A year after joining Klinger’s staff at Rutgers Prep, Audrey Taylor takes the reigns following her friend’s retirement
“I can barely believe I’m writing this, but it’s true: I’m joining the Legendary Coach Mary Klinger’s (Rutgers Preparatory School) staff this season.” That was the first line from a blog post on Audrey Taylor’s website on November 10th of last year. After 13 years coaching at Franklin – with some amazing teams, and players like Diamond Miller and others, who helped the Warriors win not one, but two Tournament of Champions titles and much more hardware in the process – and a year away from the high school game, Taylor was ready to get back into it, and did…
Looking back: Mary Klinger reflects on 42 years at Rutgers Prep, as legendary coach announces her retirement
Rutgers Prep girls’ basketball coach Mary Klinger has announced her retirement after 42 years leading the Argonauts, and her assistant last season – former Franklin coach Audrey Taylor – has been named as her successor. READ OUR FULL STORY HERE: Rutgers Prep girls’ basketball coach, AD Mary Klinger retiring after more than four decades; Audrey Taylor to lead program We’ll have a full, one-on-one interview with Taylor later on this morning. In the meantime, Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko got to have an extensive conversation with Klinger. Click below to listen to the interview:
Rutgers Prep girls’ basketball coach, AD Mary Klinger retiring after more than four decades; Audrey Taylor to lead program
Longtime Rutgers Prep girls’ basketball coach Mary Klinger is retiring after 42 years at the Easton Avenue school. The Rutgers Prep girls’ basketball team broke the news Wednesday night on Instagram. Assistant and friend Audrey Taylor – the former Franklin coach who won two Tournament of Champions titles there – has been named the program’s new head coach, Klinger confirmed to Central Jersey Sports Radio on Thursday morning. INTERVIEW: Looking back: Mary Klinger reflects on 42 years at Rutgers Prep, as legendary coach announces her retirement Klinger – then Mary Coyle – was a member of the 1982 Rutgers women’s…
Shot clock is coming to New Jersey high school basketball, as NJSIAA measure for HS basketball passes narrowly
A well-coordinated effort to bring the shot clock to high school basketball in New Jersey just barely made it to the finish line Monday, winning approval by a slim margin in a vote of the full NJSIAA membership during a meeting at the Pines Manor in Edison. The basketball proposal passed 170-166, and the shot clock will begin when the 2027-28 season tips off. Use of the shot clock will be mandatory for all varsity games, but optional for JV and freshman contests. A similar shot clock measure in lacrosse was defeated however, by a 166-149 margin, with 21 abstentions,…
Greater Middlesex Conference realigns basketball divisions for boys’, girls’ hoops in 2026-27
After its first year of breaking divisions into Red, White and Blue “American” and “National” groupings for girls’ and boys’ basketball, the Greater Middlesex Conference is staying with that format, but still making some adjustments to its alignments for the 2026-27 season. The changes were approved by the GMC’s athletic directors on April 23rd. Only six schools on the boys’ side will find new homes next season, while a dozen will move around on the girls’ side. In most cases, moves down are teams that finished in last place in their division, while some that finished first moved up. In…
Longtime East Brunswick boys’ hoops coach Mark Motusesky steps down after 13 years leading the Bears
Coming off one of the program’s most successful campaigns in over a decade, East Brunswick boys’ basketball coach Mark Motusesky has stepped down as head coach after 13 seasons at the helm. Motusesky made the announcement Friday afternoon. “It was a very difficult decision,” Motusesky wrote, “but ultimately it was the right one to be made. My daughter is going to be a freshman, and I know I would regret not being there.” That’s his daughter Ashley, who will be on the freshman team this coming school year. And, the girls’ program is somewhat of a family affair. Sophomore Ava…
NJSIAA moving Colonia boys’ basketball up to Group 4 based on new success formula
With the prevalence of charter schools live Thrive Charter and College Achieve Asbury Park in basketball, as well as public schools that draw students from outside their traditional geographical boundaries, the NJSIAA created a success formula, that moves team up in Group size for playoff qualification. And now, Middlesex County has seen its first team be affected by the new rule, as the Colonia boys’ basketball program – which has won five straight sectional titles and six of the last seven – is moving up to Group 4. The news was announced Wednesday by the NJSIAA at its monthly meeting…
Edison native, JP Stevens alum Dylan Brett gets call of a lifetime with Hofstra basketball’s run to the Big Dance
It all started for Dylan Brett when he was nine years old. Edison Pop Warner couldn’t find anyone to do the public address during a game. Someone asked him. He wound up calling every play, like it was on the radio, not just announcing who carried the ball or made the tackle. It wasn’t quite the assignment, but the parents loved it, and it stuck. Fast forward more than a decade, and the JP Stevens grad is at Hofstra University’s student radio station WRHU, one of the top college radio stations in the nation. How it started, and how it’s…
Stellar sophomore campaign earns East Brunswick’s Ava Catanho CJSR GMC Girls’ Basketball Player of the Year
We get asked a lot about our process for naming a Player of the Year. It starts out that they have to be really good, of course, but there are a lot of very good ball players out there. So, our next criteria is the value to their team. A team is just that, never one player, but sometimes, there’s one star who stands out, without whose contributions the success of that season might very well not have been possible. For East Brunswick, that’s sophomore Ava Catanho. Sure, senior Julianna DelosSantos-Branson had a huge impact, nearly averaging a double-double, with…
Jimmy Kreie’s first-year success earns Franklin girls’ mentor CJSR’s Somerset County Girls’ Coach of the Year honors
Franklin girls’ basketball is a program built on tradition and plenty of winning, benchmarks set not too long ago in the 2010s. Former coach Audrey Taylor had the Warriors rolling, with four group state titles and two Tournament of Champions trophies, including the famed 34-0 2018-19 squad. After a six-year hardware drought, Franklin brought back the shine that put the Warriors on the map across the state, under the leadership of first-year head coach Jimmy Kreie. Following a run at Montclair Immaculate – capped by a Non-Public B title in the school’s final year of operation last season – Kreie…
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