They made the states every year that he coached. Her brother was a star at Ridgewood High School as was her older sister. The summer after his senior year of high school, Sullivan was training to make the Olympic trials cut at the Senior Nationals, but badly injured every muscle in his upper back. For his career Peter played a total of 102 games recording 79 goals and 78 assists for a total of 157 points averaging 1.54 points a game. Culver capped off the year by captaining the United States U-19 Team to the gold medal in the 2003 World Championships. Gymnast Gabby Douglas may be capturing the attention of America for her stellar all around performance in the 2012 London Olympic Games, but back in the late 1970's a certain Ridgewood gymnast was performing at a similar level, and her induction into the Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall of Fame proves that out. DuFlocq was the starting goalkeeper for the Maroons for the 1975-76 seasons. Said Ridgewood head coach Annie Fischer at the time, "James has always been very dedicated to the team. 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. David Bain, nicknamed the Ghost by his football teammates for his blazing speed and uncanny knack of running away from the opposition (he wore #77 like Red Grange "The Galloping Ghost' from Univ. She didn't coach. Playing right halfback, he led the Maroons in yardage gained and touchdowns for two seasons. In 1974, Paul organized and coached the first girls softball team at Ridgewood High School. "I view running as a tool to help me get through life, so I do everything I can to nurture it, take care of it, appreciate it. Her senior season included scoring 67 goals while dishing out 50 assists. 1975 Track and Field "I knew nothing about Ridgewood and didn't even know where it was,'' Brown remembered nearly 45 years later. She qualified and played in every tournament for her collegiate team over her entire four years as a Hoya. His career has also included stints with the Minnesota Strikers of the MISL and the Jersey Eagles of the ASL. Ridgewood finished 16-1, undefeated in the regular season and then went 16-1 and 19-0 in 1990 and 1991 respectively. Bringing the sport into the elementary schools in the early 1960s, coach Napier found the boys gymnastics club in 1967 at RHS. Julia Rappa , welcome to the Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall Of Fame. We want to connect you to your past through our dynamic online experience. Although it lasted only a little more than two seasons, their individual accomplishments and their total contributions to those two championship seasons are a famed milestone in Ridgewood High School track lore. Named Captain his senior year, Chris led the team to a 17-2-3 record, the league and county tournament championships, and was named first team all NNJIL, and first team All-County, contributing 9 Goals and 17 assists during the season. When he graduated, he held the single-season basketball scoring record. The 1986 squad boasted a career best 23-3 record for coach Batterson. In the June 14, 1979 edition of The Ridgewood News, Lyons was tabbed the Maroons Star Athlete of the Week after her team won the state title, and, in his story, Ron Phillips wrote for a lead paragraph: "A quarter century ago, Ray Bolger was the star of Broadway in the musical, "Where's Charlie?" We believed in ourselves and each other. Upon graduation from Trenton State in the spring of that same year, Roger took a position for the fall as an elementary school physical education teacher in Wanaque,New Jersey. Harold Cheel and Stan Wardell were the team managers. In 1990-91, his junior year, Pedone averaged 15.1 points per game while shooting 54% from the field, 35% from the 3-point arch, and 84% from the foul line. After leaving his mark in football and wrestling at Ridgewood High, Paul Ferraro has continued his career in athletics by advancing through the collegiate football coaching ranks to the National Football League. Coach Napier continues to be active in gymnastics nationally and internationally as a renowned judge. "We were having a meet and the coach was running practice on the track while it was going on,'' Brown remembers. To describe Rachel as being a coach's dream is meant to reflect her unselfish attitude about putting team above self. A slick, ball handing guard, he could get to the rim and score, but he was most feared as a deadly accurate outside shooter. He had 15 years of coaching experience under his belt when he was hired in 1943 to coach baseball at Ridgewood. 