Tag: Jim Hague

Fawzia Kheir truly believed she was destined to become a basketball player. After all, her father, Ahmed, was a basketball player in his younger days. “I tried a lot of sports when I was younger, but I really liked basketball because of my dad,” Fawzia Kheir said. “I was a good rebounder.” But there was …

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Kheir blazing the trail as county’s top female cross country performerCounty Prep senior, competing for Dickinson, carries torch for Muslim runners”

If there has been one consistent trait about the Secaucus High School football program over the years, it’s been the Patriots’ ability to produce solid go-to running backs. There has been a litany of talented backs, all standout Hudson Reporter All-Area honorees, going back to the days of Eric Otlowski, Vinnie Sasso, and Sean Cannon, …

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Secaucus’ Schaffer next in line of great Patriot running backs”

When the scoring breakdown of Hudson Catholic’s recent boys’ soccer victory over Marist first appeared in local papers and online, it didn’t appear as being too newsworthy. It said that sophomore forward R.J. Tumamak scored a goal in the Hawks’ 4-1 victory. However, what wasn’t apparent right away is that the player with the name …

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Hudson Catholic’s Tumamak earns a distinctionBecomes first girl to score a goal in a varsity boys’ game in almost 25 years”

After posting a 15-7 record last season and falling in the Hudson County Tournament semifinals to eventual champion Kearny in overtime, St. Peter’s Prep head soccer coach Josh Jantas had higher expectations for the 2011 season. “We had a really good group back from last year,” said Jantas, who entered the fourth season as head …

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Marauders living up to expectationsPrep soccer team off to sensational start”

The Hudson Reporter Athlete of the Week feature has been a staple of this newspaper during the scholastic sports seasons for more than 20 years. It’s been written by this reporter for the last 25 years or so. More than 1,000 or so Hudson County high school athletes have been profiled in the feature over …

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Weehawken’s Corredor, Union City’s Moreira lead the state in rushing yardsBoth local grid standouts eclipse the 300-yard plateau, score four touchdowns”

It’s safe to say that veteran St. Peter’s Prep football coach Rich Hansen wasn’t pleased with his team’s defensive performance over the first two weeks of the season. After all, Hansen has prided himself on always being a defensive minded coach first and foremost. So when the Marauders surrendered 92 points in their first two …

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Marauders recover with shutout win over North BergenImpressive grid performances; Union City football reunion planned”

There was a time when the Memorial High School boys’ cross country program was among the best and most feared in the state of New Jersey. The Tigers produced countless county and state championships, made household names out of runners like former West New York mayor Sal Vega, and brought a lot of pride and …

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A return to glory for Memorial’s cross country teamTigers win Passaic County Coaches Invitational crown, first time in a decade”

A year ago, when Oscar Guerrero took over the head football coaching position at his high school alma mater, namely Memorial High School, he knew it would take some time to turn the program around. The first year of the Guerrero regime didn’t exactly excite anyone, with the Tigers struggling to the tune of a …

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It hasn’t been easy for the Hudson Catholic football program, having gone through four different head coaches over the last four years. But the new head coach of the Hawks, Colin Eckert, already senses major changes in the program. “They’re absolutely buying into what we want them to do,” said Eckert, who was previously a …

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Zach Naszimento knows that Rome wasn’t built in a day and the Ming Dynasty didn’t exactly take shape overnight. So when the former Secaucus High School grid standout and former University of Cincinnati player took over the reins as the new head football coach and athletic director at Weehawken High School, Naszimento knew that it …

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Weehawken explodes out to great start under new coach NaszimentoIndians stampede past Wood-Ridge in opening game”