Sports
The Steinert High School Spartans compete in the Colonial Valley Conference, which operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 1,126 students in grades 10 to 12, the school is classified as Central Jersey, Group IV, a category that included schools with enrollment of 1,120 to 2,339 in those three grades.
The 1992 baseball team defeated Hoboken High School, 5-4, to win the NJSIAA Group III State Championship. The squad finished with a 31-1 record, the most wins ever recorded in a season by a Mercer County baseball school. The team was inducted into the Steinert Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.
The 2006 baseball team won the Central, Group IV title, defeating South Brunswick High School 11-4 in the tournament final. The team then moved on to win the state Group IV championship, defeating Randolph High School 4-1 in the final game.
The girls' softball team won the 2004 NJSIAA Group IV State Championship.
In 2007, the field hockey team won the Central Jersey, Group IV state sectional championship with a 1-0 win over Toms River High School South in the tournament final.
In 2007, the girls soccer team won the Central, Group IV state sectional championship with a 1-0 win over Jackson Memorial High School in the tournament final.
In 2011, Steinert's varsity lacrosse team finished its first season with a 6-10 record after being established as a club sport in 2008.
The 2011 football team won the first two rounds of the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III state championship tournament, defeating Wall High School and Woodbridge High School, and will face Neptune High School in the tournament final in the first weekend of December, hoping to become the first team from Mercer County in over three decades to win a sectional football title.
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