Morris Sussex Sports

In this episode, Karen interviews Room to Read's Nicole Smith who talks about this incredible program and how its amazing cause is helping our community's young people. 

Morris Sussex Sports interviews former Hanover Park QB (1992) and founder of Professional Physical Therapy & Training, LLC in Madison NJ to discuss his journey from an high school athlete, college football player to professional physical therapist that helps athletes compete in a healthy way.  Also joining the podcast is fellow physical therapist Jay Rosania, who was also a high school athlete at Caldwell HS turned physical therapist.   Matt and Jay talk about the common injuries that plague the most popular fall sports and how athletes can help themselves to prevent them.  

County College of Morris golfer Ricky Christensen tells his story how he uses the NJ Stars program attend college for FREE.  

Listen has Morris Sussex Sports evaluates all 37 Morris-Sussex teams and projects their chances holding up that NJSIAA trophy at the end of the year.  

Geoffrey D'Aries is a long time friend of Mendham football and basketball.  He hasn't missed a Mendham football game in 205 consecutive games and has been to countless basketball games.   Despite being born with Cerebral Palsy and being confined to a wheel chair, Geoffrey has had a fascinating life that has led him all around the world and includes personal relationships with many celebrities and famous people.  In this episode, Geoffrey and former Mendham head football coach Doug Kirk talk about Geoffrey's amazing journey.  

Randolph head coach Will Nahan and offensive coordinator James Hickey sit down with Morris Sussex Sports to share about their up-tempo approach to coaching and the dividends they are reaping in the form of on-the-field success. 

Mark Gavagan is an entrepreneur and author of the newly released Streaker's Journal, a book designed to help make goals achievable by executing them in 9 week increments.  Gavagan shares his personal journey and how this method of achievement can work for athletes, professionals, students or anyone that has a goal.  

In this episode, Morris Sussex Sports interviews 15-year-old Taekwondo phenom Larissa Donohue who is coming off winning Silver at the PanAm Open in Portland, Oregon in June and taking Bronze at the USA Taekwondo National tournament in Minneapolis. The Villa Walsh sophomore is classified as an All American by USAT and is eyeing the 2024 and 2028 Olympics as her long term goal. Rarely is there such a high caliber athlete in the midst of our community so Morris Sussex Sports felt her story needed to be told. During this interview, Larissa talks about how she climbed the ranks of Taekwondo and what it's like to compete at such a high level with the rigorous training and diet regime that being an elite athlete requires.

Long time Daily Record writer Joe Hofmann tells countless stories about his encounters with the legendary coaches from Morris and Sussex counties through the years.

Morris Sussex Sports' owners Karen and George talk real about the humanness that goes into running a community based media company.

Mike Briggs is a long time football fixture in Morris-Sussex.  He started his football career as a player for Morristown with stints afterwards with prep school, and college (where he even walked on at the University of Miami).  In 1987, he started coaching youth football for Morristown, then later on Mendham.  Most recently he was an assistant for Morristown-Beard. 

Morris Sussex Sports recently interviewed 19-year-old Millburn local, and inventor of a fascinating new technology that could be on the brink of revolutionizing the baseball world, Elijah Taitel. Elijah is the founder of Extra Base Sports and brain child of the ProVelocity™ Bat [FULL DISCLOSURE: Morris Sussex Sports is a compensated affiliate for ProVelocity Bat and Extra Base Sports). A year ago, Elijah was a high school baseball player for Golda Och Academy in West Orange who also played for the North Jersey Cardinals club team. Throughout his high school years, he was like every other high school athlete trying to improve his craft at being better at his sport. He tried every tool and trick to try to help improve his bat speed but just felt like there had to be a better way to improve his hitting. Being engineer minded (he's a current engineering major at UCONN), he started to whiteboard and sketch some ideas that could help him train to greatly improve the rate of velocity that he swung a bat. He solicite

In this episode, we interview former Par Hills and current Montclair State softball player Ali Walek.  Ali is a senior at Montclair State who started all four years of her high school career at Par Hills as a pitcher and third baseman.  She details her stellar high school career where she started varsity all four years.  She talks about the recruiting process and how she ended up transferring from Misericordia early in her freshman year to Montclair because it felt like a much better fit.  She also talks about the big difference between high school and college athletics and how the college routine keeps her focused to stay on track.

