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St. John Vianney High School (New Jersey)

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Type
  
Private, Coeducational

Patron saint(s)
  
Saint John Vianney

President
  
Joseph Deroba

Number of students
  
1,011 (2013–2014)

Religious affiliation(s)
  
Roman Catholic

Established
  
1969

Phone
  
+1 732-739-0800

Colors
  
Black, White, Gold

Motto
  
Knowledge - Commitment - Involvement

Address
  
540-A Line Rd, Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA

School district
  
Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton

Similar
  
Red Bank Catholic High Sch, Christian Brothers Academy, Holmdel High School, Monmouth Regional High Sch, Matawan Regional High Sch

Profiles

St. John Vianney High School is a private coeducational Roman Catholic four-year high school, serving students in grades nine through twelve. The school is located on a 38-acre (150,000 m2) campus in Holmdel Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and is operated under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1983.

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As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,011 students and 61.6 faculty members (on an FTE basis), resulting in a student–teacher ratio of 16.4:1.

The school motto is "Knowledge – Commitment – Involvement". The St. John Vianney High School Lancers wear the school colors of Gold, White and Black.

Education

Saint John Vianney High School offers its students block scheduling. Block schedules enrolls students in four courses each semester that meet every day for 90 days. Each of the four blocks lasts 77 minutes. All students and staff have the same lunch/activity period in the middle of the day.

Athletics

The St. John Vianney High School Lancers compete in the Shore Conference, an athletic conference made up of private and public high schools centered at the Northern Jersey Shore. All schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County and Ocean County. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).

The 2000 girls' soccer team won the Parochial South A state championship, defeating Holy Cross High School 4-0 in the tournament final.

The softball team won the 2002 Parochial South A sectional championship with a 3-2 win over Red Bank Catholic High School. The 2004 team repeated the sectional championship, with a 5-0 shutout of Red Bank Catholic High School and moved on to win the Group A State Championship with a 1-0 win over Mount Saint Dominic Academy, the lone run coming in the bottom of the seventh due to an error on a bunt that allowed a runner to score from second base. The 2004 team finished the season with a perfect 33-0 record, setting the state mark for the number of wins in a season by a girls softball team, and gave the Lady Lancers three state titles in four years, the only exception being an extra innings loss in the 2003 tournament final to Immaculate Heart Academy.

In 2005, the girls' basketball team won the Non-Public, South A title over Red Bank Catholic High School, 51-39. The team moved on to the Group Championship, defeating Roselle Catholic High School to earn the state group championship. The team advanced to the finals of the 2005 Girls Basketball Tournament of Champions, falling to Woodrow Wilson High School, 64-45.

In 2008, the girls' basketball team won the Parochial A State Championship and moved on to lose in the Tournament of Champions semifinals to Malcolm X Shabazz High School by a score of 75-35.

In 2009, the Lady Lancer basketball team, led by Coach Dawn Karpell, was ranked #1 in the New York Metropolitan region by the MSG network after winning NJSIAA Non-Public A and their record sixth Tournament of Champions title, defeating Colts Neck High School by a score of 56-44 in the tournament final.

The Lady Lancer basketball team won the 2010 NJSIAA Non-Public A state title and finished the season as the #2 ranked team in the state by The Star-Ledger after a 53-39 win over Immaculate Heart Academy that marked the team's 13th victory in a Non-Public A final with no defeats. The Lady Lancers lost to Neptune High School by a score of 67-48 in the finals of the Tournament of Champions at the Izod Center.

The Lady Lancer softball team, led by Coach Kim Lombardi, won the 2010 NJSIAA Non-Public A state title with a 4-1 victory over Paramus Catholic High School, the program's fourth state title and its first since 2004, finishing the season as the #2 ranked team in the state by The Star-Ledger.

In 2010, St. John Vianney's Lady Lancers became the first school to win NJSIAA Non-Public A state girls' basketball and softball championships in the same school year.

In 2014, St. John Vianney's baseball team defeated Gloucester Catholic High School by a score of 3-2 to win the NJSIAA Non-Public South A sectional final and won the state Non-Public A title as an 8 seed in their own section when they defeated St. Joseph Regional High School of Montvale, the representative from North A by a score of 3-1 in the state championship gane.

Nine girls from this school were featured on an episode of Project Runway in 2008, in which each designer was asked to create a modern prom dress for each girl.

Notable alumni

  • Robert D. Clifton, former mayor of Matawan, New Jersey and current member of the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders.
  • Pamela Day, contestant on the second season of The Apprentice.
  • Terry Deitz (born 1959), third-place finisher on Survivor: Panama.
  • Jim Hunter, sports announcer, currently with the Baltimore Orioles baseball team.
  • Evan Louro (born 1996), soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for the New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.
  • Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (born 1978), actress.
  • References

    St. John Vianney High School (New Jersey) Wikipedia