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World champion Rebecca Soni, a WW-P North graduate, took home top honors at the sixth annual 2009 USA Swimming Foundation Golden Goggle Awards last month. She was named the Female Athlete of the Year during the gala.

The West Windsor-Plainsboro Storm — a Boys U-10 soccer team in the New Jersey Youth Soccer Association — won its final game of the fall season, 5-0 over the Our Youth Soccer Academy Golden Warriors from Irvington. Conor Kelly, Krishna Siva Kumar, and Matthew Wang scored goals in the win. Zachary Bowen scored two. David Corell, Daniel Joseph, Eshaan Kotham, and Thomas Daily also played well, and Neelish Vaddi and Goutham Yalla preserved the shutout in goal.

Nassir Silwany, fullback on North’s boys’ soccer team, was named to the All-CVC first team. Kevin Nowak, also of the Knights, who finished the season with 20 goals, was also named to the All-CVC first team.

Alex Prieto, of South’s boys’ soccer team, was named to the All-CVC first team. He was the CVC’s leading scorer, with 21 goals and 23 assists. He had a total of 65 points this season.

South swimmer Meredith Ketchmark signed a national letter of intent to swim next year with Wagner College. Her teammate, Rebecca Lewinson, made a verbal commitment to Princeton, after having visited Duke, Northwestern, Michigan, and Wisconsin before deciding to stay close to home.

Ryan Phelan, a senior baseball player at North, signed a national letter of intent to catch at Fordham University.

Zach Hundertmark, a senior nose tackle on South’s football team, was won named the Lineman of the Year and was awarded the 2009 Charles J. “Fuzzy” Falzone Memorial Award, presented by the Benevolent Order of the Falzone. He had 47 tackles this season and five sacks.

The West Windsor-Plainsboro Comets U-12 soccer team fell to the Ewing Hawks, 3-1, on November 29.

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