Wayne Hills High School
Encyclopedia
Wayne Hills High School is a comprehensive
community public high school
, in Wayne
, in Passaic County
, New Jersey
, United States, operating as one of the two high schools that are part of the Wayne Public Schools
. The mascot is a Patriot.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,351 students and 108 classroom teachers (on an FTE
basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.51.
, the school was ranked 64th in New Jersey and 1,902nd nationwide.
In Newsweek
's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Wayne Hills High School was listed in 1102nd place, the 34th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.
The school was the 51st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly
magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 60th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 70th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.
, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
. The school had previously participated in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League
(NBIAL) as the only team outside Bergen County
participating in the league.
Wayne Hills sports teams include: volleyball
, soccer
, tennis
, football
, marching band
, field hockey
, basketball
, cheerleading
, bowling
, wrestling
, skiing
, fencing
, ice hockey
, track and field
, swimming
, cross country running
, lacrosse
, gymnastics
, baseball
, softball
and golf
.
The Wayne Hills Boys track team were 2003 County, League, and State Champions.
The Wayne Hills Golf team won the county tournament in 2002 and 2003.
As of 2007, Wayne Hills also has the reigning county champions in Boys and Girls Tennis.
The 2008 Boys Volleyball team was undefeated and went on to winning the Passaic County Championship.
In 2009, the Boys Swim team won the Passaic County Championship, the second tournament ever held. In 2010, the Girls and Boys won the Passaic County Championship. In the same season, both teams won their division of the Tri-County league. The boys finished with an undefeated regular season. Both teams competed in and lost in the first round of the state tournament.
team has been led by Coach Chris Olsen, winning won six state sectional championships in seven years through 2008, reigning as the five-time defending champs of North I Group III. The team accumulated a 65-6 record during the seven seasons through 2008.
In 2002, the varsity team won their first North Jersey I Group III title in the school's history by defeating Ramapo High School 19-0. This was also the first undefeated football season. Additionally, several members of this senior class became professional athletes. Tight end Greg Olsen
went on to play college and professional football.
From 2004 to 2009, the team won 55 consecutive games. During the winning streak, the team won five championships, including four perfect 12-0 seasons. The Wayne Hills 55-game win streak came to an end with a 17-15 loss to Saint Joseph Regional High School
on October 2. The streak is the second longest in New Jersey high school football history, behind only to Paulsboro High School
's 63-game win streak.
The football team was in the 2005 playoffs as the top seed in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating #8-seed Teaneck High School
40-6 and number-four Ramapo High School 41-13, and then crushing third-seeded Parsippany Hills High School
46-0 in the sectional finals.
In 2006, the Patriots came in seeded second in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating 7th-seed Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan
37-7 and 6th-seed Passaic Valley Regional High School
33-0. In the state finals, played at Rutgers University
on December 2, 2006, Wayne Hills defeated fourth-seeded Parsippany Hills High School
23-12, the second consecutive year the two faced each other in the finals.
In 2006, the football team was ranked 3rd behind #1 Don Bosco Prep
and #2 St.Peter's Prep
in New Jersey. The team was ranked 7th in the East region by USA Today
in their final 2006 Super 25 prep football regional rankings.
Wayne Hill's football team finished 12-0 in the 2007 season, defeating Wayne Valley High School
in the North I Group III state sectional championship game played at Giants Stadium
by a final score of 27-7. The win was team's 40th consecutive win, and its fourth consecutive sectional title.
On December 6, 2008, Wayne Hills played Lakeland Regional High School
at Giants Stadium
. Wayne Hills won with a final score of 35-6, making them 52-0 in the previous four seasons, and giving them their fifth consecutive sectional title. As of December 9, 2008, Wayne Hills was ranked 81st on the Rivals.com
list of the top 100 high school football teams in the nation. The only other New Jersey teams then on the list were Shawnee High School (88th) and Don Bosco Prep
(17th).
On December 5, 2009, Wayne Hills lost to their longtime rival, Ramapo High School, in the North I, Group III State championship at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford.
On December 4, 2010, Wayne Hills won the North I Group III state championship against Northern Valley Old Tappan High School in what has been called the Miracle in the Meadowlands at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. This last second effort was a lateral pass from Brain Dowling to Troy Zaffino on an ensuing kickoff to win the State Championship. Wayne Hills won that game 24-21 in what was one of the most exciting games in school history.
The team ended this year ranked 3rd in the Bergen Records's top 25 best high school teams in North Jersey and its National Ranking according to Max Preps is 289
Comprehensive high school
Comprehensive high schools are the most common form of public high schools in the United States and are meant to serve the needs of all students, as compared to the common practice in other nations in which examinations are used to sort students into different high schools for different populations...
community public high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
, in Wayne
Wayne, New Jersey
Wayne is a Township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, located less than from midtown Manhattan. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population of 54,069....
