2018 Spring Season

Spring Track & Field - Congratulations to Isaiah Webster for winning the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2 Group 1 Long Jump Championship. Congratulations to Elizabeth O’Connell on winning the 800m, 1600m and 3200m championships at the NJSIAA North 2 Group I Championships. Erin Chung, Sophia Costa, Jackie Landy and Elizabeth O’Connell for winning the 4x800 NJSIAA North 2 Group 1 Relay Championship. Elizabeth O’Connell was also the NJSIAA Group 1 Champion in the 1600m and 3200m. James Link won the Super Essex Conference Small Schools Championship in the Discus. Elizabeth O’Connell won the 800m and 1600m Championship at the Super Essex Conference Small Schools Championships.

Baseball - Congratulations to Brian Schnack for being named 1st Team All Super Essex Conference and Owen Hannigan and Cole Greenberg for being named Honorable Mention All Super Essex Conference.

Boys Lacrosse - Congratulations to Kyle Rochester and Tyler Strong on being named 1st Team All Super Essex Conference, Ege Zeybek and Jackson Crutchfield for being named 2nd Team All Super Essex Conference and Kyle Kobylinski for being named Honorable Mention All Super Essex Conference.

Girls Lacrosse - The girls lacrosse team won their 3rd consecutive Essex County Tournament Championship this past spring by defeating Montclair High School. The team also won the Super Essex Conference American Division Championship this past season. Congratulations to 1st Team All Super Essex Conference performers; Gretchen Gilmore, Jenny Lisovicz, Claire McMahon and Madison Grady. Congratulations to Sarah Looney, Campbell Moriarty, Lily Kinley and Charlotte Smith for being named 2nd Team All Conference and to Cooper Palm for being selected Honorable Mention All Super Essex Conference.

Boys Tennis - Congratulations to Joseph Biancamano and Ethan Che for being selected to the 1st Team All Super Essex Conference Liberty Division, Jan Bobrowski selected to the 2nd Team All Super Essex Conference and Ethan Huang and James Graham for being selected to the Super Essex Conference Liberty Division Honorable Mention.

Softball - Congratulations to Ava Rollo and Taylor Townson for being named 1st Team All Super Essex Conference Colonial Division, Ali Cerruto was named to 2nd Team All Conference and Hannah O’Connor for being named Honorable Mention All Conference.

Golf - Congratulations for Alex Vecchione for being named 1st Team All Super Essex Conference American Division and Ryan Twitchell Honorable Mention All Super Essex Conference American Division.

Glen Ridge High School is happy to announce the students who placed in the this year's New York Times annual editorial contest. This year Carter Sargent won an Honorable Mention and Olivia Steele and Sophia Nisivoccia won Round 3 Finalists. The contest received over 9,000 entries from all over the world, so it is quite an achievement that our students made it as far as they did. Click here for more information on the contest and the student-winners. Good work young writers!

The Varsity Chorus season has come to an end after competing with 14 high schools across the state. The GRHS Chorus earned a respectable 3 out of 5 for our overall score and received marks of Excellent in our workshops, performances and sight singing examination. What a year!!!

The GRHS Math Department is happy to report that the Algebra I team of Evan Rossi, Owen Brown, Gavin Chung, Shoh Nishino and Alex Jordan as well as our Geometry team of Jan Bobrowski, Jack Bronstein, Erin Byerly, Grant Ghaemi and Thomas Pennington both took 3rd place at the recent Essex County Math Competition. Additionally, this fine crew of 30 Mathletes (pictured) came in 4th place overall. This has been the best team showing ever for Glen Ridge High School!

Congratulations to the following student-athletes who were named All Super Essex Conference for their perspective sport.

Girls Basketball

1st Team All Conference: Claire McMahon

Honorable Mention: Jenny Lisovicz

Boys Basketball

1st Team All Conference: Tyler Liddy, Liam Gunnarsson

2nd Team All Conference: George Kinzler

Honorable Mention: David Weissenberger

1st Team All State NJ Group I - Tyler Liddy

Girls Swimming

Honorable Mention: Marlane Hlawaty

Boys Swimming

Honorable Mention: Liam Hood

Wrestling

1st Team at 170 lbs: Joe Marchesano

Honorable Mention at 126 lbs: Nick Fiorillo

Honorable Mention at 113 lbs: Jesse Samuelson

Ice Hockey

Colin Gilmore- First Team All Conference

Anton Martino- First Team All Conference

Jake Kuhn-Honorable Mention All Conference

Congratulations to GRHS Junior Amanda Zinman! She was recognized with an honorable mention last night at Kean University’s Affiliate Aspirations Award Ceremony for the NJ Women-In-Computing Aspiration in Computing Award. She was celebrated among many other NJ High School women who aspire to continue in technology and computing for post-secondary education.

