Posts from October 2014

Last Friday the EC XC team participated in The Passaic County Cross Country Championship Meet. The Women finished 8th and the men 10th, both a bit better than expected.  Kelly Bosloper led the team with a 20th place finish, qualifying her for 2nd team status.  Carter Heerema just missed that honor placing 22nd.  On Tues.…

Monday vs Holy Angels was senior day as the team honored captain Lyndsey Smith and classmate Aleah Neishalla. The Eagles defense started slowly , allowing three first half goals but the 2nd half was better, though the girls fell short 3-1. On Tuesday things were different at Garfield as both Lyndsey and Aleah scored along…

The Eastern Christian Athletic Program exists to glorify God by developing Christian character and competitive excellence in its student athletes. This mission creates expectations for all EC athletes to uphold the following six Eagles Athletic Pillars for athletic success: Glorify God (Colossians 3:17a) Strive for Excellence (Colossians 3:23) Exemplify Christian Character (1 Corinthians 6:19b-20) Run the Race to…

In an effort to share more of what goes on at EC with the community, we've started using the EC Athletics Blog in a new way. We will be posting weekly stories of each team, with highlights from the previous week and what's coming up the following week. Don't feel like checking the blog for new stories…

In August the high school weight room was moved into a new space! The work was completed in September and Athletic Director, Barry Veenstra, is excited to finally debut the weight room in this short video. In case you missed the original video at the end of the summer, take a look!

Girls Varsity Tennis finished on the wettest week we had all season. We were very blessed to be able to play almost all of our games on schedule. Our last match I was unsure if we would be able to play. Driving all the way up to Lakeland in the rain and wondering if it…

The wet weather washed away a big game with rival Pompton Lakes this week, but not before the girls dominated Manchester from start to finish with a 4-0 win in the rematch of a game that went to overtime earlier in the season. A nice Monday afternoon crowd was on hand to celebrate win #400…

Family. That's what it was all about at Coach Veenstra's 400th win. After surprise recognition and celebration from his current players, Coach Veenstra was ushered over to the stands where, amongst a standing ovation, he found many members of the extended EC "Soccer Family" through the years. Friends, family, and EC Soccer program alums came in…

Last Monday at the conference championship Meet at Garret Mountain The Boys team finished 7th with 154 points.  Carter Heerema missed first team by one spot with his tenth place finish.  His time of 18:10 was his best ever on the venerable Garret Mountain course.  Along with Carter's 2nd team selection, Will Fan was awarded an…