| New Providence Cross Country
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Written by Kevin Baumer Photos By Audrey Kerchner
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New Providence residents probably aren’t surprised when they see Caitlin Toner run down their street. After all, she runs five or six times a week, about 30 miles in all, through a town that isn’t quite four square miles in size; so chances are Toner has passed by most of its homes.
But Toner, 18, isn’t pa...
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| Scotch Plains Soccer
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Written by Kevin Baumer Photos By Audrey Kerchner
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You’ll notice many boys wearing T-shirts bearing the logo “Tradition and Excellence†at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys’ soccer practices.
That’s because for Coach Tom Breznitsky and the rest of the Raiders, winning isn’t just a nice surprise, it’s an expect...
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| Jankowski Sisters - Governor Livingston Soccer
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Written by Jessica Quiroli Photos By: Anne Kasten
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 Governor Livingston's girls’ soccer team has the benefit of new challenges to learn and grow from this season.
The Highlanders also have a strong sibling combination that increased their chances against some tough teams, which, this season, included formidable Scotts Plains-Fanwood and Westfield.
Junior forward Jessica Jankowski, an...
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| Xenith Helmets
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Written by Blythe Bachety
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  When former Harvard quarterback Vincent Ferrara founded Xenith LLC, his motives went way beyond creating a protective football helmet to prevent head injury. The goal for Ferrara and his team was to decrease concussion rates while focusing on advancing safety through ed...
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| Cranford Volleyball
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Written by Bill Green Photos by Sal Forgione
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 A championship is not something that just anyone can lay claim to. Very few in the history of sport, on any level, can truly call themselves a legitimate champion. Lucy Diaz is one of those people who can. After years of promise, but falling just short, the 2008 Cranford Lady Cougars varsity volleyball team was crowned champions of their sport by winning the 2...
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| Perth Amboy Volleyball
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Written by Kevin Haslam Photos By: Sal Forgione
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Two years ago, Greg Ficarra Perth Amboy High School’s athletic director nonchalantly requested to have official volleyball lines painted on the gym floor. It was a little bit of a gamble by Ficarra, but little did anyone know that by October of this year, the school would have a girls volleyball team that was competing in junior varsity...
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| Allen Eke - Union Catholic Cross Country
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Written by Michelle Tuchol Photos By Audrey Kerchner
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Allen Eke has big dreams for himself this year.
“I’ve always wanted to win the Meet of Champions,†Eke said. The meet, part of the New Jersey Cross Country State Championship, is an annual cross-country meet for both boys and girls held every November.
Coach Mike McCabe did n...
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 Stacey Slaughter was in top shape heading into the school year and was preparing to make the switch from soccer, which she’s played all her life, to cross-country. But Slaughter’s big change was made all the more difficult one August night last year when a car hit her and her teammate as they crossed the street during a cross-country practice. ...
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 For new head coach Mike Adams and the Parsippany Red Hawks, there’s nowhere to go but up. The team is coming off a tough 0-10 season where they scored only 32 points and gave up 402. They haven’t won a game since Nov. 3, 2006 (a 21-13 win over Dover), a string of 31 consecutive losses.
It’s a daunting task for ...
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 Entering his seventh year of coaching at Rahway High School, coach Gary Mobley is confident in his 2010 team, which he considers to be a much different team than its 2009 counterpart. That team went 7-3 and just missed the playoffs. Although some of the leaders are returning this season, 17 seniors are missing from last year’s team.
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 After improving Chatham High School’s record from 3-7 to 6-4 last year, head coach Don Morgenroth is determined to open up his attack.
“Last year we threw the ball probably 20 percent of the time,†Morgenroth said. “We’re hoping to shoot more for 40, maybe 50 percent this year.â€
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“ The Secret to Team Buildingâ€Establishing the essence of a team falls on the shoulders of the coach. It takes great skill and character to achieve team cohesion.
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Last April was like a month-long Christmas morning for New York baseball fans. After the long wait for new ballparks for the Yankees and Mets, two retro-styled millionaire playgrounds arose from what were temporary construction sites in the Bronx and Queens, respectively.
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It's a relaxed atmosphere the Friday before the end of camp on the playing fields of South Plainfield High School. With a team barbecue at a local park to look forward to later that day, the Tigers form a strait line at practice's end to head coach Phlip McGuane for individual ass...
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It's 11:20 a.m. and practice was supposed to end at 11 a.m. The sound of pads cracking against plastic fills the air as senior running back Ross Kurtz leaps over a fellow teammate to score a touchdown during a five-on-five drill. Coaches and teammates go wild. A small crowd of spectators forms at the field's edge. Th...
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 Being teachable. Being relevant. These are the things coach John Power wants his team to be this season. Power, who’s in his third-year of coaching at Hillside, constantly stresses the importance of hard work to his players. The team went 4-6 last season due to a number of injuries, but it is a new season a...
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