1988, 1989, 1990 1st Team All NNJIL. The four-sport athlete was an all-state running back and team co-captain his senior year season when the Maroons had a 6-3 record. In outdoor track, 76 Bergen Meet of Champions winner and 15 state group champions, 16 Bergen group team titles, 15 league titles and 10 sectional crowns. Strong in stature and character, no one was going to beat Rachel physically nor would they be able to out think or finesse her. Today, she continues to promote running with all her spirit and energy. He was named first-team all-county in the long jump for both indoor and outdoor seasons in both 1988 and 1989. Paul also excelled as a teacher in the Ridgewood school district, where she helped develop Ridgewood High School's excellent reputation for its physical education and wellness curriculum. During Clairs 4-year career the Ridgewood cross country team never lost a meet in northern New Jersey. "I was going to teach and coach in high school for a few years and then go coach in college, where the "real" adventure was. She was honored as a Division 3 All-American in 1987 and was picked on the All-New Jersey Conference All-Star team in 1987 and 1988. In 1993 RHS defeated arch rival Ramapo High School 3-2 on the same field and on the same day that the Ridgewood boys won their county championship match, giving the two soccer programs their only county double title in school history. In 2000 the Bergen Record named Tricia to its All Century Team for the 1900's. Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. The 1985 team as second in the Division 3 Nationals, losing to Eastern Connecticut State, 1-0. Head Coach Steve Jacobson and Assistant Coaches Bob Turco, Craig Chiesa and Bob Blakely built a powerhouse that won games over the course of the streak by an average score nearing 11 to 3.During "The Streak", the team scored 470 goals while only allowing 120. That same spring, Kauke earned the Bernard Smith Award for outstanding running performance in the Bergen County Relays, and he went on to place fourth in the 800 at Foot Locker Nationals in North Carolina. In 78 matches played while Rachel was a member of the Maroons ladies soccer squad, the team outscored its opposition by over 400 goals with 444 scored for RHS and 40 scored against. Records starting from 1927 show that Jim's record of 110 wins vs. 54 losses, a winning percentage .671, is the highest in Ridgewood High School history. As a freshman, she was a starter in three sports- basketball, softball, and field hockey. Class of 1946 At Providence, Peter competed in 75 total games at center while tallying 17 goals and 26 assists in his four years of collegiate competition. During his 47 year coaching tenure, Richard has coached 4 varsity teams including boys' soccer (28 years), boys' golf (5 years), girls' basketball (13 years), and boys and girls bowling (17 and counting). Paul Schwartz described the performance in The Record's Friday, June 4, 1999 edition with the words, "[Kauke] burst ahead of favored Eric Motzenbecker of Wall in the 800 meters and raced to an upset victory, one only he and those closest to him thought he could achieve. That team which Rachel led as a co Capt. But, sure to the diversified approach he took in his athletic life, he also is diversified in his later years by bringing hope through prison ministries throughout the state. She lived up to the billing by scoring 40 goals and giving 30 assists helping Duke to a 16 and 4 record. Like all great players, Peter had the gift of seeing plays develop before they would happen. 1984 Girls Tennis She won the 1975 Bergen long jump and high jump titles and the 1976 long, triple, and high jump titles in the group meet. But that was about to change. Further she was recognized by the NJGSCA and the NSCAA as the New Jersey Player of the Year. Whether a student, player, coach or official sought his advice, Jim Bruni laid it all on the line giving always giving his honest assessment. He made the Academic All-Big East Team 3 times and was 1st Team All-Big East his Senior year when he also won the Met Intercollegiate Qualifier. Since then she has taught and coached at Riverdale Country School in the Bronx. She is in the top ten, all-time, for scoring in girls basketball in Bergen County. I loved working with so many amazing female athletes and perhaps having a positive influence on some of their lives. But then bad times set in, and I had to give back 20 percent, so that after three years in the system, I was making less than when I started. A four year starter for the lacrosse team starting in the spring of 2000 Leigh's career seemed to parallel the growth of the women's lacrosse team at the school.As a freshman Leigh contributed 17 goals and 3 assists to a team that had an overall record of 7 wins and 6 losses. In 2003, Virginia claimed the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's lacrosse national championship. 1971 Football, Basketball, Track and Field Golfers had to shoot forty five or better over nine holes during the state qualifier to qualify to play in the state tournament. 1947 Football Her many accomplishments on the tennis courts for RHS and Muhlenberg College, and her continued passion for her chosen sport of tennis make her a very worthy inductee into the Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall Of Fame in the Class of 2014. The Ridgewood boys' soccer team garnered 387 wins, 7 counts titles and 3 state sectional titles. Victory versus St.Benedicts of Newark 35-0 and Hackensack 20-0 took the team to the brink of the Northern New Jersey championship. Fred was named to the BPIL All League 1st team for Hurdles in 1955 and 56 and to the Bergen County 1st team for Hurdles in 1956. Eunae was named to many individual honors including first team all state twice and went on to play golf for four years at Georgetown University. 