Jason Goerge to coach alongside his father and brother at Woodbridge after leaving JP Stevens

When Joe Goerge left South Brunswick – the first time, after the 2018 season – it was, in part, because his sons had a long commute to the Vikings’ games.

Jason and Michael were his assistants, and had been for more than a decade at that point. But they both were working elsewhere. Michael was teaching in the Springfield district, and Jason in Elizabeth.

So Goerge took a job on Staten Island – much closer – but eventually came back to South Brunswick, and Jason departed after the 2022 season to take the head job at JP Stevens, which had not won a game at that point since 2018.

Now, the two will be reunited. Jason Goerge left the Hawks in January to go after an open position on his father’s staff, and now he’ll work under his father once again, this time at Woodbridge, though he’ll continue teaching at JP Stevens in North Edison, not a terribly long drive from the home of the Barrons.

The Woodbridge Board of Education approved the hire last week. At the same time, it approved adding Joe Goerge’s son, Michael, as a physical education teacher at the school. Teaching in the same school where a coach works is often seen as a big plus, to be in the same building with their student-athletes.

Goerge says he’ll help with the offensive and defensive lines and be the Offensive Coordinator for his father. Mike will remain as Defensive Coordinator.

“I’m excited about it,” Goerge told Central Jersey Sports Radio. “Thankfully, everyone at JP was understanding and supportive, and I’ll continue teaching there moving forward.”

Goerge says he felt like at JP Stevens, “we did a lot program-wise and things are in stable shape.”

To that end, Defensive Coordinator David Kunyz was elevated to head coach at JP Stevens in late February.

Goerge was 2-18 in two seasons at JP Stevens, but the Hawks’ season-opening win on September 6th was a memorable one, a 22-21 overtime home victory over Bound Brook that snapped a 42-game losing streak, the longest active skid in the state at the time. Andy many observers who had seen them the season before – when they were 0-11 in 2023 – felt that win was just around the corner.

The Hawks would pick up one more win on October 18th, a 20-18 victory over Roselle Park.

Click below to hear Jason Goerge talk about leaving JP Stevens to reunite with his father at Woodbridge: