Asbury Park to throw parade saluting young football heroes
By NANCY SHIELDS
COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU
City and school officials announced Tuesday that a parade to honor the
championship Asbury Park High School and Pop Warner Blue Bishop
football teams will begin at 1 p.m. Dec. 22 at Bangs and DeWitt avenues.
The parade will follow a route east on Bangs to Main Street, then
Cookman Avenue, Grand Avenue and Fifth Avenue, ending up at Convention
Hall, where a celebration will be held, Deputy Mayor James Bruno said.
The high school team, under new coach Don Sofilkanich, went 11-1 and
on Nov. 30 won the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I championship, the
school's first sectional title since 1984.
A week later, the Pop Warner Pee Wee team, under coach Syron Davis,
won the national championship the Division II Pee Wee title Dec. 7
in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Bruno, whose late father, William "Butch" Bruno, was an Asbury Park
High School football coach, flew to Florida to see the Pee Wees'
championship game, and said Tuesday of both teams' wins: "Seeing and
living this just brings it home to me."
"It is a tremendous accomplishment for both the high school and Pop
Warner teams," said acting Schools Superintendent James Parham.
Assistant City Manager James Famularo said the Pop Warner organization
received $31,000 in donations for the trip to Florida and spent
$22,500. That $31,000 did not include a $5,000 commitment from the
Berkeley hotel, he said.
Famularo said part of the leftover money will be used to buy the
players team jackets, and the rest will be used to start up a Pop
Warner fund for next year's teams.
Madison Marquette, one of the city's beachfront developers, is
providing the food for the celebration.
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