Coach of the Year

Fulfilling a lifelong dream, Jeff Rainess crafted a football renaissance at Holmdel that yielded a divisional championship and its first winning season in over a decade.

Under second-year coach John Terlecsky, for the first time in the history of its accomplished history, the Ocean boys soccer team won every title on the table.

Christian Brothers Academy's Dave Santos is the 2018 SSN Boys Lacrosse Coach of the Year.

After two uncharacteristically down seasons, Jackson Memorial returned to the top of the Shore with a group of team-first players that bought into coach Frank Malta's vision.

Relatable to each player, diligent in preparation and a champion from her playing days to her current position, Lisa Kukoda is the SSN Coach of the Year

Point Boro's Matt Cilento has been selected as the 2017 Shore Sports Network Football Coach of the Year.

Holmdel head coach John Nacarlo is the 2017 Shore Sports Network Boys Soccer Coach of the Year.

A little more than two years ago, Keith Cocuzza became a varsity baseball coach for the first time when he took a difficult job under difficult circumstances. When Cocuzza took the reins at Southern Regional with just a handful of games left in the 2015 season, the Rams just had one of their biggest wins in years – and first-round Ocean County Tournament win over top-seeded Toms River North – wipe

John Gagliano usually deflects any praise directed his way, and that didn't change following the greatest season in the history of Howell's wrestling program. There was plenty of congratulations to go around for Gagliano, the 2017 Shore Sports Network Coach of the Year, who guided the Rebels to heights previously unreached...

Joe Whalen did not take over the St. Rose girls basketball program to turn an also-ran into a competitive team or even a competitive team into a championship contender. He took over a championship team in order to keep it a championship team year after year...

It’s not every year that a boys basketball team at Marlboro enters the year with the expectations the Mustangs had for themselves in 2016-17. The program had not won a Class A North championships since the early 1970’s, had never been past the round of 16 in the Shore Conference Tournament and had never won an NJSIAA sectional title, but the returning talent suggested this year could put an end to

The first two years of Dan Curcione’s head-coaching tenure at Wall didn’t exactly go as planned, but all along he knew this season’s group of seniors had the goods to return the program to glory. After going 3-7 in 2014 and 4-6 last season, Wall returned to the promised land this fall by going 10-2 and claiming the NJSIAA South Jersey Group III title, the program’s first state championships since