St. Thomas Aquinas names former NJCU women’s coach Pat Devaney new girls’ basketball mentor
They say never follow a legend. That may or may not be the case with the St. Thomas Aquinas girls’ basketball program, where three different coaches have combined to win seven straight GMC Tournament titles dating back to 2019, but it’s pretty darn close. Enter Pat Devaney, who has been hired as the Trojans’ new girls’ basketball coach, the school announced on Friday. Devaney takes over following the departure of Tim Corrigan, who won three championships over a three-year span as head coach, following Joe Whalen. Corrigan was recently named the boys’ basketball head coach at his alma mater, St.…
Rutgers Prep to rename court after Mary Klinger, longtime girls’ hoops coach
Rutgers Prep has announced it will rename its court this Spring in honor of Mary Klinger, the girls’ basketball coach at the school who retired after last season, and 42 years heading up the Argonaut program. The ceremony to be held at the O’Connell Athletic Center was announced Monday and will be held on Saturday, May 22nd, while it was also announced there will be a reunion of Klinger’s past teams and their families during the basketball season. Klinger retired in June, with her assistant and friend Audrey Taylor taking over the reins this season. Taylor had a successful run…
It’s official: St. Joseph-Metuchen names Tim Corrigan new boys’ basketball coach in wake of Mark Taylor’s resignation
In 1993, St. Joseph-Metuchen won its first Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament boys’ basketball title, with a young man named Tim Corrigan on the squad. Now, 33 years later, he is the program’s new head coach, it was announced Wednesday afternoon by the school in a press release. He replaces fellow alum Mark Taylor, who resigned last Friday. Corrigan signed a contract with St. Joe’s Wednesday morning, and is working on assembling a coaching staff for the upcoming season, which gets underway with practices in less than two months – on November 30th – while the season can officially start as…
With Taylor gone from St. Joseph, Corrigan leaving Aquinas, where does it leave them, and GMC boys’ and girls’ basketball?
The first announcement was enough to send some shockwaves through the girls’ basketball community in Middlesex county, and came out on a football Friday in the fall, rather than in the Spring or Summer: third-year St. Thomas Aquinas girls’ basketball coach Tim Corrigan was leaving to become as assistant at his alma mater, St. Joseph of Metuchen, in the boys’ side. This is the same Trojan program that has won seven straight GMC Tournament championships with very talented players, over three coaches and two school names: the first under Brittney Griffin as Bishop Ahr, the next three under Joe Whalen…
After just one year in second run, Mark Taylor is out as St. Joseph-Metuchen head coach
When former St. Joseph-Metuchen standout Mark Taylor – Class of 1983 – was hired for a second go ’round with the Falcons back in April of 2025, the news was a big splash in the world of high school basketball in New Jersey. A standout in the ’80s, he later coached the school in the 90s, responsible for several D1 college players, most notably Jay Williams. And after a year with Karl Towns, Sr., the father of the school’s biggest name since Williams, Karl-Anthony Towns, leading the program to disastrous effect – the team floundered as he often missed games…
A few personal thoughts on the loss of a great reporter, and an even better man, Greg Tufaro
When Greg Tufaro, the longtime Middlesex County sportswriter, passed away this Monday, the news was a shock to many. But it really shouldn’t have been. Not to say we all expected it. No one did. But so few people knew he was even sick. I had heard about it second hand. When we spoke exactly […]
Longtime Middlesex County sportswriter, founder of Marisa Tufaro Foundation, Greg Tufaro passes away
For some three decades, if there was a story to be found in the sports world and beyond in Middlesex County – sometimes the story behind the story – Greg Tufaro was the guy who would have it. And for the past nine years, if there was a good cause, the Marisa Tufaro Foundation – […]
After nearly a decade, and a half-million dollars donated, Marisa Tufaro Foundation wraps up its charitable mission
Ten years would have been a nice round number. But so is a half-million dollars. That’s what the Marisa Tufaro Foundation has donated has donated to families and pediatric patients, charitable organizations and scholarship efforts around the state since its founding nine years ago, on July 30, 2017. But all good things must come to an end, and the group’s founders have announced the end of the Marisa Tufaro Foundation’s charitable mission. It was created by longtime Home News Tribune/MyCentralJersey sportswriter Greg Tufaro and his wife, Cyndi, in memory of their daughter, Marisa, who tragically passed away in January of…
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:
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