In this podcast episode we interview former Par Hills state champion football quarterback Nick Verducci.  Nick was one of the most revered and respected players in Morris-Sussex history after starting all four years of his high school career, making it to MetLife Stadium twice and bringing coach Dave Albano his first state championship title. Listen as Nick talks about winning a state title as a fourteen-year-old, playing nearly 50-games during his high school career and what it's like playing college ball for Montclair State University.

Morris Sussex Sports and Don Brower of Morris County HS Wrestling are combining to bring provide top notch wrestling coverage of all the Morris-Sussex wrestling teams through weekly podcasts and live stream broadcasts.  No high school wrestling writer has more of a handle on the pulse of wrestling in Northern New Jersey than Brower and his insights and expertise provide wrestling lovers everything they'd ever need or want to stay up on every single team and wrestler. In this episode, Brower doubles down and gives his predictions for each weight.  Listen to see which Morris-Sussex wrestler he see's taking top spot!  

Morris Sussex Sports, along with hockey guru Justin Scicchitano, talk about each Morris-Sussex hockey team on their way to the state finals. You can listen to the audio podcast as it all gets broken down.

Morris Sussex Sports and Don Brower of Morris County HS Wrestling are combining to bring provide top notch wrestling coverage of all the Morris-Sussex wrestling teams through weekly podcasts and live stream broadcasts.  No high school wrestling writer has more of a handle on the pulse of wrestling in Northern New Jersey than Brower and his insights and expertise provide wrestling lovers everything they'd ever need or want to stay up on every single team and wrestler. In this episode of this show which we are calling Back Points, Brower shares insights about this past week's wresting action of the 2018-2019 season, including some stellar matches, his latest Top 10 and who he is giving his Wrestler of the Week to.

Morris Sussex Sports, along with hockey guru Justin Scicchitano, talk about each Morris-Sussex hockey team and recap Justin's official Top 15 Hockey Team Rankings for this week. You can listen to the audio podcast as it all gets broken down to find out how your team got ranked or why they are left off the list. Top 15 Hockey Teams (Week of 2/13/2019) 1. Delby   2. Randolph   3. PJ   4. Madison   5. Knolls/Hills   6. Vernon  7. Chatham 8. Morristown-Beard 9. Kinnelon  10. Morristown   11. Montville   12. Sparta/Jefferson  13. Mendham  14. Roxbury 15. West Morris  

Morris Sussex Sports and Don Brower of Morris County HS Wrestling are combining to bring provide top notch wrestling coverage of all the Morris-Sussex wrestling teams through weekly podcasts and live stream broadcasts.  No high school wrestling writer has more of a handle on the pulse of wrestling in Northern New Jersey than Brower and his insights and expertise provide wrestling lovers everything they'd ever need or want to stay up on every single team and wrestler. In this episode of this show which we are calling Back Points, Brower shares insights about this past week's wresting action of the 2018-2019 season, including some stellar matches, his latest Top 10 and who he is giving his Wrestler of the Week to.

Morris Sussex Sports and Don Brower of Morris County HS Wrestling are combining to bring provide top notch wrestling coverage of all the Morris-Sussex wrestling teams through weekly podcasts and live stream broadcasts.  No high school wrestling writer has more of a handle on the pulse of wrestling in Northern New Jersey than Brower and his insights and expertise provide wrestling lovers everything they'd ever need or want to stay up on every single team and wrestler. In this episode of this show which we are calling Back Points, Brower shares insights about this past week's wresting action of the 2018-2019 season, including some stellar matches, his latest Top 10 and who he is giving his Wrestler of the Week to. Don's Top 10 for 1/15/2019 1) Delbarton (12-1) 2) Mendham (10-2) 3) West Morris (8-5) 4) Pope John (10-2) 5) High Point (11-2) 6) Hanover Park (8-5) 7) Newton (11-6) 8) Roxbury (9-6) 9) Mount Olive (11-2) 10) Kittatinny (12-7)