New Brunswick names Geoffrey Chrisman new football coach to revive program

Several months after Steve Gluchowski stepped down as head football coach at New Brunswick, the district has hired Geoffrey Chrisman as the Zebras’ new leader.

Chrisman – who just joined the district as a teacher last school year, according to his LinkedIn bio – most recently was the head girls’ lacrosse coach and assistant field hockey coach at The Hun School in Princeton, but had been an assistant football coach at North Hunterdon for two seasons – 2018 and 2019 – under head coach Jared Mazzetta. He’s also been at Princeton High and had a prior stint as teacher and assistant coach in New Brunswick, while also serving three years as an assistant and two seasons as head coach in 2015 and 2016 at West Windsor-Plainsboro South, which now is a co-op with West Windsor-Plainsboro North.

Gluchowski came to New Brunswick from Spotswood, where he was an assistant, but the Zebras didn’t muster a win in his two seasons, going 0-9 in both 2023 and 2024. New Brunswick has dealt with historically low numbers in recent years, despite being a Group 5 school.

New Brunswick football hasn’t had a winning record since Don Sofilkanich coached them to a 9-2 season in 2015, where they reached the Central Jersey Group 5 semifinals and lost to Old Bridge. They won just four the next year, and only reached four wins once more, in 2019 under former Zebra standout Nate Harris.

A request for an interview was referred to the school’s Athletic Office for approval, but has not been returned as of this writing.