, in Passaic County
Passaic County, New Jersey
Passaic County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 501,226. Its county seat is Paterson...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, United States, operating as one of the two high schools that are part of the Wayne Public Schools
Wayne Public Schools
The Wayne Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States....
. The mascot is a Patriot.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,351 students and 108 classroom teachers (on an FTE
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.51.
Awards and recognition
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington PostThe Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, the school was ranked 64th in New Jersey and 1,902nd nationwide.
In Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Wayne Hills High School was listed in 1102nd place, the 34th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.
The school was the 51st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly is a monthly glossy publication featuring issues of possible interest to residents of the United States state of New Jersey...
magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 60th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 70th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.
Sports
The Wayne Hills High School Patriots now compete in the Big North ConferenceBig North Conference
The Big North Conference is a high school athletic conference in New Jersey. It is one of six North Jersey "super athletic conferences" created by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association in 2009...
, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association is an association of hundreds of New Jersey high schools that regulates high school athletics and holds tournaments and crowns champions in high school sports.-State championships:...
. The school had previously participated in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League
North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League
The North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League, abbreviated NBIL or NBIAL, was an athletic conference of twelve high schools located in the northern part of Bergen County, New Jersey...
(NBIAL) as the only team outside Bergen County
Bergen County, New Jersey
Bergen County is the most populous county of the state of New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 905,116. The county is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Hackensack...
participating in the league.
Wayne Hills sports teams include: volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, soccer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, marching band
Marching band
Marching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
, field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, bowling
Bowling
Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
, wrestling
Scholastic wrestling
Scholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
, skiing
Skiing
Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....
, fencing
Fencing
Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
, ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
, track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, cross country running
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
and golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
.
The Wayne Hills Boys track team were 2003 County, League, and State Champions.
The Wayne Hills Golf team won the county tournament in 2002 and 2003.
As of 2007, Wayne Hills also has the reigning county champions in Boys and Girls Tennis.
The 2008 Boys Volleyball team was undefeated and went on to winning the Passaic County Championship.
In 2009, the Boys Swim team won the Passaic County Championship, the second tournament ever held. In 2010, the Girls and Boys won the Passaic County Championship. In the same season, both teams won their division of the Tri-County league. The boys finished with an undefeated regular season. Both teams competed in and lost in the first round of the state tournament.
Football
The Wayne Hills footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team has been led by Coach Chris Olsen, winning won six state sectional championships in seven years through 2008, reigning as the five-time defending champs of North I Group III. The team accumulated a 65-6 record during the seven seasons through 2008.
In 2002, the varsity team won their first North Jersey I Group III title in the school's history by defeating Ramapo High School 19-0. This was also the first undefeated football season. Additionally, several members of this senior class became professional athletes. Tight end Greg Olsen
Greg Olsen (American football)
Gregory Olsen is an American football tight end for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft...
went on to play college and professional football.
From 2004 to 2009, the team won 55 consecutive games. During the winning streak, the team won five championships, including four perfect 12-0 seasons. The Wayne Hills 55-game win streak came to an end with a 17-15 loss to Saint Joseph Regional High School
Saint Joseph Regional High School
Saint Joseph Regional High School is a private, Roman Catholic, college preparatory school for boys, located on a campus in Montvale, New Jersey. The school operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. St. Joseph Regional High School was founded in 1962 by the Brothers...
on October 2. The streak is the second longest in New Jersey high school football history, behind only to Paulsboro High School
Paulsboro High School
Paulsboro High School is a comprehensive community six-year public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Paulsboro, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Paulsboro Public Schools....
's 63-game win streak.
The football team was in the 2005 playoffs as the top seed in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating #8-seed Teaneck High School
Teaneck High School
Teaneck High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, which is part of the Teaneck Public Schools district in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States...
40-6 and number-four Ramapo High School 41-13, and then crushing third-seeded Parsippany Hills High School
Parsippany Hills High School
Parsippany Hills High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, one of two high schools in the township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade as part of the Parsippany-Troy Hills School District. Built in 1969, the school...
46-0 in the sectional finals.
In 2006, the Patriots came in seeded second in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating 7th-seed Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan
Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan
Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan is a comprehensive four-year regional public high school serving students from several municipalities in Bergen County, New Jersey. The high school serves students from the suburban communities of Harrington Park, Northvale, Norwood, and Old Tappan...
37-7 and 6th-seed Passaic Valley Regional High School
Passaic Valley Regional High School
Passaic Valley Regional High School is the name of both a public high school in Little Falls, New Jersey, and the regional school district for three communities in Passaic County: Little Falls , Totowa and Woodland Park .As of the...
33-0. In the state finals, played at Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
on December 2, 2006, Wayne Hills defeated fourth-seeded Parsippany Hills High School
Parsippany Hills High School
Parsippany Hills High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, one of two high schools in the township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade as part of the Parsippany-Troy Hills School District. Built in 1969, the school...