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. Olympian Alan Webb had the eighth-best time. In basketball he was an outstanding "2" guard with a picture perfect and a deadly jump shot, a great man to man defender and one of the best foul shooters in North Jersey. 1990 NJ State Soccer Coaches Association 1st Team All State. A great player, a great leader, a great teacher, and a great coach, Dennis Sullivan rightfully takes his place alongside the other members of the Ridgewood High School Hall of Fame as one of the best all-around athletes to ever compete for the Maroons. His 1975 4-x-880 team also held a national mark. Her all around skill is the most telling aspect to her athleticism, as evidenced by her yearly results. 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. All the while she kept a smile and treated everyone with dignity and often times grace under fire! His discipline and positioning were highly valued and other players on the team thrived off of his work ethic. He was the NNJIL Group 4 champion for the outdoor long jump in 1989. the 1913 football team and the 1990-91-92 boys lacrosse teams were inducted into the sixth Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall of Fame class on Saturday at The Brick House before an audience of 165 people . Erica won the race, her friend finished 2nd and everyone was shocked to see that Toshi did indeed follow them and finished 3rd, beating hundreds of high school and college female runners. John also jumped over 21' in the long jump showing his versatility. The team's prized "Shield" recognizing the team's championship can still be seen outside Ridgewood High School's main gymnasium today. Monro capped his stellar sports career at RHS by receiving the Ridgewood High School Trophy for excellence in athletics, established in 1914 and awarded annually to the member of the graduating class who compiles the best record in various sports. The 6-foot-5,190- pounder capped his scholastic career by leading the Maroons to a 22-4 record and the Group 4, Section 1 state semifinals and by leading the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League (NNJIL) in scoring with 626 points, a 24-point average. In his senior year Tom served as Co Capt of the 6-2 Maroon football team and had the then rarity of earning 3 varsity letters in the sport at a time when most sophomores in a 3 year high school did not see varsity competition until their junior season. These alumni have exhibited outstanding leadership, character and service to their community and country. He signed a professional baseball contract with the Dodgers in 1942 and was assigned to play Double A ball in Mobile, Alabama, where he pitched for two seasons. Mark Romeo was a 2001 Bergen County champion after having placed second his junior year and third his sophomore year. Bennett was named Bergen County Boys Soccer Coach of the Century by The Record in 2000. Tornatore's individual accomplishments helped lead Ridgewood to great heights as a team. He helped lead his 1971 Maroons track team to a Co NNJIL Championship and a state group 4 sectional title. Members of the Ridgewood High School Hall of Fame are those that have made a lasting impact on the school's sports program as either student players, coaches, or supporters. O'Connor then moved on to coaching men's soccer in college, serving as an assistant coach at the University of Delaware for three years. Dunne attended two colleges. Daughter Kimberly was born in 1973 and son Clayton was born in 1975.Tom eventually moved his practice twice and finished his career practicing in Sunnyvale California. She then transferred to the University of Notre Dame where they only offered club track and field because there was no intercollegiate program for women at 1992 Lacrosse, Football His senior year at Princeton, Sullivan was elected captain of the swim team. Ridgewood H.S. In March of 1969 while under heavy enemy fire (Tom describes it as "All hell broke loose") an enemy mortar round landed very close to him. During his time at Brown the Bears won the Ivy League Championship in both 1994 and 1995 and advanced to the NCAA Semi-Finals in '94 and the NCAA Quarter-Finals in'95. Kandie and Jean lead with an attitude of excellence that still permeates Ridgewood's distance program. Special Contributors He earned his law degree from Seton Hall Law School in 1990 and is an attorney at law at the firm of Kopleton and Tambi in Wayne. Her ability to read the match and to apply herself on both sides of the ball made her a tremendous all around soccer player .She is the kind of soccer player coaches would love to have at every position, because she understood what had to be done at every position on the field while she was engaged in the competition. Student Enrollment, Registration, Calendars. Teaming with Mary Ellen on the relays, Patti had a fabulous series of accomplishments: school record in the javelin relay, a national record in the indoors distance medley, finalist in the Penn Relays 4 x 800, Bergen County records in the sprint medley, 4 x 800, distance medley and 4 x 1-mile relays. Eric also played football at Ridgewood, and he played it very well. 