Heights Teams Up with Old Tappan on the Ice

This fall six hockey players from Hasbrouck Heights High School will take to the ice as part of a coop team with Northern Valley Regional High School in Old Tappan.

Through this coop team the players from Heights have an opportunity to play the sports through their high school while Old Tappan is able to add players to its team which it needs to as a result of many members graduating this year, according to NorthJersey.com

Mike Scuilla, Hasbrouck Heights athletic director, tells Patch there had been talks over the past year or more about the possibliity of developing an ice hockey. He had been approached by parents about the possiblities of an interscholastic team.

Scuila says thanks to a waiver by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association which now allows schools to coop with more than one school, he was able to pursue a coop ice hockey team. Heights already coops with Wood-Ridge for a number of sports teams and there had been no interest from them in joining them for an ice hockey team, says Scuilla.

The waiver opened up new possibilities.

"I started to reach out to a few group 3 schools that had ice hockey. A few school responded that they would take us. Old Tappan offered the best total package for our student athletes," said Scuilla.

Both practices and home games will be conducted nearby in Hackensack at the Ice House, says Scuilla.

The season will begin Nov. 15.

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