Head Football Coach 1959-1975
The team RHS alumni led by Jeff Yearing RHS 1966, Tom Thurston & Sam Cermack, RHS 1977 and Ridgewood High school Athletic Director Walt Hampson, chose the first group of honorees to the RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame. In recognition of her stellar season, she was once again selected for the First Team All-Bergen County tennis team at First Singles making her one of the few athletes in Bergen County history to be selected for the All-County Team four consecutive years. While at Ridgewood High School Tom was a rare four year starter and four year Varsity letter winner for the Maroon "Duffers", captaining the team in both the 1990 and 1991 seasons. George Monro went on to have a stellar football career at Franklin and Marshall College and was inducted into the F&M sports hall of fame in 2001. Acknowledged as one of the greatest two-way football players in the school's history, he was acknowledged as a first-team All-Decade linebacker for the 1970s by The Record and was a two-time first-team linebacker on the All-County, All-Suburban and All-NNJIL all-star teams. One friend describes John as "a quiet guy who needs to be recognized". DuFlon was cochampion with 22 points in the state-sectional championships, breaking a school record in the shot put with a throw of 31 feet, one and- a-half inches. The NJSIAA recognized girls golf as an individual sport from boys golf in 2004. Chris DuFlocq still sets the standard by which I judge all others, and none have ever surpassed the complete talent that he possessed in so many different areas the position demands." Her vision made our team better by making all the other players around her better! John Marshall was a true three sport athlete. 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. In volleyball, DuFlon's teams her junior and senior years were ranked number one by the NNJIL, and she was voted first team by all of the coaches and officials in the league. The purpose of this commemorative body is to unite the schools athletic history with the functions and goals of the present day school district.The Hall Of Fame will attempt to promote sportsmanship and citizenship, as well as athletic and academic accomplishment, through the recognition and selection of deserving individuals and teams into the Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall Of Fame. Patti was a multi-sport athlete, competing in Tennis and Bowling, but it was on the Softball field where she stood out. He never handled a diamond squad, but his football, basketball and golf teams helped fill the school trophy cases. Her brother Eric also was a Ridgewood High track athlete. His athletic skills attracted college recruiters for football and the New York Giants for baseball. Hubie Brown coached football, basketball and baseball at Fair Lawn High School. The true three sport athletes seem fewer and fewer today. Batterson, the former girls volleyball coach at RHS, is a 2008 Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall of Fame inductee. 1990 set single season scoring record for goals with 38. Two of his all-county honors were for his roles on both indoor and outdoor 4x400 meter relays, the outdoor race setting a then Bergen County record in 1988. In November 1968 Tom was assigned to the 1st division in Vietnam as an artillery liaison officer to an infantry battalion. During the 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979 seasons, the girls gymnastics team compiled undefeated dual meet campaigns with a combined 43-0 record. Amy Lyons, a 1979 graduate, is one of the outstanding softball players in the history of Ridgewood High School, and the shortstop capped her four-year varsity career by playing an instrumental role in the Maroons winning the Group 4 state championship her senior year. O'Connor was also captain of the Wyckoff Torpedoes U19 team that won the New Jersey State Cup in 1994. "So many memories," Roger Sweeney said mentally recapping his 17- year career (1959 to 1975) as a winning football coach, the hand-picked successor to the late legendary Frank Mozeleski. Dunne was named All-Suburban inThe Ridgewood News, All-County in the Bergen Evening Record and All-State Group 3 at the quarterback position.
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