Sports
The Eastern High School Vikings participate in the Olympic Conference, which consists of public and private high schools located in Burlington County and Camden County, and operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 1,575 students in grades 10 to 12, the school is classified as South Jersey Group IV, a category that includes schools with enrollment of 1,135 to 1,946 in those three grades.
Eastern High School also has a separate ice hockey club that, while not officially affiliated with the school, is a member of the South Jersey High School Ice Hockey League.
The girls volleyball team won the Group IV state championship in 2001, defeating Hunterdon Central Regional High School by 15-7 and 15-11, after losing to Hackensack High School in the Group IV final in 2000.
The girls varsity soccer team won back-to-back Group IV state championships in 2005 and 2006. In 2005, they won the Group IV South sectional championship over Toms River High School East 1-0. The team then went on to win the state championship game by a score of 2-0 over Roxbury High School. The team repeated in 2006, defeating Washington Township High School 2-0 in the Group IV South sectional championship, and defeating North Hunterdon High School to capture the 2006 Group IV State Championship.
The football team won the NJSIAA South Jersey Group IV state sectional championship in 2003. Eastern has had a very consistent football team winning the South Jersey, Group IV title with a 14-7 win against Washington Township High School in 2003 and competing in the playoffs six out of eight years after winning their first state sectional title.
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