In a competitive field of accomplished athletes, two have emerged.

The Billy Schoppy Award winners from the Cape-Atlantic League Class of 2025 are Khajuan Roseborough, a two-sport all star from Atlantic City High School, and Sofia Day, the highly successful distance and middle distance runner from Mainland Regional.

This is the 25th year of the awards, sponsored by Prime Events and Schoppy Inc. You can check out the winners and finalists for the previous 24 years HERE.

Roseborough put up impressive numbers for the Vikings. As the quarterback in football, he guided Atlantic City into the South Jersey championship game for only the second time in school history. He threw for 2,171 yards in his career and 24 touchdowns, including six in one game – an all-time CAL record. He ran for 803 yards and seven more touchdowns. As a junior he caught 10 passes for 116 yards and another TD. On the other side of the ball, he made 63 tackles, including seven for losses, and intercepted nine passes, returning two for touchdowns.

During the basketball season, “Peaky” Roseborough, who transferred from Holy Spirit as a junior, scored 1,020 points, made 75 three-pointers, hit 73 percent from the foul line and had more than 200 assists. He led the Vikings to a conference championship, the semi-finals of the CAL Tournament and the Ken Leary Memorial Award as the CAL’s highest ranked team.

Roseborough is the fourth ACHS athlete to win the award and the third male winner. The last was Flash Morgan in 2018. The other two – Dayshawn Reynolds and Colleen Callahan – were winners in 2013 when Atlantic City swept the two awards. Roseborough will move on to West Chester University.

Roseborough was selected from the 12 finalists in a vote by selected media. The other finalists were Max Adelizzi of Middle Township; Lotzeir Brooks and Jamal Wallace of Millville; Cliff Dirkes, Tom Grimley and Evan Taylor of Ocean City; Jake Edwards and Anthony Liakhnovich of Hammonton; Mason Forte of Holy Spirit; Julian Onesti of St. Augustine; and Mandel Pettiford of Cedar Creek. More about the other male finalists is HERE.

Day introduced herself to the sports scene as a freshman, winning the CAL cross country championship race by more than a minute. She went on to finish in the top three in South Jersey Group 3 and in the state Group 3 meet.

She was Group 3 South Jersey and state champion in the indoor 800 meters as a sophomore. She won the CAL cross country meet both her junior and senior years, won the South Jersey 800 and 1600 indoors as a junior and went on to win the state 800 meters race. And in her junior year she won the CAL Meet in the 800, won the South Jersey Group 3 800 meters and went on to win both the 800 and 1600 in the state Group 3 Meet.

That adds up to four state titles, four South Jersey titles and four championships in CAL meets.

Day played lacrosse for two years and battled some injuries and illnesses but her success as a mid-distance and distance runner was impressive. She becomes the fourth Mainland athlete to win the award. The most recent was Cohen Cook last year. Others from MRHS were Camryn Dirkes in 2022 and Alyssa Aldridge in 2018. Sofia will do her running for Vanderbilt starting in the fall.

The other 11 female finalists from the Class of 2025 were Reese Downey and Jaidah Garrett of Absegami; Sabrina Little of Holy Spirit; Adelina Wilks of Bridgeton; Maeve Smith and Naomi Nnewihe of Ocean City; Leah Mears of Vineland; Scarlet McGl;inchey of Our Lady of Mercy; Daizhae Brown of Cedar Creek; Amanda Daino of Cape May Tech; and Kiley Kozlowski of Hammonton. More about the female finalists is HERE.

Ocean City High School won the Ed Byrnes Memorial All-Sports Award – read about it HERE. Gabby Eaise of Our Lady of Mercy won the Frank Campo Memorial Humanitarian Award – you can read about her HERE.

The Tony Surace Award for the highest ranked CAL football team went to Millville. The final rankings are HERE. The Ken Leary Memorial Award for the highest ranked boys basketball team went to Atlantic City. Those final rankings are HERE. And the Joe Fussner Award for the highest ranked girls basketball team went to Wildwood Catholic. Check those final rankings HERE.

The dedication of Dave Talarico, the grandson of William Schoppy and nephew of Billy Schoppy, to making sure the accomplishments of the CAL student-athletes are properly recognized makes all this possible.

Over the last couple decades, awards like The Billy Schoppy Awards were presented at an annual celebration of the CAL on the Ocean City Music Pier. But circumstances forced the cancellation of that event this year and all Prime Events awards are being distributed through the CAL’s 22 athletics directors.