HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

New Jersey’s high school sports scene is once again commanding statewide attention as the calendar turns from winter championships to the intensity of spring...

Tonight, as the cool winter air settles over New Jersey, the sky above is graced with an extraordinary natural spectacle—the northern lights. While the aurora borealis is typically seen in more northern latitudes, recent solar activity has led to an unusual display that stretches far south, reaching the Garden State. The green and purple hues shimmer across the night sky, a mesmerizing backdrop for an already electric evening in East Rutherford. As the northern lights dance overhead, down below, one of New Jersey’s most fierce and storied high school football rivalries is unfolding at MetLife Stadium. Bergen Catholic vs. Don Bosco: A Championship Showdown On this remarkable evening, MetLife Stadium becomes the stage for the Non-Public A...

As a kid, Nick Battista wasn’t much of a swimmer. Growing up outside of Buffalo, New York, he loved going to the aquarium and admiring his grandmother’s fish tanks, but on trips to the beach, a fear of sharks kept him from venturing into the water. That changed during the last year of his PhD in mathematics where he studied the fluid dynamics at play in the development of the human heart. His adviser encouraged him to join her in taking up scuba diving so they could draw inspiration from nature and study how fluid dynamics affected other animals. Battista is now an associate professor of mathematics at TCNJ, and he visits the Florida Keys twice a year to...