Lockhart, who became a doctor, shared quarterback duties on the 1972 squad that lost only to Hackensack in eight outings, 14-13, and captured the school's first NNJIL title. It was sweet revenge as Haddonfield had defeated Ridgewood by 3 strokes for the championship in 2007. His attention to detail and proper form allowed him to excel at three very different sports, and set records that stood for a very long time. His first decade at Ridgewood saw Brown coaching all three seasons. As he learned and became confident employing Coach Gardners system, he began logging many minuets as a penalty killer. From 1991 to 1994 The Ridgewood Teams that Tricia was a part of never finished out of the top 10 rankings for the state of New Jersey and made it up to the NSCAA national ranking of #7 in 1993 while also achieving NSCAA national rankings of #17 in 92 and #13 in 94.In 1993 the team finished as the #1 team in Bergen county. Everyone who knows Coach Stroker, understands he is a team first guy and he speaks very highly of Joes work ethic, his quiet leadership, and steady team play. He is buried in 12 Park, Plot E1/2 1475, Grave 1 in Valleau Cemetery in Ridgewood. Strong in stature and character, no one was going to beat Rachel physically nor would they be able to out think or finesse her. Graduating from Springfield College in 1970 with a BS in Health and Physical Education "Cum Laude" and Ohio State University in 1972 with an MA in Physical Education and Athletic Administration, Jeff took a teaching position in the Millburn N.J. Public Schools. 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." When Kandie graduated in 1975 there was a dawning of girl's high school sports in North Jersey, Kandie had helped The Ridgewood Girls establish a national record and had a state championship medal in her pocket and Ridgewood had a recognized track and field program. Those are the sentiments, Phillips wrote, of Ridgewood High School sports followers about Amy Lyons, the senior shortstop who excelled at bat and in the field as the Maroon softball team won the state title Saturday. When Richard Bennett applied for the boys soccer coach position, he was asked by the Athletic Director Dick Flectner if he thought he could win. Ridgewood recorded an outstanding 28-3-1 league record during that time. In 1955 He and his team mates set a sprint medley record of 3:46.4 in the Twin Boro Relays and in 55 and 56 Larry won the BPIL league meet in the 880 ( mile) setting the meet record time of 2.002.6 in 1956.In 56 Larry and his team mates also set a mile relay record time for the BPIL meet, recording a time of 3:35.2.Larry also took a 2nd in the league meet high jump in 56 and with his mates that spring took a 1st in the Mile Relay at the Penn Relays. She also confirmed previously made schedules and notified all parties of changes in a timely manner. He served 38 months in the Navy, with stints on Guam and in French Morocco, and then starred in baseball and soccer at Springfield College. He was All-Ivy three years at Princeton University, leading the Ivy League in scoring one season, ranking second the other two. of Delaware bound Erika Bauer. GIRL'S BASKETBALL 1976-89, 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. His sports sections received a number of awards in the New Jersey State Press Association contests, and, in 1969, his Sports Sidelights column was selected number one in New Jersey for daily and weekly newspapers. Spending most of her playing time as a central midfielder and part time forward, Rachel in her senior season (after an injury to a key team member half way through the season) volunteered to move to central defense to help shore up the RHS back line. Class of 1994 Dunne attended two colleges. She trained easily up to the first meet making no impression on teammates, coaches, or herself. He owned Perdue's Sport Shop in Ridgewood for a number of years. Graduating in 1974 Tom bought a practice in San Jose and their family made Saratoga California home for 25 years. He was named the Honorary High School Girls Referee at the Penn Relays in 2005 and was named the Mike Byrnes National Coach of the Year by the National Scholastic Sports Foundation in 2010. He left Ridgewood and took his teaching and coaching skills to Oregon where he is a teacher and coach at the Oregon Episcopal School. All true statements ,but we now honor Maureen's outstanding accomplishments for RHS athletics by putting her name up along the main gymnasium wall with all the other inductees to the Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall of Fame making her one of the all time Maroon and White greats. For more than 40 years Jacob Brown was the leader of the gang and what a gang it was. The Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall Of Fame proudly welcomes Peter McGinley to the 2022 induction class for his accomplishments in boy's ice hockey. Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. Upon returning from the service Roger also returned to Trenton State to continue his education and varsity athletic career playing both football and baseball again. . He represented the United States at the World Half Marathon Championships twice and the World Cross-Country Championships once. As a freshman, she placed second in the Bergen County Cross-Country Championships and in the spring won the county title in the mile, setting a new Ridgewood record in the process. Peter, a class of 2012 graduate, was a standout for the two times Gold Cup Champion Maroons. In 1969 in its first foray into rugged Hudson County football, Ridgewood snipped North Bergen's 21-game skein. The fact that his records still stand today, over 25 years since they were set, is what makes Paul Tornatore such a worthy inductee into the Ridgewood H.S. Mary Ellen was the Group 4 state champion in the 800 meters her senior year and placed in the top five in the national prep meet in Portland, Ore. In addition to two varsity football seasons, he played baseball three years and basketball two years. He was first-team All-Suburban, second team All-County and a two-time All-NNJIL pick (first team as a senior). Batterson, the former girls volleyball coach at RHS, is a 2008 Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall of Fame inductee. Jones has covered sports on a full-time basis for The Ridgewood News since 1960, serving as sports editor from 1970 to Dec. 31, 2000, when he ended his full-time work at the newspaper. He had 15 years of coaching experience under his belt when he was hired in 1943 to coach baseball at Ridgewood. He would teach, literally, a step by step progression. 