My name is Mike Recinto and I am a husband and father of four children; Gabby (16), Sofia (13), Christian (6) and Olivia (4). My girls have been involved with sports since they were little and have developed a love for the game of basketball. Naturally I have become a Girls Basketball Enthusiast. It is my hope to give more exposure to SJ Girls High School Basketball.
Inside Look with Mike Recinto-SJ GBB Podcast Guest Coach Casey Heitman Clearview HS
Episode 36 Coach Casey Heitman was born and raised in Mantua, NJ. She went to Clearview High School and played basketball. It was the relationships that she made in high school that stands out the most in her mind. Back then they enjoyed scrapbooking and clipping news articles to documment important basketball achievements.
After graduating from Clearview, Heitman attended Kings College. She played basketball and worked hard to earn her teaching degree. After graduation she returned back to South Jersey and started working in the West Deptford School District. She got her start by volunteering to coach basketball. Eventually, she earned a position on the coaching staff at West Deptford.
An opportunity opened up and Coach Heitman decided to take a job working in the school district she grew up attending as a student. She joined the coaching staff at her alma mater and after some time was named Head Coach. After experiencing great success in 2020, Clearview is now a young up and coming team. Look out because they will be a force to deal with in the near future.
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8 Mar 2021
Inside Look with Mike Recinto-SJ GBB Podcast Guest Coach Paul Baruffi Ocean City HS
Coach Paul Baruffi grew up in Vineland, NJ. He was the youngest of five kids and the Baruffi Family was well known in that area for athletics. Vineland is surrounded by farmland. Coach Baruffi played point guard and enjoyed his playing days very much. He ultimately became a teacher. Coach Baruffi got his start coaching at his alma mater with his high school coach, Ed Harvard.
Eventually he connected with his college coach who was at Ocean City HS at the time and he went on to become the Head Coach. Coach Baruffi led his team to 8 South Jersey Championships, 1 State and 6 overall Cape Atlantic Championships over the past 20 years. His most successful season to date was 2013, when his team won the Group 3 State Title. He guided his team back to the State Finals in 2020 but the game was never played and the kids missed out on a great experience because of Covid.
This year Coach Baruffi has made the necessary adjustments to prepare his team but ultimately his team was put in quarantine because kids on the opposing team tested positive for Covid. This in combination with the winter weather made a shortened season even shorter. They were happy to return to thw court and play the final two games of the season and the seniors had the opportunity to play their last game for Ocean City High School.
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Music Credit: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nicholas_Mackin/A_Journey/04Nicholas_Mackin-Ellinor-A_Journey_II-A_Journey-SLC41_Soisloscerdos
3 Mar 2021
Inside Look with Mike Recinto-SJ GBB Podcast Guest Coach Brandon Lyons Woodstown HS
Coach Brandon Lyons is in his fourth year as Head Coach at Woodstown High School. He wass born and raised in South Jersey. He lived in Franklinville and attended Delsea High School. He loved playing sports growing up. He got the opportunity to play a variety of sports. He realized that he enjoyed working with kids, so after graduating high school he went on to study Exercise Science with a focus on earning his teaching degree. He got his start coaching while he was still in college. One day he had a prep period and asked if he could go to the gym and shoot some hoops. While he was shooting he was approached and asked to coach middle school basketball. Coach Lyons took advantage of this opportunity to learn as much as he could. After years of volunteering and working as an assistant, he got a job working in the Woodstown High School. Immediately, he approached the boys coach to get involved with coaching. Soon after, the girls job opened uo and he was named the Head Coach of the Woodstown High School Girls Basketball Team. And as they say, the rest is history.
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Music Credit: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nicholas_Mackin/A_Journey/04Nicholas_Mackin-Ellinor-A_Journey_II-A_Journey-SLC41_Soisloscerdos
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