This year the National Football Foundation celebrated 38 scholar athletes and renamed its Suffolk County chapter.

Now known as the James C. Metzger Chapter after Half Hollow Hills star athlete turned business leader, the chapter honored its scholar athletes and Golden Eleven at an event at the Hyatt Regency in Hauppauge.

Westhampton Beach’s Chris Dileo won the first James C. Metzger Award presented to the top scholar-athlete in the county.

Dielo is an  AP Scholar with Distinction, and member of the Science Honor Society, World Language Honor Society and Math Honor Society.  He was first team all-division and all-county on the gridiron.

2019 National Football Foundation Golden Eleven Honorees

• Nicholas Baldino – East Islip High School
• Jonathan Koumas – Huntington High School
• Joseph Montiglio – West Islip High School
• Matthew Schreiber – Mt. Sinai High School
• Dean Shaffer – Smithtown East High School
• Ryan Bosak – Kings Park High School
• Kieran McGinley – Ward Melville High School
• Michael Scoleri – Saville High School
• Matthew Robbert – Centereach High School
• William Singleton – Babylon High School
• Thomas Verga – William Floyd High School