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. The team has received many National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) national rankings and has received the NSCAA National Team Academic Award nineteen times under Coach Yearing. One of Monro's more memorable games came against Pompton Lakes. Sullivan played lacrosse in the "Glory Days" of the Ridgewood Lax Program. John willingly tells of his early childhood days, running with a group of boys whom he describes as mostly "ending up in jail" after which,he moved to Ridgewood with his Dad at age 12. As a fullback on the gridiron for head coach Jack Broomall, he was the Maroons' leading rusher, playing alongside halfbacks Gus Anton, George Bolding, Stew Moore and Eddie Walsh and quarterback Charlie Brown, while running behind a line that featured standout Walt Livingston. 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. In her senior year, Patti was named First Team All League, First Team All Bergen County and Second Team All State. After the first game of the 1983 season, a victory, the Ridgewood players filed back to the dugout and said only twenty eight more to go according to Kim Norris in her article about Ridgewood High School Girls Softball Team incredible 1983 softball season. Each of these men knew they had an indispensable resource with Maureen that allowed for them to function in as sane a manner that a person in that position could possibly expect. She participated in USVBA Nationals, receiving an All-American Rookie Award. Paul was named Bergen County Softball Coach of the Year that season and would be named Coach of the Year three more times during her 32-year softball career (1974-78, 1980-2006). O'Connor also played baseball and was a three-year varsity letter winner for head coach Jack Van Yperen and assistant coach Jeff Yearing. Hall of Fame. He made second team All-County in the 400 relay and honorable mention All-County in the 100 butterfly. It is a ranking he earned with outstanding anchor legs for the Maroon mile relay team and by trouncing the best 440 opposition in Bergen and Passaic counties. Class of 1950 The qualities that made her a great teammate at Ridgewood High School now inform her life as a career professional, wife, and mother. Eunae recalls it was such an exciting time for us, especially as Julia (Rappa), our other teammates and I started to look forward to team practices, matches and tournaments. She goes on to say she will always remember the special bond we had as teammates. Bond they did and brought RHS girls golf right to the top of the list of girls golf programs in the state. Class of 1994 Paul became a pioneer in the Bergen County sports scene and a strong advocate for equal opportunity for women in sports. After a long hiatus from swimming, Sullivan has taken it back up and completed the 4.4-mile Chesapeake Bay Swim this summer and plans to do similar races as well as triathlons. Over the next 25 months, the team would dominate the entire state, winning two league championships, two state championships and setting the record for most consecutive wins in the history of New Jersey lacrosse with a run of 44 victories in a row thereby creating what will ever be referred to in Ridgewood High School lacrosse history as the "The Streak of 44". A brilliant math mind, Pete graduated from Harvard Business School and worked first at Price Waterhouse, then as comptroller at First Boston. It is no coincidence that those three seasons correspond with Eric Benedicts time competing for the Maroons.Eric was a 4-year letter winner for Ridgewood in lacrosse and part of the Streak of 44 teams which established the Tradition of Excellence for Ridgewood Lacrosse and were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2014. The 1986 squad boasted a career best 23-3 record for coach Batterson. Alex Molnar, class of 1963; Pamela Kristan, class of 1964; and Mary-Rita (Patricelli) Moore, class of 1979; will be recognized. Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. In 1989 the tide turned. Carin taught kindergarten at West Point Elementary School for 18 years. In 1991, Eric was again 1st Team All-State, All-American, the NJ Co-Player of the Year and finished his high school career playing in the United States National All-Star game. It has been a showcase for many players who go on to professional careers in the sport. They made the states every year that he coached. He touched and changed hundreds of student's lives with his wisdom and insight in what may be considered a short, but exceptionally bright career at RHS. We believed in ourselves and each other. 