Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Fair Lawn High School hockey coach Brack Healy has accepted the head coaching job at Bergen Catholic after three years behind the bench for the Cutters.
After three years at the helm of the Fair Lawn High School hockey team, head coach Brack Healy is moving on. Healy, 28, resigned over the weekend to accept a head coaching position at Bergen Catholic. "This is not a decision I took lightly," Healy wrote in a resignation letter obtained by Patch. "In fact, it was one of the toughest ones that I have had to make. I am very grateful for my time in Fair Lawn and I appreciate all of the support that I have received over the years." Healy was brought in to improve a scuffling Fair Lawn team in 2010, fresh off leading Montclair Kimberley Academy to its first state playoff victory in 15 years and being named NJ Power Ranking's Coach of the Year. He compiled a 35-32-7 record during his tenure at …
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The Fair Lawn High School hockey team, which finished with more wins than any Cutters' team since 2008, should be just as good or better next year.
The high school's varsity ice hockey program continued its steady resurgence this season under third-year coach Brack Healy. Fair Lawn notched more wins than any Cutters' team since 2008, finishing third in the nine-team Big North Gold Division with a 14-8-1 record. They lost 4-1 to Hillsborough in the first-round of the state playoffs. "I was very proud of how our guys battled the entire season," Healy said. "Last year we fell off at the end, but this year the guys finished strong and were extremely competitive in the season ending loss to No. 11 Hillsborough." The team graduates three key senior leaders in center Kevin Carney (16 goals, 15 assists), defenseman Sean Milnes (5 goals, 14 assists) and Thomas Calderone (11 goals, 4 assists), …
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Coach Brack Healy thinks this year's Fair Lawn High School ice hockey team has the potential to be compete with the elite of the Big North Gold Division.
Fair Lawn's hockey team may be just 1-1 after two games -- a shutout win over division doormat Dumont on Saturday and a 4-2 loss to powerhouse Paramus Catholic on Monday -- but coach Brack Healy thinks this might be the best squad he's had in his three years at the helm of the hockey program. The Cutters boast a dynamic scorer in junior Justin Ritter, an up-and-coming goaltender in sophomore Garret Baldacci and a seasoned core of senior leaders at both ends of the ice, headlined by center Kevin Carney and defenseman Sean Milnes. "This year's team has a lot of carry-overs from last year and I expect us to be very competitive within the division," Healy said Tuesday. "Ridgewood and PC seem to be the top two teams, but unlike previous years, …
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The Fair Lawn High School hockey team finished with a 10-14-1 record this school year.
Squarely a middle of the pack team this year, Fair Lawn’s hockey squad beat up on the division’s bottom dwellers but struggled to compete against its heavyweights. They were nothing if not predictable. The Cutters, who finished fifth in their nine-team division (10-14-1, 7-8-1), never lost a game to the four teams that finished below them, but also failed to register a win against the four teams that beat them out in the standings. Second-year coach Brack Healy said he was pleased with his team’s resolve this year, but expects bigger and better things in the future. “We return our core group of players and I expect us to have a more competitive team next year,” said Healy, whose Cutters accomplished two of the team’s three preseason goals…
Monday, February 6, 2012
Your home for Fair Lawn High School Hockey
Game Notes: 2/4: The Cutters got hat tricks from sophomore forward Justin Ritter and junior Thomas Calderone in a 7-2 laugher against Bayonne on Saturday. Junior Kevin Carney had a career-high five assists. Senior goalkeeper Josh Sarna picked up the victory in net. 1/29: Fair Lawn cruised to a 5-1 victory over River Dell at The Ice House Sunday night. The Cutters jumped out to an early lead with goals from Kevin Carney and Mark Williams, and finished the first period up 2-0. In the second, River Dell scored on the power play to cut it to a one-gal game, but just seconds later Cutters' sophomore Justin Ritter responded on assists from Jon Polyak and Kevin Carney to bring the lead back to two goals. Polyak added a power-play goal in the …
Monday, January 30, 2012
Fair Lawn improves to 9-7-1 on the season
HACKENSACK—They may have opened the season at 1-11, but the concept of having nothing left to play for is one that’s lost on the River Dell hockey team. Entering Sunday night’s rematch with Fair Lawn, the Golden Hawks were riding high with wins in two of their previous four games. River Dell was eager for a second crack at a team that had only beaten them 1-0 on the opening night of the season, but couldn’t overcome two Fair Lawn goals in a 16-second span of the first period, and dropped a 5-1 decision at the Ice House to fall to 3-16 on the season. “It’s been a tough season, but we haven’t given up yet and we’re not going to,” said senior co-captain Mark Schaefer. “We didn’t play to the same level we did on opening night [against Fair …
Friday, December 9, 2011
The Cutters take on Bayonne Friday night at 7:15
Don’t let Brack Healy’s age fool you. At 27, the Cutters’ second-year head coach has already been behind the bench for eight years – four of them leading a high school varsity squad. A member of NJSIAA’s prestigious 100 Point Club as a player, Healy starred under Bruce Parker at Montclair High School, then skated briefly for Division-III Rowan before calling it a career and transferring to Montclair State University to focus on teaching and coaching. Healy spent five years as an assistant at Montclair High School before landing his first head coaching gig at West Orange. After a year at West Orange, he was hired to lead Montclair Kimberley Academy. In his first season at MKA, Healy took a team that had finished 6-19 the year before to its …
Monday, December 5, 2011
The Fair Lawn High School hockey team is looking to build on its solid season last year and make a run at a division crown in 2011-2012
Having lost only a handful of seniors from last year’s 11-10-5 squad that made the state playoffs, Fair Lawn’s hockey team and its second-year head coach Brack Healy have high hopes heading into this season. Healy expects the Cutters to finish in the top half of the nine-team Big North Gold Division. Possibly higher if all goes right. “If everything falls into place we could surprise a lot of teams and be a dark horse to win our division,” Healy wrote in an email. The Cutters didn’t disappoint in their first regular season action over the weekend, notching victories against Dumont on Friday and River Dell on Saturday, thanks to stellar netminding from senior Josh Sarna and timely third period goals by senior captain Matt Hearon (against …
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3:32 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013
Its nice to see we lost him to a private school. Maybe its time we empower ALL of Fair Lawn's kids to attend private school. Or at the very least privatize the hockey and other sports programs so our kids have a chance of having the best coaches money can buy. more ›