WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep high school winter season has been completed but the swim club season continues. The big news from last weekend is that SHP senior Richard Poplawski qualified for the United States Olympic Trials in two events. Poplawski, a Clifton resident, competed for the Scarlet Aquatic Club at the 2024 […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep swimming team ended another great season, participating in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Meet of Champions, which was held at Gloucester County Institute of Technology in Sewell over the weekend. The Pirates swept the three relay events, all in school-record fashion, and had a second-place […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep swimming team captured the Super Essex Conference/Essex County Swimming Championship, featuring record-setting performances, on Monday, Jan. 15, at the Jersey Aquatic Center in New Providence. Following the meet, SHP head coach Joe Alexander said, “Winning this meet means quite a lot. Sometimes I wonder if we take […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep swimming team had another great season. The Pirates completed the season with a 12-1 record and were ranked No. 8 in the state in the Star-Ledger final poll. They won the Super Essex Conference–American Division and the Essex County Tournament. The following SHP athletes were selected to […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep swimming team traveled to the Raritan Bay YMCA in Perth Amboy to take on No. 1 seed St. Augustine Prep in the semifinal round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Non-Public A state tournament on Monday, Feb. 20. The Pirates lost 91-79. Their final record […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep swimming team captured its 25th consecutive Essex County Swimming Championships with 345 points at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. The Pirates won five events, including a meet-record performance by junior Richard Poplawski in the 200-yard individual medley in 1 minute, 52.15 seconds. Senior Kyler Alcebar […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep swimming team had an outstanding week last week. On Monday, Feb. 21, the fourth-seeded Pirates traveled to the Neptune Aquatic Center in Neptune City to take on top-seeded St. Augustine Prep in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Non-Public A state tournament semifinals. The Pirates won, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The first Essex County Swimming Championship for boys took place in 1965. The girls meet was added in 1974. In 2010, the meet also became the championship meet of the newly formed Super Essex Conference. For the 25th time, Seton Hall Prep was the boys team champion at the Super Essex […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Men of Essex Inc. selected Irvington High School football phenom Mikai Gbayor as recipient of the 63rd annual Essex Award. Gbayor was a standout linebacker for Irvington High School and was named a 2020 All-American candidate by Sports Illustrated. He was named to the USA Today All–New Jersey first team. […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The selections of the Super Essex Conference “all conference” swim teams were calculated by reviewing the fastest recorded times this past season. Because of the pandemic, no SEC championship meet was conducted. Named to the boys swimming first team were: Seton Hall Prep’s Jaeden Yburan, Dylan Negron, Richard Poplawski and Jack […]