St. Joseph High School (Hammonton, New Jersey) - Athletics

Athletics

The St. Joseph High School Wildcats compete in the National Division of the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference consisting of both parochial and public high schools located in Atlantic County, Cape May County, Cumberland County, and Gloucester County, that operates under the aegis of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.

The softball team won the 2007 Non-Public South B state sectional championship with a string of shutout victories over Timothy Christian School (15-0), St. Rose High School (6-0) and Gloucester Catholic High School (2-0) in the tournament final.

The wrestling team won the Non-Public, South B sectional title in 2006 with a 45-31 win over Sacred Heart High School in the tournament final.

St. Joseph's football team has won 18 state championships since 1983, including 11 state championships in the 13 years through 2011 and have won three consecutive state championships as of December 2011. State championships have been won in 1977, 1983, 1985, 1989–93, 1996–97, 1999-2006 and 2009-11.

The boy's track team won the South Jersey Non-Public B Sectional Title in 2011 for the first time in school history, edging the Pingry School by a single point after winning the 4x400-meter relay, the final event held at the meet. One week later, the boys won the state championship for the first time ever at South Plainfield High School.

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