23-12, the second consecutive year the two faced each other in the finals.
In 2006, the football team was ranked 3rd behind #1 Don Bosco Prep
Don Bosco Preparatory High School
Don Bosco Preparatory High School is a private, Roman Catholic secondary school for young men, grades 9 through 12. Founded by the Salesians of Don Bosco, a religious order of priests and brothers, the school is situated on a campus in Ramsey, New Jersey, United States...
and #2 St.Peter's Prep
St. Peter's Preparatory School
Saint Peter's Preparatory School is a private all-male Jesuit college-preparatory school located in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA...
in New Jersey. The team was ranked 7th in the East region by USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
in their final 2006 Super 25 prep football regional rankings.
Wayne Hill's football team finished 12-0 in the 2007 season, defeating Wayne Valley High School
Wayne Valley High School
Wayne Valley High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school, one of the two high schools in Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Wayne Public Schools...
in the North I Group III state sectional championship game played at Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. Maximum seating capacity was 80,242. The building itself was 230.5 m long, 180.5 m wide and 44 m high from service level to the top of the seating bowl and 54 m high to...
by a final score of 27-7. The win was team's 40th consecutive win, and its fourth consecutive sectional title.
On December 6, 2008, Wayne Hills played Lakeland Regional High School
Lakeland Regional High School
Lakeland Regional High School is a comprehensive regional four-year public high school and school district serving students from two communities in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States...
at Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. Maximum seating capacity was 80,242. The building itself was 230.5 m long, 180.5 m wide and 44 m high from service level to the top of the seating bowl and 54 m high to...
. Wayne Hills won with a final score of 35-6, making them 52-0 in the previous four seasons, and giving them their fifth consecutive sectional title. As of December 9, 2008, Wayne Hills was ranked 81st on the Rivals.com
Rivals.com
Rivals.com is a network of websites that focus mainly on college football and basketball recruiting. The network was started in 1996 and currently employs more than 300 personnel.-Schools:The individual collegiate sites can be found...
list of the top 100 high school football teams in the nation. The only other New Jersey teams then on the list were Shawnee High School (88th) and Don Bosco Prep
Don Bosco Preparatory High School
Don Bosco Preparatory High School is a private, Roman Catholic secondary school for young men, grades 9 through 12. Founded by the Salesians of Don Bosco, a religious order of priests and brothers, the school is situated on a campus in Ramsey, New Jersey, United States...
(17th).
On December 5, 2009, Wayne Hills lost to their longtime rival, Ramapo High School, in the North I, Group III State championship at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford.
On December 4, 2010, Wayne Hills won the North I Group III state championship against Northern Valley Old Tappan High School in what has been called the Miracle in the Meadowlands at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. This last second effort was a lateral pass from Brain Dowling to Troy Zaffino on an ensuing kickoff to win the State Championship. Wayne Hills won that game 24-21 in what was one of the most exciting games in school history.
The team ended this year ranked 3rd in the Bergen Records's top 25 best high school teams in North Jersey and its National Ranking according to Max Preps is 289
Notable alumni
- Chris CarterChris Carter (producer/disc jockey)Chris Carter is a Los Angeles-based disc jockey and music/film producer who started his music career as a founding member and bass player with alternative rock/power pop band Dramarama. After Dramarama originally split in 1994, Carter formed QM Management to manage LA pop group The Wondermints,...
, disk jockey and producer who was one of the founding members of Dramarama. - John EasdaleJohn EasdaleJohn Easdale is the lead singer and songwriter for the American band Dramarama.Easdale grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, and graduated from Wayne Hills High School.-External links:*...
(born 1961), lead singer of DramaramaDramaramaDramarama is an alternative rock band.It may also refer to:* Dramarama , a 1980s British television series* Dramarama , a 2006 film that was to star Lindsay Lohan but was unreleased...
. - Ryan NeillRyan NeillRyan Neill is an American football long snapper who is currently a free agent in the National Football League. He was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He grew up in Wayne, New Jersey and played college football at Rutgers.Neill has also played for the San Diego...
(born 1982), long snapper for the San Diego ChargersSan Diego ChargersThe San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
. - Greg OlsenGreg Olsen (American football)Gregory Olsen is an American football tight end for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft...
(born 1985), tight end for the Carolina PanthersCarolina PanthersThe Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion...
. - Rob SawickiRob SawickiRobert Michael Sawicki is a retired American professional basketball player who most notably played a short stint with the Boston Celtics in 2002 and several seasons in Europe. Sawicki grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, and played high school basketball at Wayne Hills High School...
(born 1978), basketball player who played briefly for the Boston CelticsBoston CelticsThe Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...
.
External links
- Wayne Hills High School website
- Data for Wayne Hills High School, National Center for Education StatisticsNational Center for Education StatisticsThe National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...