Friday, February 8, 2013
Collingswood earned a No. 16 seed and will open up against No. 1 Haddonfield.
When the NJSIAA released the South Jersey Group 2 boys basketball playoff brackets today it left the Collingswood High School Panthers with a good news/bad news scenario. The good news is that a young Collingswood team found enough success to reach the playoffs. The bad news is that it is a No. 16 seed and will be pitted against a team with which it has struggled mightily. The Panthers (6-15) will open up the playoffs against No. 1 Haddonfield on Monday, Feb 25. The Bulldawgs have had their number of late, going 2-0 against the Panthers this season, including a 61-35 victory on Thursday. If Collingswood is able to defy the odds and advance to the quarterfinals it will meet the winner of No. 8 Willingboro/No. 9 Pemberton. Other top seeds in…
Friday, January 4, 2013
A slow start doomed the Collingswood High School boys' basketball team in a 64-47 loss to West Deptford.
Slow starts have been an unfortunate trend for the Collingswood High School boys' basketball team this season. By contrast, fast starts have been the calling card for the West Deptford Eagles this season. So when the two teams met Thursday, it came as little surprise that it was West Deptford who came out of the gate quickly, and Collingswood who came out flat. In this case, the Panthers started much too flat. The Eagles jumped out to a 18-4 lead and cruised to a 64-47 win over Collingswood in Colonial Conference Liberty Division action. The Panthers clawed their way back into the game in the fourth quarter, cutting a 24-point deficit down to 13, but had dug far too deep of a hole to ever seriously threaten the Eagles. “We have been doing …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
After shelving its winningest basketball coach, Joe McLoughlin, Collingswood pins its hopes on former assistant Patrick Dorney, who joins the team after nine years at Arcadia University.
After an ugly and public falling-out with the winningest coach in team history, the Collingswood High School boys basketball team is hoping to turn the page with new coach, Patrick Dorney. To do that, Dorney—a one-time CHS assistant coach (1995-2000) who's spent the past nine years coaching the Arcadia University men's basketball team—will have to return to his roots. Coaching college is coaching the game; coaching high school is coaching fundamentals, and that's going to take some time to get used to. “The biggest difference is with my 15-man roster at Arcadia University [is] 11 or 12 of the kids were the best player on their high school team,” Dorney said. “You don’t have to work on things like footwork, off-the-ball movement and screens…
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Correspondence between the Collingswood superintendent and his estranged high school basketball coach glimpse a relationship that was turning rocky in early 2012.
Even if an independent investigation confirms that former Collingswood High School boys' basketball coach Joseph McLoughlin was ordered to field a team along racial lines, those findings would be insufficient to overturn his dismissal, Superintendent Scott Oswald told Patch today. The Collingswood superintendent was steadfast in his insistence that McLoughlin had been informed of the reasons for his nonrenewal prior to the June Board of Education meeting, and that none of them was related to any suspicion of administrative or racial bias. “The decision about the coaching position is a separate issue,” Oswald said. “I’m the guy who knows all the reasons the decisions were made. There was not one notion that has anything to do with the …
Monday, July 30, 2012
Under new coach Patrick Dorney, the Collingswood High School boys' basketball team goes 2-1 at the St. Augustine Prep open invitational this weekend.
At the St. Augustine Open Invitational this weekend, the 2012-13 Collingswood High School boys' basketball team got its first crack at this year’s action, and emerged from pool play with a 2-1 record. According to assistant coach Michael McKeown, the Panthers gave a good accounting of themselves. They blew out an inferior Cumberland team 71-42, dropped a narrow decision to Clearview Regional, 47-42, and slid past Wildwood Catholic 44-43 on a last-second layup. For their efforts, the boys earned camaraderie, pizza and a chance to reorganize under newly appointed coach Patrick Dorney. Dorney replaced Joseph McLoughlin, the long-serving special education teacher whose public fallout with the Collingswood Board of Education has been a focal …
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The Haddonfield Commissioner was retained by the Collingswood Board of Education to see whether coach Joseph McLoughlin uncovered bias issues in the school system.
