Whether it was coaching the girls’ basketball team at Columbia High School, or serving on the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education, Johanna Wright has always had a true passion for her job. On the evening of August 26 at the Grand Pavilion Ballroom in the Embassy Suites Hotel in Winston-Salem, N.C., Wright was one of […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ – The West Orange High School girls’ varsity soccer team is poised to have another stellar season. The Mountaineers, under head coach Sean DeVore, return 10 starters from last year’s team that finished with a 12-6-3 record. The returning players are senior goalkeeper Samantha Herbert, senior forward Kaylese Gist, junior midfielders Kaitlyn […]
NUTLEY, NJ – The Nutley High School varsity football team has shown tremendous determination and work ethic, much to the delight of head coach Steve DiGregorio, who is back at the helm of the Raiders program. “Our work ethic has been pretty darn good,” said DiGregorio as he was getting his team ready for the […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ – The Montclair State University field hockey team and head coach Eileen O’Reilly, along with assistant coach Hannah Weitzmann, ran a clinic for the Glen Ridge High School field hockey team on Tuesday, August 22, at George Washington field in Glen Ridge. It was a great success. GRHS Athletic Director Tim Liddy, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ – The Bloomfield High School varsity football team has been practicing hard in preparation for the 2017 season. Coming off a 7-3 playoff campaign last fall, the Bengals will kick off the season Sept. 8 at home against Columbia HS at Foley Field at 7 p.m. Mike Carter enters his 27th year as […]
IRVINGTON, NJ – Irvington High School hosted perennial powerhouse Bergen Catholic in a JV football scrimmage on Monday night, August 21. The photos are from the game. Photos by Dr. John Taylor/IHS Athletic Director.
IRVINGTON, NJ – The Irvington High School football team is getting ready for the upcoming season. The Blue Knights, under second-year head coach “Smoke” Pierre, have held practices at the IHS Sports Complex since the beginning of the month. They participated in their first scrimmages of the preseason last Saturday at Pope John HS in […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ – The Seton Hall Prep football and soccer teams this fall will have a home field. For football, it will be the first time since October 22, 2011, and for soccer, it will be the first time since October 26, 2015 that they will have games at a home field. The new […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ – Belleville High School’s new athletic director, Marcellino Marra, is excited about leading the Buccaneers athletic department as the 2017-18 school year begins in a few weeks. Marra comes over from nearby Nutley High School where he served as the head boys’ varsity soccer coach for the past 11 seasons. He was previously […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ – If you want to learn the art of shooting a basketball, there’s no better person than Dave Hopla, a world-renowned shooting expert. Boys and girls in grades 6-12 got a chance to listen and learn from Hopla during a clinic held at Glen Ridge High School on Thursday, August 17. The […]