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. The Ridgewood High School girl's tennis program has a long and storied history of both individuals and teams leaving their marks in the RHS record books. He retired from playing professional baseball in 1948. On many occasions we would discuss the situation and decide together what was required of her play that day. As a young child, Julia was introduced to many sports, but golf was the one that Julia says she picked up on quickly.. When he graduated, the 6-foot-2, 160 pound Campbell held every individual scoring record at Ridgewood High School as well as four league standards and one county mark. Today John practices chiropractic medicine in Jersey City and also works as a consultant and lecturer for the insurance industry. Joe Pedone joins other Ridgewood High School Basketball greats: Pete Campbell, Doug Cook, Tom Hopper, Tim Mullen, and Jim Dee. In 2005 Dave Vanderbush organized the first girls golf team at Ridgewood. Her father was a teaching pro and he served as her coach all throughout her golf career. She led Dartmouth's non-scholarship squad to two fourth-place finishes in the NCAA nationals. Athletic Hall of Fame: Thirteen new inductees feted OCTOBER 31, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014, 12:31 AM . Tim is also the school record holder for most points in a game, 43. From there it was back to Fort Dix in New Jersey for recuperation.Tom and his wife Addie then lived with his parents in Ridgewood until he was healthy enough to resume active duty. Growing up in Milford, Conn. in a time before Title IX, Coach Paul Played semiprofessional softball for the Raybestos Braketts for five years and went on to Springfield College where she was a member of the intercollegiate field hockey and basketball teams. It was the day of the set shot and new to New Jersey hoops. They qualified for 24 of the 25 Bergen Meet of Champions races and finished in the top four the last 19 times they qualified, winning in 1978, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1995 and 1996. Her brother Eric also was a Ridgewood High track athlete. A great player with great accomplishments both in the classroom and on the court she rightfully takes her place amongst the best student athletes in the history of Ridgewood High School in the Ridgewood High School Hall of Fame Class of 2012. He is first on the school's all-time list for most varsity wins as a player (55) and most career assists (41) in boys soccer. His son Peter was coming up and Roger didn't think the boy needed his father for a coach. Most importantly her job required that she make immediate decisions in regard to the daily functioning of the athletic department in the absence of the athletic director. Competing during the indoor season, he won the Dartmouth Invitational long jump in 1989, the same year he finished in fourth place in the same event in the National Scholastic Indoor Track and Field Championships. He and his wife Kelli, a publicist for CBS News, are the parents of two young sons, Scottie and Alex, and live in Scarsdale, NY. Mike Culver, a 2002 graduate, is one of the top lacrosse players in the history ofRidgewood High School. She handed off a lead and the rest of the team ran equally well and Ridgewood established a new National High School Record. A soccer standout for much of his youth and early high school athletic careers, Kauke wound up winning dozens of league, county and state-sectional titles in track, setting records in the 400-, 800- and 1600-meter runs and in the relays. 1983 Cross Country Track Tim went on to star for the University of Virginia men's basketball team (pictured him with Michael Jordan) and was captain of the Cavaliers his senior season of 1984-85. Here are key facts and figures about Ile-de-France: Population: 13 million. Zabielski took two quick dribbles and fired a 50 foot pass to a streaking Suzanne Patterson for the winning lay-up as the buzzer sounded and the girls stormed the floor to celebrate the only Girls Basketball Group IV State Championship in school history. That is the total score which our record breaking football squad has rolled up in nine games already played. He was the Outdoor Eastern States champion in 1988 and the Eastern States Champion in 1989 with a record-setting triple jump that still endures. He transferred to Stetson University in Deland, Fla., where he became the starting quarterback. An exceptional blocker and feared tackler Tom Dusel, at 195 pounds, was a coach's dream as a two-way player which was the norm for outstanding players of that era. After leading the team to the aforementioned 30-4 record and championships,Zabielski was acknowledged as the Bergen Record "Athlete of the Week," a berth in both the Bergen-Passaic and New Jersey North-South All-Star games as well as the MVP of the Group IV State Championship Tournament. With 1021 wins later at Ridgewood High School, that simple response has certainly proven to be prophetic. Truly admirable! While at Fair Lawn he remembers Coach Bruni as a "brilliant" coach. He is the only coach to have more than one season with a better than .800 winning percentage. When she