Although they clamored for answers, those attending the Monday night meeting of the Collingswood Board of Education will have to wait longer still to learn whether there is any substance to rumors of racial discrimination surrounding the Collingswood High School (CHS) athletic department. The issue came to the fore in a meeting that was diverted from discussions of a new teacher’s union contract, end-of-year reports, and the approval of a new math curriculum to address the replacement of long-term CHS boys’ basketball coach Joseph McLoughlin. His supporters claim that McLoughlin was a victim of principle who refused to comply with unjust directives to field a predominantly white basketball team. Acting on the recommendation of …
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
After hours of testimonials from supporters of the long-tenured coach, Collingswood's school board upheld the recommendation it had tabled at its May meeting to replace him.
It felt less like a school board meeting and more like the closing moments of It’s a Wonderful Life, but when it was all over, there was no happy ending for Collingswood High School (CHS) boys' basketball coach Joseph McLoughlin or any of his numerous supporters. By the end of its meeting Monday night, the Collingswood Board of Education had a room of constituents crying out, “Shame on you,” while NBC-10 camera crews waited on the steps of Zane North Elementary School to interview the principal speakers. The board unanimously approved its roster of high school athletic coaches for 2012-13, and for the first time in years, McLoughlin’s name was not on the list. To the nearly 100 people gathered, that was the most important item approved on …
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Friday, June 1, 2012
In the absence of official comments from the boys' basketball coach, principal, or athletic director, former players and parents are trying to fill in the blanks.
Three days after a parade of his supporters used the public comment portion of the Collingswood school board meeting to voice their opposition to the replacement of boys’ basketball coach Joseph McLoughlin, the man himself remains silent on the issue. Repeated attempts by Collingswood Patch to contact McLoughlin both directly and through intermediaries have been unsuccessful. Similarly, calls to Collingswood High School (CHS) principal Ed Hill and athletic director Ron Hamrick have not been returned. In the absence of answers, observers have been left to speculate about the rift between the 14-year coach and the administration that two years ago named him one of its teachers of the year. The most nefarious accusations—that McLoughlin …
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Morris Smith, a Collingswood attorney, says he assisted Joe McLoughlin all season as a volunteer coach and didn't see any grounds for taking away his clipboard.
Morris Smith characterizes Joseph McLoughlin as a coach who “never wore the basketball thing on his sleeve” and “doesn’t walk around in a track suit with a whistle.” The two have worked together for years, Smith says, helping Collingswood High School student-athletes with everything from finding summer jobs to navigating the college applications process. It wasn’t until this year, however, that he took McLoughlin up on a longstanding offer to be his (volunteer) assistant coach. “I saw the entire season from beginning to end,” Smith says. “I was at all but one or two practices, and all but one game." That’s why, he says he “confident that there is not a performance issue” that would justify removing McLoughlin as the CHS boys' basketball …
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
A move to replace the long-time coach was condemned by parents and former players, who flooded the public comment portion of the meeting with testimonials.
In an evening that had been set aside for the recognition of Collingswood Teachers of the Year and the achievements of their students, the Board of Education instead heard a succession of testimonials in defense of boys' high school basketball coach Joseph McLoughlin. After the awards were presented, supporters of McLoughlin appeared in droves to condemn an agenda item that would have replaced the long-term basketball coach. The first and most inflammatory remarks were made by Collingswood resident Blackwell Albertson, the father of a developmentally disabled student who served as a water boy to the Panther basketball team. Albertson alleged explicitly that McLoughlin was to be dismissed because he "would not follow the directives of this …
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CollsFan
12:04 am on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Running into the ground? Wow let West Deptford know that....they would have been happy for the "heads up" ha! GREAT WIN BOYS!!! more ›