Amanda has been a lead programmer for the FTC First Robotics Club Autonomous Team for over three years. She has been able to apply her skills learned in the Computer Science courses to design programs for the robot to score points during the autonomous period. Through her self-paced learning, leadership and team work, Amanda has been able to use Java and MIT App Inventor to program the robot remotely using the new Bluetooth cell phones. She is currently learning new programs to control the robot for the next season.

We are proud of her accomplishments!

Congratulations to Lily Barnett, Olivia Strikowsky, Sam Landis, and Lindsey Campbell (pictured left to right) for winning awards at this past month's Berkeley Model UN Conference! They won "Commendation" awards in their respective committees. Lindsey Campbell (far right) and Sam Landis (center-right) won a Commendation as Brazil in UNEP (the UN Environmental Programme) and Lily Barnett (far left) and Olivia Strikowsky (center-left) won a Commendation as Brazil in UNESCO (the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Good work Model UN-ers!

This year, many middle school students participated in the Letters About Literature contest, which is hosted by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Competing against tens of thousands of students from across the country, the final winners of the contest from Glen Ridge High School are Kyra Costantino, Lila Sargent, Ryan Hirsch, & Stacy Bloomfield. These students wrote letters to authors who impacted them. Each student has received an Honorable Distinction and will be honored at an awards ceremony this May. Congratulations, Kyra, Lila, Ryan, Stacy and all of the participants!

GRHS Senior Gabrielle McCarren was recognized at this year’s English Speaking Union High School Shakespeare Competition which took place in March at Brookdale Community College. She was among the top five finalists. Gabrielle presented Sonnet 60 and Helena’s monologue from Act III, Scene ii of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

More info can be found on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1749365431761498/permalink/1854198674611506/

This year, Glen Ridge Middle School students composed letters to a writer (living or deceased) who impacted them. These letters were entered in the Letters About Literature Contest hosted by the Library of Congress. Of the 1,500 letters received from New Jersey writers, 100 were chosen by judges in Washington to compete in a second round of voting. Of these 100, six are Glen Ridge students. The finalists (pictured to the right, standing left to right) are: 7th graders Lila Sargent, Stacy Bloomfield, and Ryan Hirsh and 8th graders Rachel Shepps, Alex Jordan, and Kyra Constantino!

Congratulations Middle School Writers! We now await to hear who among these 100 finalists will win after a second round of judging. This news should be announced in about two weeks.

Senior guard Tyler Liddy scored his 1,000th career point on February 13, 2018 on the same night the Boys Basketball Team defeated Weequahic in Newark, clinching the Super Essex Conference Independence Division Title for Glen Ridge. Liddy became just the ninth Boys Basketball player to score 1,000 points. The team is currently 17-6 and the two seed in the North 2 Group 1 NJSIAA State Tournament.

Model UN Students Excel

The Model UN Club traveled to John Hopkins University to participate in a conference. Two students were recognized for their performance. Lily Kinley won Best Delegate in her committee (1st place out of estimated100 students) and Garrison Huddleston won Outstanding Delegate in his committee (placed in the top three out of estimated 100 students). Congratulations to Lily and Garrison.

Congratulations to the Glen Ridge students placing in the annual NY Times review contest! Of the nearly 1,500 international entries, Glen Ridge High School has three students placing in the Top 10: Lily Barnett (seated left), Connor Crowell (standing second to the right) , and Matthew Lamberson (standing centered). One student, Guy Anello (standing second to the left), placed in the Runners-Up category. One student, Nicole Guittari (seated right) finished in the Honorable Mention category. Also pictured are High School AP teachers Katie Balaschak (left) and Jody Hackmeyer (right). The reviews of the three students who placed in the Top Ten are published on the NY Times Learning Network website. Good work, young writers!

Glen Ridge High School is one of 447 school districts in the U.S. and Canada being honored by the College Board with placement on the 8th Annual AP^® District Honor Roll. To be included on the 8th Annual Honor Roll, Glen Ridge High School had to, since 2015, increase the number of students participating in AP while also increasing or maintaining the percentage of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher. Reaching these goals shows that this district is successfully identifying motivated, academically prepared students who are ready for AP.

Helping more students learn at a higher level and earn higher AP scores is an objective of all members of the AP community, from AP teachers to district and school administrators to college professors. Many districts are experimenting with initiatives and strategies to see how they can expand access and improve student performance at the same time. Inclusion in the 8th Annual AP District Honor Roll is based on a review of three years of AP data, from 2015 to 2017, looking across 38 AP Exams, including world language and culture. The following criteria were used. Congratulations to all the educators and administrators who have worked to clear a path for more students of all backgrounds to participate and succeed in AP!

Congratulations to the Glen Ridge High School Girl's Soccer Team who won their sixth consecutive Sectional Championship and made their third consecutive trip to the Group 1 Finals. The team finished the season with a 15-4-1 record.

The High School Marching Band recently competed in two championships and entertained large crowds along the East Coast. At New Jersey State Championships in Middletown, Glen Ridge won 2nd place and earned the awards for Best Music and Best Overall Effect. That same day, at National Championships in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Glen Ridge took 2nd place and won the award for Best Music in the nation. GRHS was also chosen out of all competing bands to receive the National "Esprit de Corps" Award, given by the US Marine Corps. Congratulations to the Band on very successful season!

