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East Rutherford NJ, Ridgewood emerged victorious Friday night at MetLife Stadium over Union in a 41-37 stunner. In one of the most exciting games of the year, the Maroons outlasted five different lead changes in a wild finish scoring 22 points in the fourth quarter and rallied back from a 12-point deficit at the half.
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Ridgewood NJ, Supervisor of Athletics Keith Cook reported on the “great year” that the RHS athletic program had in 2018-2019 and the achievement of winning the ShopRite Cup, which named RHS the top athletic program out of 84 schools in its group category. The athletic program also received the Sportsmanship Award for achieving an entire school year without a single disqualification. RHS has 28 sports and 500 student-athletes.
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Ridgewood NJ, It seems like this is a DEVELOPING STORY… there is a 2nd Video Installment analyzing Ridgewood, NJ REC Baseball program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swvQNREIOLY
All the documentation from the https://www.daddyBall.Org
It’s nice to see a healthy and productive conversation developing here. Check out the 2nd VIDEO which looks specifically at Ridgewood, NJ Recreational Baseball. There’s more to come, I assure you… This is not going to get buried.
Sofia Lee, Sara Wong, Serena Corcoran, Olivia Kim, Eva Galbraith, Jasmine Parpel, Lilan Reidel, Caroline Villemoes, Victoria Hoy
Take third place in the Womens HS JV 8+. Photo by Mark Reidel
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew participated in a local event this past weekend at the 2019 Head of the Passaic Regatta led by Head Coach Boris Roque-Alvarez and veteran coach Bob O’Connor. Teams from the Northern New Jersey area took to the water with Ridgewood Crew competing with 17 entries. What makes 2019’s HOPR different from other years? This year The Passaic River Rowing Association has a new dock at their venue. The dock measures in at an impressive 240 feet in length with two piers and accompanying gangways. At that length, PRRA can accommodate up to four 8+’s and many more boats for this year’s race. While the PRRA membership has been enjoying the new update to their facility, they were extremely excited to share it with the community for the Head of the Passaic Regatta.
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Ridgewood NJ, Another bombshell revealed at a BOE meeting?
During the the Public comment from 2 parents at tonight’s BOE meeting allege that an RHS coach routinely subjected athletes to emotional and mental abuse. Complaints were filed with the BOE and no response has been received to date according to the complainants.
The Board quickly shut down the comments ,claiming they cant speak about personnel issues during open meetings.
Residents claimed the athletes who complained waited for the season to be over before they issued complaints for fear of retaliation and have thus far, been ignored. Dr. Fishbien did not look happy with the allegations going public.
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood High School accepts the Shoprite Cup for the best Group IV athletic program in NJ 2018-2019.
ShopRite Cup Winners , Wakefern Corporation awards points to schools for 1-winning group championships and 2-for being disqualification-free all year in all NJSIAA sports. At the end of the year, the six top earning schools (four public schools and two non-publics) are awarded the prestigious Shop-Rite Cup.
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Ridgewood NJ, Jackie Wolak of Ridgewood named National Lacrosse player of the year. The Notre Dame-bound senior scored 79 goals to go with 42 assists, 135 draw controls, 50 caused turnovers and 106 ground balls. She finished her career, which included two seasons at Saddle River Day , with 492 points and as the New Jersey Player of the Year.
Ridgewood finished ranked No. 6 in the Mid-Atlantic region and No. 11 nationally, according to the Nike/US Lacrosse rankings.
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Nashport Oh, Ridgewood Crew has just returned from the SRAA National Championship Regatta hosted by the Scholastic Rowing Association of America on Dillon Lake in Nashport, Ohio. Ridgewood Crew entered 8 events out of a total of 496 entries from 156 clubs.
The primary function of the SRAA® is to run the Scholastic Championship Regatta each May, determining the North American Champions. High school athletics does not allow sporting events to be held which decide national champions. This regatta, nevertheless, is informally recognized by the rowing community as a national championship.
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Reader says , “How about putting in more portable toilets. Because one is not enough. And that’s only cleaned once a week always disgusting. Anyways feel free and full of poop. That one needs to be cleaned at least three times a week. I’d rather go to the bathroom in the parking lot. As a Taxpayer and field user. I don’t know who is in charge of parks and recreation but they don’t see this. Open up your eyes.”
Another reader stresses , “making sure the fields are kept up whether it is have her employees pick up bottles or clean the Porto potties ”
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Ridgewood NJ, The Schedler Ad Hoc Committee offered a compromise plan to install one multi-use sports field, a walking trail, bathrooms and 44 parking spaces on the property. It has been said the sports field will be used primarily for “kickball”.
But several readers wanted to know what kickball was , and voiced suprise kids still play it.
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Ridgewood NJ, For the third week in a row, the Ridgewood Crew athletes took to the water, this time for the final event in the pre-season series. Sunday, April 14, 2019, on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, 85 rowing clubs gathered to compete in the 5th Manny Flick. Ridgewood had 15 boats race in 13 events. Award Winning Results included…
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Maroons got the better of a fumble exchange in the fourth quarter to overcome a 13-10 deficit and pull out a 24-13 win over Passaic Tech. The win was the 270th win for Ridgewood coach Chuck Johnson’s 41-year career (235th at Ridgewood) and the Maroons improved their record to 2-1 on the season and also picked up their first division win after playing two independent games. eer Wins as Ridgewood will look to get a third straight win next Friday when they head to Bauerle Field in Paterson to take on Eastside.
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Ridgewood NJ, longtime RHS girls lacrosse coach Karla Mixon, has resigned leaving Ridgewood’s top girls lacrosse program. She stepped down after 18 seasons at Ridgewood. Mixon took over the varsity squad in 2001 leading to a 337-59 career record, Mixon sent dozens of players to the Division I level and produced several All-Americans. Under Mixon the Maroons won six state championships under Mixon and won all 14 Bergen County titles since the event began.
Mixon also led her team to a pair of wins in the Tournament of Champions in 2010 and 2011 and this past June, the Maroons reached the Tournament of Champions final and ended the year ranked No. 21 by US Lacrosse Magazine. Mixon leaves Ridgewood as the Number 1-ranked team with seven returning starters and at least nine college-bound players.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood High School soccer programs are hosting a great event – Super Super Saturday. On Saturday, September 15th all six RHS soccer teams play continuous games from 11 am to 9 pm. SSS will be holding a 50/50 raffle. One lucky winner will take home half of the proceeds. The remaining portion will be used to support both the girls and boys soccer programs. In addition, our soccer programs have selected two charities which will benefit from SSS – Michael Feeney’s BEST DAY EVER and The John Theurer Cancer Center at HUMC (Multiple Myeloma program).
Tickets are $10 each. The winner does not need to be present to win.
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Ridgewood NJ,Ridgewood Football Coach Chuck Johnson,is set to start his 35th season , looking to improve on last years 8-3 record , with a loss in North 1 Group 5 semifinals and an overall team ranking # 9.
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