2004 Cross Country 

Boys Results

Season Highlights:  The team was coached by Jim Schlentz and assisted by Bryan Parks.  The team finished with a dual meet record of 10 wins and 0 losses overall and 6 wins and 0 losses in the B North division of the Shore Conference, which they won.  It was the Cougar's 4th straight division title.  Team highlights included finishing 10th in the State Meet of Champions, 3rd in The Group III State Championships, winning the Central Jersey Group III Championship, the 2nd place finish in the Monmouth County Champs, the 3rd place finish in the Shore Conference Championships, and winning the Freehold District Championships.  Individual highlights included Craig Forys finishing 2nd in the Meet of Champions and breaking the State Sophomore record, winning titles in the Easterns, Shore Conference, Monmouth County, and Freehold District Championships; Zach Tedoff's 10th at the State Group III Champs, 16th in the Shore Conference and 4th place finish at the Freehold District Champs; Joey Schauer 14th in CJ Group III Champs followed by Brenden Krewer and Ryan Jagielski in 19th and 20th; Ian Price 8th in the Freehold District Champs.

Post-Season Highlights:  Craig Forys was named 1st team All-State All-Groups by New Jersey Track and the Star Ledger.  He was named 1st team Group III All-State by the Star Ledger with Zach Tedoff making 2nd team.  Craig was named 1st team All-Shore Conference by the Asbury Park Press and the Shore Coaches Association (as well as Runner of the year for the Shore Conference) with Zach making 3rd team.  Craig was named 1st team All-Monmouth County by the Star Ledger with Zach being named to the 2nd team.  Craig, Zach, Joey Schauer, Brenden Krewer and Ian Price were named 1st team All-Freehold District by the News Transcript.  Ryan Jagielski made honorable mention All-Freehold District.  Coach Jim Schlentz was named Shore Conference Coach of the Year by the Star Ledger and Asbury Park Press.

Best times for 2004:

Holmdel Park Varsity 5000 meter course

Buck Mills Park Varsity 5000 meter course

Holmdel Park Freshman 2.0 mile course

Bucks Mill Freshman 2.0 mile course

Time Trial

Bucks Mill Park  9/07/04

Colts Neck/Rumson @ Matawan

Holmdel Park  9/14/04

Wall/Red Bank @ Colts Neck

Bucks Mill Park  9/20/04

Cougar Inv

@ Bucks Mill Park  09/23/04

Monmouth Reg @ Colts Neck

Bucks Mill Park  9/27/04

Salesianum Inv

@ Brandywine Creek Park, New Castle, DE  10/02/04

Craig Forys moves to 4th on the all-time list at Brandywine Creek State Park running 16:27 over the muddy course.  He is behind only Sharif Karie 15:54 (1996), a 4:03 miler in high school, Alan Webb 16:03 his junior year (1999), a 3:53 high school miler, and Alan Webb 16:26 his soph year.  He went through the sloppy first  mile at 5:01 in 5th place, was 3rd at the top of famous Maintenance Hill, took the lead at about 1.8 miles and won by 28 secs.  Zach Tedoff was 59th at 2 miles and moved all the way up to 19th over the last mostly uphill 1.1miles. 

Varsity Boys
1st	Craig Forys	16:27
19th	Zach Tedoff	18:02
53rd	Joey Schauer	19:06
63rd	Ian Price	19:19
95th	Billy Allan	20:02
100th	Kenny Liu	20:19
125th	Greg Fiasconaro	22:03
231pts	8th place	team average: 18:35.4
			Craig Forys of New Jersey finishes first in the varsity boys class A group Saturday. (courtesy New Journal, DE).

Freehold Boro/Neptune @ Colts Neck

Bucks Mill Park  10/05/04

Freehold District Champs

@ Bucks Mill Park  10/08/04

Craig Forys wins his 2nd straight title (and 4th straight for the Forys family) and the Cougars win their 2nd straight as they dominate with 6 of the first 9 finishers.  Every Cougar finisher won a medal as we also won our first JV Championship and had the 1st 3 finishers in the freshman race as well.  See all results at FRHS Champs results.

Colts Neck/Marlboro @ Freehold Township

Freehold Township HS  10/12/04

Eastern States Champs

@ Van Cortland Park  10/16/04

Craig Forys wins the seeded "A" section of the Eastern States Champs and misses the course sophomore record of 12:29.8 by Olympian John Trautman by 6 secs.

Monmouth County Champs

@ Holmdel Park  10/19/04

Craig Forys becomes the Cougars first Monmouth County Champ as he wins by 26 secs over Eric Schaefer of Wall.  The team finishes 2nd, it's highest finish ever and the team average was a school record by 26 secs.  All of the top 5 Varsity scorers ran PBs 

Colts Neck @ Long Branch

Wolf Hill Recreation Center  10/25/04

The Cougars clinch the Shore Conference B North division championship and finish undefeated.

Central Jersey Group III Champs

@ Holmdel Park  10/30/04

The Cougars win their first Central Jersey championship since 2000 when they were in Group I. They won by just 11 points over Hopewell Valley as they were up by 4 pts coming out of the woods and picked up 7 more down the stretch,  Zach Tedoff accounting for 5 of them.   It was also the last year they won an individual title until Craig Forys won by 19secs.

Shore Conference Champs

@ Ocean County Park  11/06/04

The Cougars got their highest finish ever at this meet by finishing 3rd.  Craig Forys won by 21 seconds to become the Cougars 1st Shore Conference XC champion.  He missed the course record by just 3 secs.  Zach Tedoff had a huge race finishing 16th.

Shore Conference JV/Frosh  Champs

@ Holmdel Park  11/10/04

Group III State Champs

@ Holmdel Park  11/13/04

Team finishes 3rd and advances to Meet of Champions.  Craig Forys is nipped at the finish by Korey Edwards as they run the whole race almost side to side.  Zach Tedoff finishes 10th and breaks the school senior record.  Team sets school record for best team average. 

Meet of Champions

Holmdel Park  11/20/04

Team finishes 10th and averages a smoking 17:00.6, 12 secs faster than the old school record.  Craig Forys breaks the state sophomore record in finishing 2nd in 15:53. A great end to our team's greatest season to this point! 

Footlocker Northeast Champs

@ Van Cortland Park  11/27/04

With Craig Forys nursing a stress reaction in his left leg he hurt the Tues before the State Group Champs, we chose not to take a chance and run him.  Everyone else is focusing on winter track.