GRHS Class of 2017:

College Selections

American University Babson College Bard College Bates College

Berkley College of Music Boston University Carnegie Mellon University

Champlain College Clemson College Coastal Carolina University Colby College

College of Charleston College of William and Mary Columbia College Chicago

Cornell University DePaul University Dickinson College Drew University

Drexel University Duke University Emerson College Fordham University

Franklin and Marshall College George Mason University Georgetown University

German Studienkolleg Gettysburg College Hampton University

Harrisonburg University Science & Technology High Point University

Hobart and William Smith College Iona College Ithaca College

James Madison University Lehigh University Loyola University McGill University

Miami University of Ohio Michigan State University Montclair State University

New Jersey Institute of Technology New York University Northeastern University

Pennsylvania State University Philadelphia University Providence College

Quinnipiac University Rensselaer Institute of Technology Rice University

Rochester Institute of Technology Rutgers University Savannah College of Art & Design

School of Visual Arts Seton Hall University

Sheridan College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning St. Joseph's University

Stanford University Stevens Institute of Technology SUNY Maritime SUNY New Paltz

Swarthmore College Syracuse University The College of New Jersey The New School

The University of Alabama The University of Hartford Trent University Tufts University

Tulane University University of Arizona University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Santa Barbara University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Connecticut University of Delaware University of Kansas

University of Kentucky University of Maine University of Massachusetts - Amherst

University of Michigan University of Miami University of Mississippi

University of New England University of North Carolina - Wilmington

University of Pennsylvania University of Rhode Island University of Scranton

University of South Carolina University of Tennessee University of Wisconsin

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Wagner College Washington University

West Essex County College West Virginia University Wheaton College MA Yale University

National Merit Scholarship Program

Glen Ridge High School Principal Louis Melchor announced that seniors Ethan Huang and Alexander Kostas have been named Commended Students in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program.

A Letter of Commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corp. (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented by Mr. Melchor to each recipient.

2017 National AP Scholars!

Granted to students in the United States who receive an average score of at least 4 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.

Emily Duffus Ethan Huang

Judah Raab Sajan Ramanathan

2017 AP Scholars with Distinction

Granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.

Meghan Agarwal Maxwell Auborn Nora Berry

Lane Darby Allison Drier Lev Kolinski

Nicholas Mead Cameron Mehlman Richard Moriarty

Julia Sterling Deven Woolford

2017 AP Scholars with Honor

Granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.

Maxwell Abernathy Celia Buckley Sonya Dombrowski

Clark Edwards Sonia Kinkhabwala Daniel Lawson

Meghan Marhan Bryanna O'Keefe Asher Segal

2017 AP Scholar

Granted to students who receive scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams.

Quinn Allemand Charles Anello Louiza Benhamou

Tiffina Benhamou Emma Biederman Michael Bogaards

William Cotrone Merritt Davie Matthew Frattura

Jonah Fritz David Gray Dan Hauschild

James Hausmann Mia Holtz Matthew Kinloch

Alexander Kostas Taylor Kulik Matthew Lamberson

Juliann Lisovicz Kathryn Liu Katherine Merriman

Erin O'Gorman Greg Olsen Aaron Pacheco

Jaymi Pena Henry Perazza Julian Reda

Kevin Richardson Kathryn Sargent Olivia Schwern

Robert Silvera Margaret Smith Alyssa Smolen

Nell Steinmetz Jennifer Testa Nicholas Vecchione

Erin Vogel Daniel Wenzl Lyla Wotring Jessie Zuiderveld

Honors & Awards

Glen Ridge High School was named a Gold medal winner in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools Rankings. Using their criteria, Glen Ridge High School was ranked the 14th best high school in New Jersey and 317th in the nation.

Additional information about the rankings can be found here.

National Center for Women in Informational Technology

Two Glen Ridge High School eleventh-grade students, Kathryn Sargent and Louisa Benhamou, received the Honor Mention Award for the National Center for Women in Information Technology for their achievement and involvement in computing. NCWIT's mission is to increase the meaningful participation of women in computing.

America’s Most Challenging High Schools

Congratulations to Glen Ridge High School for being named one of America’s Most Challenging High Schools by The Washington Post. The ranking is derived from a formula that compares the number of Advance Placement, International Baccalaureate, and Advanced International Certificate of Education exams to the number of graduating seniors. In the 2017 ranking, Glen Ridge was ranked 508th in the nation and sixteenth in New Jersey.

New York Time Student Editorial Contest

Erin Chung, an eleventh grader at GRHS, was named a finalist in the New York Time Student Editorial Contest. Erin’s editorial, entitled "Bridging the Racial Gap Among Teachers” was one of nearly 8000 entries that were reviewed.

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