North Brunswick Township High School - Athletics

Athletics

NBTHS is a member of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) and competes in the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC). With 1,369 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2011-12 school year for most sports as Central Jersey Group IV, a category that included schools with enrollment of 1,120 to 2,339.

NBTHS has a wide range of athletic facilities, available to both its student body and the North Brunswick community. With over six multipurpose athletic fields, a six-lane track, a football stadium, five tennis courts, a gymnasium that seats over 1,500 people, and three multipurpose baseball/softball diamonds, the school has long been considered one of the premier athletic facilities in the county. Furthermore, the school is one of the only GMC members that has a six-lane indoor swimming pool, and has thus frequently been the host of GMC Championships and state sectional meets. Annually, the school's boys’ soccer and girls’ swimming teams are among the stronger representatives of the school's athletics, with which numerous state championships have been captured over the last decade.The girls swim team was undefeated in the 2007-08 season, in addition to being the GMC champions.The school also fields teams in football, girls’ soccer, boys and girls’ tennis, boys and girls’ basketball, baseball, softball, boys and girls’ lacrosse, boys’ swimming, diving, boys and girls’ winter and spring track and field, cross-country, gymnastics, wrestling, and golf. Volleyball was introduced in the 2005-06 season. The school's main rivals include the New Brunswick High School Zebras, East Brunswick High School Bears and the South Brunswick High School Vikings.

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