After three years in the Marines, he went to North Carolina State and played three varsity seasons on the hardwood there. He also played defensive back. He coached all three seasons for 11 years, starting the indoor program. The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. Napier was head coach for three of the four seasons (1977-79) while the teams went 35-0 in dual meet competition. Harry Grundy (Class of 1942) made his mark in Ridgewood High School athletics in baseball, where he was a three-year varsity letter winner and a co-captain his senior year. That is exactly what happened to John Cerf and why he began his path to becoming one of the most accomplished gymnasts of his day and eventually a member of a national champion college team. Jim continued his expertise with the 65-66 team a 20-4 and .833 then the 69-70 at 22-4 coming in at .846. Her performance in the 4 x 1-mile relay still stands as a Bergen County record and was the national record when run in 1983 and stood as the best mark ever for 17 years. A three-time varsity letter winner in both indoor and outdoor track, he also found time to earn two varsity letters in soccer before giving up the sport to focus on jumping. He finishes the 2017 season as head coach of the program with anoverall varsity team record of 485 wins, 154 losses and 38 ties. Leigh is currently living in New York, playing Lacrosse for the New York Athletic Club and working for the architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). Also an Academic All American that season Leigh was selected for the first time to the US Lacrosse Associations U19 24 player training camp. He finished college at Rutgers but did not compete for the Scarlet Knights. His records, accomplishments and his legacy have stood the test of time. With her sister, Patti, she set school records in six relays. In 2007, Patti succeeded the legendary Coach Paul, and led the Maroons to a career W/L record over 15 seasons of 246 101, a 71% winning record. He accepted a job with commercial real estate development company Trammel Crow and spent his entire career there. She returned to RHS, where she was an assistant softball coach for several years. of the baseball team at RHS spring of his senior year (1966) and was recognized with All League and All Suburban team selections. In his article for "The Record" on January 6, 2015 announcing Maureen Grieco's retirement from her position in the athletic department at Ridgewood High School, sports writer Darren Cooper wrote "Maureen Grieco never won a championship for Ridgewood. At the University of Georgia Clair continued to improve her running. Sullivan completed his collegiate lacrosse career in 1996 as the Captain of the Bears and was named 1st Team All-Ivy League and Honorable Mention All-American. For a woman to even come out for a sport in 1973 was a challenge over peer group influence. There was no league and the girls played an independent schedule. He was All-County twice and All-State his senior year when he was team captain. He shot 51 percent from the floor and 86 percent from the foul line his senior year, when he averaged nine rebounds, four assists, two blocked shots and two steals. 1979 Softball Their crowning achievement, however, was the 4 x 1-mile relay, as Ridgewood set a national record in that event that lasted for 17 years. After her high school career, Patti continued her softball career at East Stroudsburg as starting centerfielder all four college years, and being named team captain her junior and senior seasons. But the reality was that when the 1983 season came to a close Ridgewood did in fact go undefeated making them the only public high school to do so that year with a record of 29 victories, no loses and no ties, with the Championship of the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic Leagues Bergen Division, the Bergen County Championship with a hard fought 1-0 victory in eleven innings versus a very strong Ramsey team ( 25-3 Ranked # 6 in the state) and the New Jersey Group 4 State Championship. Not knowing if his son was going to get back on track or not, their worries were curtailed when John met Ridgewood Hall of Fame Gymnastics Coach Tony Napier. Hubie Brown coached football, basketball and baseball at Fair Lawn High School. She served in this position until July 2001, when she was appointed to assistant special agent in charge (ASAC) of the Special Operations Branch. Many of coach Napier's gymnasts captured individual titles during his tenure as well. Ridgewood finished 16-1, undefeated in the regular season and then went 16-1 and 19-0 in 1990 and 1991 respectively. At GW Jeff started the first freshman baseball program in Ridgewood and in 1975 became the Asst. After graduation, he spent several years consulting in the energy industry and then received an MBA from Duke University. She is the head golf professional at Island Dunes Country Club in Jensen Beach, Florida, and was named to the Ladies Professional Golf Association and was named the 2002 Professional of the Year by the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division. As he learned and became confident employing Coach Gardners system, he began logging many minuets as a penalty killer. Please be aware of any professional involvement in their particular sport.You may also nominate coaches and individuals who have had a significant impact on the development of athletics at RHS. He set a standard by posting a 9.8 100 in his senior season. He scored 735 points over the 1948-49-50 seasons, was named All-County twice and selected on the All-State third team his senior season. Her Blue Devil statistics place her among the elite that have played the game at that level with 141 goals for Duke while giving 63 assists .She accumulated 204 points while starting in 80 of 81 career matches for Duke. When one looks at what Nancy achieved as a student athlete and then what she achieved as a coach of student athletes, it's easy to see why the nominator in 1993 was able to make such a bold statement. Class of 1991 O'Connor also played baseball and was a three-year varsity letter winner for head coach Jack Van Yperen and assistant coach Jeff Yearing. . Many of his players continued on to illustrious collegiate tennis careers. le-de-France is the focus of France's various communications networks. Toshiko Kishimoto d'Elia grew up amid the chaos and ravages of post-war Japan and went on to become a pioneer in women's running; setting numerous American and World records at every age division and distance. In 1966, DeRochi took issue with those who felt that participation in athletics interfered with an athlete's scholastic work. Her sister, Debbie O'Connell, who was the catcher on those team, was inducted into the RHS Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004. 