The Pennington School celebrates its senior athletes who have committed to DI and DII colleges or universities for the fall of 2026. The following young men will be playing DI football: AJ Cartusciello from Morrisville, PA, will attend Wagner College, Nisaiah Maldonado from Queensbury, NY, will attend Bryant University, Bryce Werner from Philadelphia, PA, will attend Lehigh University, and Bryce Williams from Venice, Florida, will attend SUNY University at Buffalo. Another athlete moving on to play a sport at the DI level is Sebastian Calderon Chubb, of Maplewood, NJ, who will continue his rowing at the University of California San Diego.
A total of four student-athletes will continue to play women’s soccer in college at the DII level and above. At the DI level, Sara Chrnelich from Pennington, NJ, will play at Georgetown University and Elizabeth Holstein of Newtown, PA, will play for Binghamton University. Ava Brochon from Bensalem, PA, will play at Thomas Jefferson University and Nora Close from Pennington, NJ, will play at Flagler College, both for women’s soccer at the DII level. Also on the women’s side, Lolita Nechay from Titusville, NJ, is headed to St. Mary’s College of California for DI rowing and Geneviève Vallières from Princeton, NJ, will play DI field hockey at the University of Louisville.
Here are the eleven seniors who have committed to playing a DI or DII sport in college, arranged by state and hometown:
FLORIDA
Venice: Bryce Williams, DI Football, SUNY University at Buffalo
NEW JERSEY
Maplewood: Sebastian Calderon Chubb, DI Rowing, University of California San Diego
Pennington: Sara Chrnelich, DI Women’s Soccer, Georgetown University; Nora Close, DII Women’s Soccer, Flagler College
Princeton: Geneviève Vallières, DI Field Hockey, University of Louisville
Titusville: Lolita Nechay, DI Rowing, St. Mary’s College of California
NEW YORK
Queensbury: Nisaiah Maldonado, DI Football, Bryant University
PENNSYLVANIA
Bensalem: Ava Brochon, DII Women’s Soccer, Thomas Jefferson University
Morrisville: AJ Cartusciello, DI Football, Wagner College
Newtown: Elizabeth Holstein, DI Women’s Soccer, Binghamton University
Philadelphia: Bryce Werner, DI Football, Lehigh University
