Mid-Atlantic Prep League
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The Mid-Atlantic Prep League, also known as the MAPL, is a sports league with participating institutions from prep schools in the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania area in the United States. The league comprises schools known for their academic rigor, but the quality of play in all sports is fairly high. MAPL schools are allowed to have a limited number of post-graduates (student-athletes who have already graduated high school and are taking an intermediate step between high school and college) on their rosters.
Schools competing in the league include:
| School | Location | Team Name |
| Blair Academy | Blairstown, New Jersey | Buccaneers |
| The Hill School | Pottstown, Pennsylvania | Blues |
| Hun School of Princeton | Princeton, New Jersey | Raiders |
| Lawrenceville School | Lawrenceville, New Jersey | Big Red |
| Mercersburg Academy | Mercersburg, Pennsylvania | Blue Storm |
| Peddie School | Hightstown, New Jersey | Falcons |
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[edit] Boys' Squash
The Lawrenceville School Boy's Varsity Squash Team has been the winner of the MAPL Squash Championships since 2002 and just last weekend 2/16/08 won it again for the 8th year in a row.
[edit] Boys' basketball
Since its inception in 1999, the MAPL has been an extremely competitive league and arguably the best combination of academics and basketball in the United States. While producing NBA players Luol Deng, Charlie Villanueva and Royal Ivey (all from Blair), as well as Joakim Noah (Lawrenceville), the MAPL has also become a pipeline for Ivy League basketball programs. From 2004-2008 no league in the country produced more Ivy League players than the MAPL and no single school in the country produced as many players as The Hun School.
The Hill School, led by seniors, Dave Singleton, Amauris Quezada, Ryan Ebner, and Patrick Lee, won the 2007-2008 MAPL Basketball league regular season championship and year-end tournament championship for the first time in school history. After winning the MAPL, Hill lost in overtime to ANC (at one point raked number #1 among prep schools) in the Pennsylvania Independent League Tournament.
The Hun School of Princeton has been one of the dominant programs in the MAPL league for years, at one point winning 4 straight championships and a State championship while placing 19 players on Division 1 rosters.
Lawrenceville has made it's share of contributions to MAPL basketball excellence over the years. Notable accomplishments include the 2003-04 Lawrenceville team that went 23-4 and beat national powerhouse Saint Benedict's Preparatory School of Newark, New Jersey. All five of Lawrenceville's starters on that team went on to play Division I basketball: David Whitehurst (Penn), Joakim Noah (leading scorer for Florida), Craig Moore (Northwestern), Andrew Morrison (Bucknell) and Kashif Sweet (Columbia). In 2005-2006 Noah went on to lead Florida to a 73-57 win over UCLA for the school's first NCAA basketball title, and was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. In addition, two former Lawrenceville players have walked on to major Division I programs: Mike Lepore (Wake Forest) and Nicky Sutton (Duke).
Mercersburg's recent basketball alumni include Stephane Pelle (Colorado) and Wes Miller (North Carolina).
[edit] Baseball
In recent years, varsity baseball in the MAPL has seen a rise in competitiveness, with several former players now playing in college and professionally. Former Peddie standout Fernando Perez was drafted in the 7th round of the 2004 amateur draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, after playing for Columbia. Nick Francona (Lawrenceville) was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in 2004. More recently, former Hun School pitcher Steve Garrison was selected in the 10th round of the 2005 draft by the Milwaukee Brewersand Michael Russo was selected in the 2008 draft by Philadelphia.
[edit] Boys' and Girls' Tennis
For the second year in a row, both the boys' and girls' tennis teams from Lawrenceville won the MAPL title. The boys defeated Hun in the final to win the title.
[edit] Football
Notable football alumni from the MAPL
- Myron Rolle (Florida State)
- Ben Pooler (Maryland)
- Devon Ramsey (Boston College)
- David Caldwell (William & Mary)
- Craig McGovern (Rutgers)
- Keith Hill (William & Mary)
- Taji Morris (Boston College)
- Derek Benson (Purdue)
- Luqman Abdallah (Miami)
- Shea McKeen (South Carolina)
- Samuel Richmond (University of Colorado - Boulder)
- John Kane (North Carolina State)
- Dom Natale (Rutgers)
- Junior Jabbie (Notre Dame)
- Ted Plenkett (Rowan)
- Malcolm Evans (La Salle University)
- Heath Benedict (Tennessee, Newberry)
- AJ Kizekai (Bucknell)
- Eric King (Wake Forest, Tennessee Titans)
[edit] Basketball
Notable Alumni from the MAPL
- Luol Deng (Duke, Chicago Bulls)
- Charlie Villanueva (UConn, Milwaukee Bucks)
- Royal Ivey (Texas, Atlanta Hawks)
- Joakim Noah (Florida, Chicago Bulls)
- Wellington Smith (West Virginia)
- Shamari Spears (Boston College)
- Justin Robinson (Rider)
- Pat Hazel (Marquette)
- Alexis Wangmene (Texas)
- Julius Coles (Canisius)
- David Singleton (High Point)
- Idris Hilliard (St. Joseph's, PA)
- Lance Goulbourne (Vanderbilt)
- Doug Davis (Princeton)
[edit] Class Of '08
Basketball
- Alex "Zeus" Vouyoukas (Davidson)
- Jarrett Mann (Stanford)
- David Singleton (High Point)
Football
- Ed Imeokparia (Florida State)
- Sean Rafferty (Bucknell)
- Danny Sagan (Stony Brook)
- Greg Kafaf (Colgate)
