Netters:
I wonder how many high or prep schools can claim to have won major
team titles in thrtee centuries.
We now have two of them in new Jersey
Lawrenceville School, our third-oldest prep school (founded 1810 and
one of the few schools in the counry to have a movie made about it), was
first there when it won a state prep meet in 2001 to go along with several
19th century wins in what passed for a state meet in those days (our state
association dates from 1919) It then won countless state honors during the
20th century.
Today, Montclair HS joined the list when its girls' team won the
North jersey 2 Group IV title at Roxbury, led by Stanford-bound Jennifer
Whitlock, who tripled the sprints and 100H. The Mounties won at least once
in thos 19th cenrtury meets and was the dominant team in the state for much
of the 20th century. It is also a school which has had just four head
coaches in the past 80+ years, the current one being Ray Spivey, who was a
member of one of the best Montclair teams in 1956.
I'll have a fuller report on the sectionals later, but Ray Williams
of Scotch Plains highlighted first-day action on FRiday with a 47.5 win in
the North Jersey 2 Group III meet.
Ed Grant