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. But that was about to change. By the end of the indoor season, he was fourth in the Eastern States Championships, setting a New Jersey sophomore class record. At the conclusion of his senior season and his career with Virginia, he was honored with the UVA Team Leadership Award as well as All-ACC, Academic All-America, first team All-America and the NCAA National Defenseman of the Year awards. The early years of girls track weren't always greeted sympathetically by entrenched boys coaches as Brown discovered one day at Montclair. Both years, the team made the Group 4 state finals. Also an Academic All American that season Leigh was selected for the first time to the US Lacrosse Associations U19 24 player training camp. At the completion of the 2017 season, Coach Yearing has been on the men's and women's varsity soccer field at Ridgewood High School for a total of 43 seasons (31 years as head girls varsity coach at RHS).In total he has coached in 891 varsity soccer matches as an asst. 1995 Soccer Patti joined the Ridgewood cross-country program her sophomore year when she arrived at the high school. Jones is a native of Bergen County, Montvale and Park Ridge High School. After high school, Grundy had tryouts with the New York Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants. AD 1945-1966, Baseball 1938-42 - 1946-56 Recognition among his peers came quickly to Tom. dash his Junior year and NNJIL Championships in the 100 and 220 yd. DeRochi remained in the Glen Rock school system until 1936, when he moved on to Ridgewood. The four companies in Tom's battalion were spread out over a large area of operations and were seeing significant enemy contact. Lyons works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is based at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. On July 21, 2009, she was named assistant director of the FBI Inspection Division by Director Robert S. Mueller, III. A four-year varsity letter winner in both indoor and outdoor track and field and co-captain of the squads his senior year, he was Big East champion in the indoor triple jump (1990), Big East outdoor triple jump champ (1991 and 1993), and IC4A Champion in the outdoor triple jump (1992). He also gave the Maroons a solid one-two punch in the 220 sprint while also competing in the Mile Relay, High Jump, Running Broad Jump(Long Jump), 440 and 100. 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. There was a state tournament that year for girls golf sponsored by the NJSIAA. In 1994 Tricia played out of the shadow of some of her former and now "RHS Hall of Fame" team mates Wendy Hartwig and Aimee McGuire, and really amazed the New Jersey soccer world with her ambition and desire to play, lead and achieve. 1971 Football, Basketball, Track and Field He was awarded the RHS Award for Excellence in Athletics in 1949 and also the 18th annual High Y Award. Maureen's responsibilities included scheduling games, officials and transportation. He was elected Captain his senior year despite missing much of his junior year with an injury. Nick Capasso has also been heavily involved over the years with the Ridgewood Baseball Association as a Trustee, and as a Coach. John also jumped over 21' in the long jump showing his versatility. For three consecutive years (1992, 1993 and 1994), she made first team All-County, first team All- Area North Jersey in the Herald and News and first team All- Suburban in The Ridgewood News. In addition, he was named the All-Suburban Boys Soccer Sophomore of the Year by The Ridgewood News. She will forever be remembered as an inspiration to those of us who were lucky enough to know her. In 1960 and 61 he was a member of two of the fastest sprint relay teams on Yale record. Eunae recounts how she always considered golf a lonely sport spending many hours on the range and golf course, alone, perfecting her game. A year later in 1943 at the age of 37, despite having a young wife and two growing boys at home, DeRochi answered his country's call and joined the Navy as a lieutenant. Winning many individual honors through her interscholastic days, Julia went on to play golf for four years at Long Island University Brooklyn. His relay teams in the indoor 4 x 800 and distance medley both hold Princeton records. Upon transferring to Rutgers she continued her collegiate athletic career concentrating on her number one game basketball, as a member of the Scarlet Knights varsity squad her junior and senior years 1976-78.Nancy played for the first full time female collegiate basketball coach in the country ,Theresa Grentz, an All American herself from Immaculata.While at Rutgers, Nancy garnered the nickname "Century Hogan" having scored the one hundredth point all five times the Rutgers Women's basketball team broke the century mark during her two varsity seasons there. Her Bergen County record in the 1600 meters still stands. Her sophomore year Michele jumped up to the very competitive First Singles slot and after competing against the very best singles players in the County and leading Ridgewood to an undefeated season in league play, she was voted Second Team All-Bergen County. Renee DuFlon (Class of 1975) made her mark in Ridgewood High School athletics in volleyball and track and field. Donald Taylor is one of the special student athletes that walked the halls of RHS. dash in the Mid-Atlantic Championships. At the end of his career, Mark held the school records for most wins in a season (34) and a career (108), most pins (70) in a career and best winning percentage for a season (94%) and a career (87%). Further she was recognized by the NJGSCA and the NSCAA as the New Jersey Player of the Year. He was a great student athlete and a great leader for the Maroons, period. finished ranked #8 in the state and held the #17 ranking nationally during the season. Her 1600-meter personal record of 5:04.28 is still on the Ridgewood All-Time list. The latter time broke the previous Bergen County record that had stood for 24 years, and the mark still endures today. Bringing the sport into the elementary schools in the early 1960s, coach Napier found the boys gymnastics club in 1967 at RHS. The rest of the starting lineup included Peter Westerhoff at Left Tackle, James Hubbard at Left Guard, Stanley Todd Centre,Edgar Knowlton Right Guard, June Paul Right Tackle, Benjamin Sloat Right End and Lovett Keyser Right Halfback. Toshi went on to train seriously and exploded onto the running scene.