returned home from Mt Ranier so dejected, her daughter, Erica, suggested she try jogging to give her a base of fitness. "That ended up slowing down my swimming career," he said. Julia states that golf was a big part of her decision to go to LIU. While his basketball abilities were just average, he excelled in baseball. Because of the uniqueness of his accomplishments in three sports and the demands for training and organization that that kind of involvement in sport demands, today's athletes and students can look to John's example of a life well lived through dedication to an ideal of excellence in multiple facets of his life. How can you predict that when Brown retired in the spring of 2015 he would be generally considered one of the greatest coaches of any sport in Bergen County and New Jersey history with records unlikely to ever be approached, no less broken. Batterson, the former girls volleyball coach at RHS, is a 2008 Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall of Fame inductee. The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. His talent, work ethic and personality would lead him to be the best running back in the county." While in high school, Sullivan was a four-year captain (1991-95) of the Ridgewood YMCA Breaker swim team. Coach Batterson's final record as a coach stands at 199-71, but well beyond the wins and losses over the years is the incredible education each of her players received about being outstanding citizens of the world, whether that included volleyball or not. Julia states when you are competing and traveling for tournaments each weekend, your teammates become family. 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. finished ranked #8 in the state and held the #17 ranking nationally during the season. Ridgewood had a trio of great 880 girls (Jane Green, Cindy Hansen, and Nancy Reed) and needed a 4th for the relay. Her sports were Field Hockey, Volleyball, Basketball, Softball and Track. The soft-spoken (most of the time) Coyle ran track at Mount St. Michael's High School in the Bronx and at Iona before coming to Ridgewood to teach English. In the summer of 1947, Dunne and fellow RHS Hall of Fame member Gene Links (Class of 2004), played outfield for Uncle Sam's Shoes, the leading semi-pro baseball team in North Jersey. Named to The Record's Bergen County All-Century Girls Soccer Team as a Midfielder, Wendy Hartwig, a 1994 graduate, is the leading goal scorer in the history of Ridgewood High School soccer, boys and girls programs, with 110 goals to go along with 49 assists over a four-year varsity career playing for head coach Jeff Yearing.. As a freshman in the 1990 season, Wendy made Second Team All . He alternated between quarterback and left halfback, played middle linebacker and returned and kicked punts. The entire team exploded with excitement at the accomplishment of one of their relays. Coach Batterson always demanded the best in play, attitude and sportsmanship from her players. Competing for a high school known for athletic excellence and in an era of multi-sport athletes, John Marshall's accomplishments on the gridiron, hardwood and field events for Ridgewood High School makes him a worthy inductee into the Ridgewood H.S. A four-year varsity starter, she is Ridgewood High School's all-time leading scorer in basketball, both boys and girls, with 1,967 points. One of Ridgewood High School's all-time running standouts, Jenna Rogers stills holds Maroon and Bergen County records. The 1990's saw some of the best girls' basketball in Bergen County history and Ridgewood High School was one of the premier programs of that era. Initially joining the boys team, Julia said playing competitive golf against the boys was a great experience that sharpened her competitive drive and proved to her how strong her game had become and how strong it could be. She could see the game and could think ahead in regard to the ball movement .This allowed Leigh to put herself in the most advantageous positions offensively or defensively making her one of the most efficient and dangerous players of the field match after match! From June 1998 until February 2001, she was the production coordinator for ABC News Nightline with Ted Kopel.Starting in September 2001 Rachel began a professional career as a Social Studies teacher and Digital Media Coordinator at Hoboken High School in Hoboken New Jersey. He was inducted into the TCNJ Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986 for his accomplishments in football, track and golf. For a woman to even come out for a sport in 1973 was a challenge over peer group influence. She is also tied for third place in school history for game-winning assists in a season, three in 1996. She pitched Trenton State to the national championship in 1987, hurling two of the four games in the championship series and defeating Eastern Connecticut twice. Donald Taylor is one of the special student athletes that walked the halls of RHS. He was awarded the Outstanding Senior Athlete award in 1977 and also was recipient of the Stroker Award presented by the Stroker Family and the Ridgewood Junior Football Association.
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