Haddon Township selected Jackson Lutz, who also competes on the spring track and field team, and plays football and basketball.

They are among 375 student athletes statewide that will share in more than $187,000 worth of scholarships that has been awarded by the NJSIAA, the state announced.

“These students are always an impressive group, and that’s even more the case in 2021, given the challenges they’ve all navigated since the spring of their junior years,” NJSIAA Executive Director Colleen Maguire said. “To be recognized, they’ve had to put in quite a bit of hard work, while learning to be resilient under circumstances no one has dealt with before.”

Since 1993, NJSIAA has honored more than 8,400 New Jersey high school students through its annual scholastic-athletes program.