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Nicole Aarts has been a Hoboken resident her entire life and has been a world class athlete, although she’s toiled in virtual obscurity. “When I was younger, I tried playing soccer and it didn’t work,” Aarts said. “But my dad Erik was a swimmer at RPI and I thought that maybe I could be a …

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In 2006, Marquis Roberts was just a fledgling football player, a 9-year-old member of the Jersey City PAL grid program, still learning how to play the game properly, when he made his declaration of where he wanted to play high school football some five years later. “I picked up a newspaper and I saw a …

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For more than a decade, the losses simply continued to mount for the Snyder High School football team, like it was simply supposed to happen. The Tigers would line up on the field each week and get their collective heads handed to them. Week after excruciating week, the losses piled up like a stack of …

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The Secaucus girls’ cross country team had a few harried days prior to the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2 Group I meet last week at Greystone Park in Morris Plains. Veteran head coach Stan Fryczynski had to do some masterful juggling with his team prior to the sectionals. “My fourth, fifth and sixth place runners …

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Jason Harrison began playing football like most Jersey City kids, running under passes on the streets, in Harrison’s case, his neighborhood of Seidler Street in Jersey City’s Bergen-Lafayette section. “I just loved playing the game,” Harrison said. His love for the game never dipped. Harrison soon joined the Jersey City Recreation program, but he was …

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When Fernando Colon took over the duties of becoming the first-ever girls’ volleyball coach at Hudson Catholic seven years ago, he literally had to start from scratch. Never mind not having any players, considering that Hudson Catholic first started to admit girls into the school in 2009. But there was no hint of volleyball anything …

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A year ago, the Union City girls’ cross country program made history by winning the first-ever Hudson County Track Coaches Association championship in the school’s history. So last week, the Soaring Eagles looked to make it two straight. “This year was completely different from last year,” said Union City head coach Scott Emmerling. “Last year, …

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For the last three-plus years, Camille Bertholon has been a good runner for the prestigious St. Dominic Academy cross country and track teams. Last spring, Bertholon captured both the 1,600-meter run and the 3,200-meter run at the Hudson County Track Coaches Association championships in impressive times. But sometimes, good just isn’t good enough. You have …

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There are times where academia just takes major precedence over athletics. Take, for instance, the case of Nolan Burns, who has a very unique story to tell. Burns, who attends the prestigious Infinity Institute High School in Jersey City (located at the former site of St. Paul’s of Greenville grammar school and later CREATE Charter), …

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