Athletics
The Pascack Valley High School Indians now compete in the Big North Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Prior to the realignment in 2010, the school had participated in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League. There are 10 boys interscholastic sports activities and seven girls interscholastic sports activities. Sports offered include cheerleading, dance, cross-country, football, boys' soccer, girls' soccer, tennis, volleyball, gymnastics, basketball, bowling, ice hockey, swimming, wrestling, winter track, baseball, softball, and lacrosse. The school has had considerable success in basketball and football.
The girls' basketball team, led since 1972 by New Jersey's winningest girls basketball coach, Jeff Jasper, has won 30 consecutive league titles (1979 through 2008), and seven county championships to go along with multiple state titles. On March 9, 2008, the Indians won the Group II State title with a 58-52 win against Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, qualifying for the state Tournament of Champions, and giving Jasper the 800th coaching victory. Jasper was inducted by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association into its Bollinger High School Hall of Fame in 2006. The 2010 girls basketball team was NBIL champions and won the North I, Group III state sectional title, defeating top-seed Teaneck High School 51-47.
The football team, coached by Craig Neilsen, has enjoyed recent success, including state playoff berths each year from 2004 through 2011 along with state finals appearances in 2006 and 2007.
The Baseball team also won the 2010 Bergen County Championship.
The Pascack Valley Regional gymnastics team won state titles in 2008 and 2009, and was selected by the Record as Team of the Year in 2009.
The Pascack Valley Regional Dance Team has been the National Grand Champions for the past two years at the National Dance Alliance Championship. In 2007 they were state champions as well. The Pascack Valley Regional Dance Team was on the cover of the February 2008 issue of The Record's Sports Magazine. In 2008 they took home two first place trophies in the Large Pom & Small Team Performance categories at the NDA National Championship. They were state champions in 2008 as well.
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