NORWICH – Several Norwich Cyclone Pop Warner football players and cheerleaders were recently recognized as scholar-athletes by the National Pop Warner organization.

Cameron Edwards and Jordan Vinal were selected as sixth grade first team scholastic all-Americans for the Eastern Region, and second team National Pop Warner.

Additionally, the Cyclones were notified that four other Cyclones were awarded second team national all-American honors. Selected were Makenzie Maynard (fifth grade), Conner Eaton and Ashley Marvin (sixth grade), and Mathew Burke (eighth grade). Honorable mention scholar-athletes were Mathew Parella, Jake Walsh, Stephanie Mullins and Nathan Scheer. National all-American award winners are invited to attend the 50th annual Scholar American banquet at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on May 28.

“This is a tremendous honor for our local Pop Warner organization, this community and the school district,” said Gerard O’Sullivan, superintendent of Norwich City Schools. “These young scholar-athletes should be proud of this academic accomplishment”.