It’s unknown if the stat-happy wiz kids in baseball’s new wave front offices have a metric for the rate scouts show up to high school baseball fields in April and May, but if the ball continues to jump off...
On a recent afternoon at Winslow Township High School’s newly updated track, girls head coach Shawnnika Brown waited until one of her star athletes was in the middle of an interview before she delivered the news.
“I want to tell...
Along the land that’s home to Washington Township High School’s tennis courts is a small set of bleachers that rests under a permanent canopy. It’s a place for high school players to watch while cooling off from the sun.
The...
Will Mercado, Bryce Reece, Rob Pensabene and Matt Soutar will lead a talented Lenape team aiming for its first-ever state title in 2019.
Sam Tropiano and Rob Christ have been around long enough to know that it’s unwise to put too much emphasis on high school baseball’s opening day.
Combined, the two South Jersey coaching veterans have more than 1,000 career wins in...
If you’re smart, you would not dare mention or try to explain the term “sophomore slump” to Deptford High School 10th-grader Brianna Stocklin. Unless, perhaps, you are her coach, and you’re looking for that last bit of motivational material...
There’s a certain pageantry to the first game of a baseball season.
Whether it’s the extra people in the bleachers, or the patriotic bunting hung with care, or the brand new, clean uniforms sparkling under the spring sun, Opening...
When you’re an eighth-grader considering how close you are to joining one of the elite high school programs in the area – Eastern field hockey, Moorestown girls lacrosse, Gloucester Catholic baseball – you’re aware of the expectations before you...
In the past few years, seven schools have added teams, allowing South Jersey to form its own conference for the first time in 2019.
Wherever Palmyra High School senior Sam Aviles winds up in September, he’s going to have a new coach who will feel like a kid on Christmas morning.
Aviles is among the many gifted prep athletes in New Jersey. But...