1964 - 1971 Head Boys Basketball Coach All-told, he gave 42 years to Ridgewood youth as teacher and coach and in the Parks and Recreation Department. In all of those years through all of those games, through wins and losses and the occasional tie, no one in RHS history has thrown the football for more yards or more touchdowns than Paul Tornatore. dashes his Senior year including running a blistering 9.8 seconds in the 100 yd. President: Elected every 6 years. Only those who possessed the best physical development and showed endurance to stand the strain and endured to the end, made the team". Upon his graduation in 2000, Kauke's 1:50.19 ranked as fifth-fastest in New Jersey history. They administer the checkbook, and collect and disburse the cash paying referees, timekeepers and scorekeepers. AD 1945-1966, Baseball 1938-42 - 1946-56 During Clairs 4-year career the Ridgewood cross country team never lost a meet in northern New Jersey. His 1941 team won the Group 3 state championship. She was also an outstanding basketball player and played on the State Group IV Championship team at RHS. In his career at Brown, he played in 45 games, scored 10 goals, with 11 assists and garnered two Ivy League Championships. His second trip over the goal line also came from the 1 as he "went through that same hole at center for the touchdown." In the annals of the rich track and field tradition at Ridgewood High School, Craig Halyard remains a notch above the rest. He was All-Ivy League in indoor track in 2003 and 2004 and has the sixth-best indoor time in the 800 meters in Princeton history. Caring was his inspiration to his football players. At Ridgewood she ran three sports: Cross Country, Winter Track and Spring Track, earning 12 varsity letters. After two years in Millburn (1972-74) where he also served as a volunteer freshman boy's soccer coach, freshman basketball coach and JV baseball coach, Jeff was hired by the Ridgewood Public Schools to teach physical education at the George Washington Jr. High School beginning in the fall of 1974. Jones has been honored by the North Jersey Masters Track and Field Club for helping the Ridgewood Run to become one of the top road races in New Jersey, and he covered 23 of the first 25 races, starting in 1976. "The players psyched themselves," he would say. The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was the organization that over saw college women's athletics prior to Title 9 implementation and prior to the NCAA taking an interest in college women's sports. Wrote Phillips, "Lyons was hailed as Bergen County's premier scholastic softball player this season." According to an article in the May 25 edition of The Ridgewood Herald, "George Monro's circuit drive in the final frame drove in the winning tallies and pulled the game out of the fire for Cal Dinkins, as Ridgewood set Pompton Lakes back for the second time in a tight 3 to 2 contest yesterday afternoon at the Lakeside Oval." He was a center linebacker on the football team and starting shortstop on the baseball team, again having a .300 plus batting average at the end of his prep playing experience. In 1959 he was named to the Ridgewood News All suburban 1st team and in 1960 he was named a 1st team guard on the All NNJIL and All Bergen County teams as well as 1st team All Suburban .He was also named to the New York Daly News Bergen/Passaic All Star team as the only junior on the squad representing the top 60 high school football players in the Metropolitan area for the 1960 season. In 2003, he was the head coach of the AC Milan U17 team that advanced to the Delaware State Cup Finals. The boys golf team had 97 wins and two county titles. Being one of the best basketball players in RHS history has propelled him into the Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall of Fame, Class of 2014. During his tenure as head baseball coach, DeRochi worked with a number of gifted players, including Harry Grundy, who, as his ace pitcher, helped him win back-to-back championships in 1940 and 1941, and Don Haldane, a star in football, basketball and baseball, who died in World War II. She was 1st Team All-NNJIL, 1st Team All-Suburban, 1st Team All-Area, 1st Team All-Bergen County, 1st Team All-State and was named to the Bergen Record's 1990's All-Decade Team. There is little doubt that Leigh Jester set the standard that so many Maroon Lacrosse players strive to achieve today. The 2018 inductees to the Ridgewood High School Alumni Hall of Fame come from a variety of professions such as law enforcement, construction and behavioral health. A three time varsity letter winner and two time Captain of the Ridgewood High School Track and Field team, Henderson won NNJIL Championships in the 440 yd. Harold Cheel and Stan Wardell were the team managers. Coming from wealth in no way deterred her fierce desire to succeed on her own. Inducted 2008. In 1960 She married Manfred d'Elia, and with her daughter, Erica, started a long and fulfilling life in the village of Ridgewood, NJ. He made second team All-County in the 400 relay and honorable mention All-County in the 100 butterfly. Further in her job description it is noted she provided administrative support for each sport including ordering equipment, athletic physicals, parental permission slips, eligibility records, athletic letters, preparation for awards dinners and typing recommendations for student athletes presented to her by her coaches. Golfers had to shoot forty five or better over nine holes during the state qualifier to qualify to play in the state tournament.While Dave Vanderbush built the RHS girls golf program, Julia and her teammate Eunae Jo were excited to support the new girls joining the team. The boys program had a combined record of 20-34 in it first four years of competition. Eunae and her teammate Julia both qualified. He covered their football, baseball and basketball teams as a stringer for the also now defunct Paterson Morning Call. John's speed, toughness and strong arm were assets for an outstanding tailback. In 1960 Dave also posted a time of 48.3 seconds in the 440 which would place him him 5th on Yale's record sheet for that event in 1960.It is a time that would rank him tied for 15th all time today. George Monro, a 1939 graduate, is one of the all-time great three-sport athletes in the history of Ridgewood High School. Sullivan is currently a vice president of operations for a national real estate developer and oversees the process of greening/creating eco-friendly apartment communities. SoftBall Coach A steady infielder playing third base and shortstop on the baseball team, Roger hit for an average over .300 in each of his high school seasons.