Athletics
The Manalapan High School Braves compete in the Shore Conference, an athletic conference made up of private and public high schools centered at the Northern Jersey Shore in Monmouth County and Ocean County. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.
Manalapan's bowling team were the winners of the 2005-06 NJSIAA State Championship. The Brave's score of 2,840 defeated runner-up Woodbridge High School (2,830) at Carolier Lanes.
In 2007, the boys soccer team won the Central Jersey Group IV state sectional championship with a 1-0 win over Howell High School in the tournament final. The team moved on to share the Group IV state championship with a 1-1 tie against Clifton High School.
In 2008, Robby Andrews won the NJSIAA Meet of Champions in the 800m run. He followed this up with the 1600m Group IV state championship in the 1600m run. Additionally he placed second in both the Millrose Games and Penn Relays, participating in the mile run on both occasions. In 2009, Robby Andrews won the Meet of Champions in the 800m run, set two national records in the 1000m and 800m runs, won the Millrose Games and won two national championships.
In 2010, Manalapan student Lawrence Maceren set a new Sport stacking World Record in the 3-3-3 stack with 1.80 seconds.
The 2011 baseball team finished the season with a record of 29-3 and won the Group IV state championship with a 29-14 victory against Westfield High School in which the team pounded out 32 hits on way to the program's first state title.
The 2011 field hockey team was coached by Joel Rivlin and went on to have the best record in over a decade.
The school has a longstanding athletic rivalry with Marlboro High School, another school in the Freehold Regional High School District, which includes a longstanding Thanksgiving Day football matchup between the teams.
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