Delran Living

Soccer Standout Heading to Chicago

The whirlwind for Delran's Calri Lloyd continued today with the Womens Professional Soccer allocation.  Just weeks after winning gold in China and celebrating with Delran's Labor Day Parade, soccer standout Carli Lloyd is now a member of the Chicago Red Stars.

For those not familiar, the WPS was formed last September 2007 and plans to start play next April 2009.  Today was the day that the league announced the initial list of players that will start filling out it's teams rosters.  Additional players will be added to teams with a draft to be held Sept 22.You can learn more about the WPS at the Women's Professional Soccer website. 

Labor Day Parade for Lloyd

In the odd event that you missed the news in the Courier Post, BCT, NewsDay, Inquirer, or the township homepage - we're having a parade for gold medal winner Carli Lloyd!

"The parade will begin Sept. 1 at 10 a.m at Vermes Field on Tenby Chase Drive in Delran. The route will turn left onto Haines Mill Road before proceeding onto Conrow Road. It will then turn left on Hartford Road before ending with a ceremony attended by local officials and members of the state Assembly on the Delran High School football field."

"The parade is expected to include string bands, marching bands, color guards, fire engines and, of course, Lloyd, a 2000 graduate of Delran High School, who scored the lone goal in the U.S. women's soccer team's 1-0 win over Brazil on Thursday to capture the gold medal."

Carli Lloyd Delivers Again

This time it's for Olympic gold!

From NBC:
Carli Lloyd scored in the first period of extra time to give the U.S. a 1-0 victory over Brazil in the gold-medal match of the women's Olympic soccer tournament. The victory is the Americans' second-straight over Brazil in an Olympic final.

Lloyd's 98th goal broke a scoreless deadlock that nevertheless featured several good scoring chances by both sides, with goalkeepers Hope Solo of the U.S. and Brazil's Barbara consistently thwarting attackers.

Lloyed nearly put her team up 2-0 in the second period of extra time. The U.S. midfielder broke free into the box a second time in the 116th minute, but her 15-yard shot from Barbara's right post hit the far post and was cleared by a Brazilian defender.

Floating Over Delran - Into My Mailbox

Back in March I first posted about this photo.  It's a picture overlooking Delran from a hot air balloon taken by Anthony DiFilippo.  I had contacted Anthony and he let me post a copy of the picture on this site.  A couple of months later we got to meet briefly as he was taking photo's for the Delran AA and I have two little ones in t-ball.  Anthony takes some pretty nice pictures but I am always drawn to this photo. 

Fast forward to yesterday and a framed version arrived in my mailbox.  I think it looks ever better in print and framed.  Now I need to find a place to hang it. 

I've got mine, time to get yours!  Just click over to order from Anthony's website.

This photo is in my Delran NJ photo set on Flickr. All rights reserved

Carli Lloyd Scores Big

From the Star Ledger:

Goal by Delran's Carli Lloyd gives women's soccer much-needed 1-0 victory

Leave it up to the Jersey girl to save the day.  The U.S. women's soccer team - once the top team in the world but suddenly in danger of not making it out of the qualifying round - got a goal from Carli Lloyd to get a much-needed and much harder than expected 1-0 victory over Japan.

Lloyd, a native of Delran who played at Rutgers, scored in the 27th minute when whe volleyed a cross from defender Stephanie Cox just under the crossbar.

The U.S. looked far from gold-medal form, but did enough against a dangerous Japanese side to pick up a much-needed three points in Group G after dropping its opener against Norway.

The Americans created a host of scoring opportunities, but were only able to capitalize once.

Lloyd is one of four Jerseyans on the team, joining defender and captain Christie Pearce-Rampone (Point Pleasant), Heather O'Reilly (East Brunswick) and Tobin Heath (Basking Ridge).

Rampone just missed a goal of her own when her second-half header went wide of the net.

The United States, which plays New Zealand in its final group match on Tuesday in Shenyang, has three points in the group. Japan has one point, and faces Norway next in Shanghai.

Women's soccer is divided in three four-team groups with the top two teams in each group (and the two best third-place teams) reaching the single-elimination quarterfinals.

Carli Lloyd & Lindy Hops Introduces New Ice Cream Flavor

PRESS RELEASE

HOMETOWN HERO TO INTRODUCE NEW ICE CREAM FLAVOR: PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT LOCAL YOUTH SOCCER PROGRAMS

 

Carli Lloyd, Delran resident and member of the Women’s National Team will be off to Beijing to represent the USAin the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.  At 7 PM, on Friday, July 18^th ; Lindy Hops Homemade Ice Cream and Water Ice, 88 Hartford Road, Delran, will introduce an new ice cream created and named by Carli.  Proceeds from the sale of this ice cream will be used to support local youth soccer programs and off set the cost for children to attend Carli Lloyd’s Soccer camps. 

 

Carli will be present to greet everyone, sign autographs and scoop her favorite ice cream for you.

 

Please join us in wishing Carli luck and let her know just how proud we are of her.

If you would like more information about this event, please contact Ashley Lloyd at office@carlilloyd.com or Paul Sarnese at lindyhopsdelran@aol.com or 856 764-5950.

 

 

Delran Native Next Top Model Finalist

Sunny Dublick, a Delran native, has been selected as a finalist in South Jersey Magazine's "Next Top Model" contest.  I received an email from her mom over the weekend sharing her story:

Sunny graduated from Delran High School (2004) and from Burlington County College (2006), and is scheduled to graduate from Rowan University on 5/16/08 with a B.S. in Marketing. She received tuition assistance from the NJ STARS program for both BCC and Rowan and is a member of four honor societies at Rowan with a 3.8 GPA. Sunny has lived most of her life in Delran.

Her picture was featured in the April 2008 issue (Volume 5, Issue 1), page 40. Voting is done on-line, and the winner receives a photo shoot in an upcoming summer issue.  To vote on-line, go to: www.SouthJersey.com/topmodel and vote for "Sunny"

Floating Over Delran: Anthony DiFilippo

 

(click photo for a larger view)

As I was searching through the blogsphere this past week, I stumbled upon the above picture of Delran.  I personally thought it was a great picture and wanted to post it here to share. 

Upon researching who took this photo, I found out it was Delran's own Anthony DiFilippo of 26 Street Studio.  Anthony has been a Delran resident since 1974 and many know him through the photo's he takes for the Delran AA.  The following is a quote from Anthony:

"It has been a long time dream of mine to have people see the world like I see it.  It was my 13th Birthday, 12/26/1981 when I was given my first SLR camera. I looked through the lens and saw the world in a different way.  Since that day I try to show that stopping moments in time will help to enjoy them forever. 

Anyone can click a shutter button, but can they capture the moment? can they look back 25 years later and have it mean something to them or anyone that sees it? 
I want you to see what I see - to feel the moment in time that made me press that shutter.  They all mean something to me...

Please email me if you would like me to capture memories for you at your event ... I've had experience in many corporate events, weddings and various other events.

eMail me at 26StreetStudio@comcast.net... I hope you enjoy seeing the world through my eyes!"

If you wanted to purchase a print of the photo above, or view Anthony's other work, you can visit his site at 26StreetStudio.com