City of Basketball Love

By Josh Verlin (@jmverlin)
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The Friends’ Schools League became the latest area league to announce its all-league teams, making them public Friday afternoon. 

The FSL does not award an individual MVP honor, but has nine players on an all-league first team along with five honorable mentions. The entire Friends’ Central starting lineup — seniors Nal’la Bennett (Stony Brook), Kaiya Rain Tucker (Friends’ Central) and Logyn Greer (Colorado) plus sophomore Zya Small and freshman Faith Watson — earned a spot on the FSL first team, along with three Westtown School high-major Division I recruits in junior Atlee Vanesko and sophomores Jordyn Palmer and Jessie Moses.

The boys’ first team features a trio of players from league champ Academy of the New Church in juniors Dior Carter, Bryce Rollerson and Cameron Smith; runner-up George School also got three in senior Luke Melniczak and juniors Peyton Miller and Kasey Fleming.

The complete list of honorees:

Girls’ All-Friends Schools League
First Team
Nal’la Bennett (Sr. | Friends’ Central)
Logyn Greer (Sr. | Friends’ Central)
Jessie Moses (Soph. | Westtown School)
Jordyn Palmer (Soph. | Westtown School)
Zya Small (Soph. | Friends’ Central)
Kaiya Rain Tucker (Sr. | Friends’ Central)
Atlee Vanesko (Jr. | Westtown School)
Gabby Vaughn (Jr. | Shipley School)
Faith Watson (Fr. | Friends’ Central)

Honorable Mention
Kennedy Henry (Sr. | Westtown School)
Taylor Linton (Fr. | Germantown Friends)
Maya Ravindranathan (Soph. | George School)
CIdney Stanfield (Fr. | Shipley School)
Melody Vaughn (8th. | Shipley School)

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Boys’ All-Friends Schools League
First Team
Dior Carter (Jr. | Academy New Church)
Jay Chiles (Sr. | Friends’ Select)
Jordan Dill (Jr. | Germantown Friends)
Kasey Fleming (Jr. | George School)
Luke Melniczak (Sr. | George School)
Peyton Miller (Jr. | George School)
Zamir Parker-Barnes (Sr. | Abington Friends)
Bryce Rollerson (Jr. | Academy New Church)
Cameron Smith (Jr. | Academy New Church)

Honorable Mention
Patrese Feamster (Soph. | Friends’ Central)
Jayden Forsythe (Sr. | Westtown School)
Isaiah Marshall (Sr. | Friends’ Select)
Marquis Newson (Soph. | Academy New Church)
Cam Wallace (Sr. | Westtown School)