{"id":13970,"date":"2017-06-17T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T14:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/?p=13970"},"modified":"2017-06-17T10:33:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T14:33:47","slug":"cn-softball-coach-of-the-year-anthony-rotondo-north-hunterdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/cn-softball-coach-of-the-year-anthony-rotondo-north-hunterdon\/","title":{"rendered":"CN Softball Coach of the Year: Anthony Rotondo, North Hunterdon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Anthony Rotondo isn\u2019t going to feign surprise that the North Hunterdon High School softball team went from sub-.500 also-ran to Group IV state finalist in one offseason.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Lions fourth-year head coach is the first to admit his team\u2019s rebound from a 14-16 campaign \u2013 the program\u2019s first losing season since 2001 \u2013 was something he expected. After all, North had competed in one of the state\u2019s toughest conferences and played a loaded up non-league schedule against some of the state\u2019s top programs last year, winning a few, but losing most, despite playing competitively, sometimes until the final inning.<\/span><\/p>\n

But even the 2017 Courier News Softball Coach of the Year couldn\u2019t have expected how this season would play out, as North Hunterdon finished 24-5, just a game behind Montgomery in the Skyland Conference Raritan Division race, advanced to the final of the Hunterdon\/Warren\/Sussex Tournament, and won the NJSIAA North 2 Group IV championship, falling by a run in the state Group IV final,<\/span><\/p>\n

Click HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to review the article on the Courier News.com. <\/span><\/p>\n

Click HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to review the Courier News All Area Softball Team.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anthony Rotondo isn\u2019t going to feign surprise that the North Hunterdon High School softball team went from sub-.500 also-ran to Group IV state finalist in one offseason. The Lions fourth-year head coach is the first to admit his team\u2019s rebound from a 14-16 campaign \u2013 the program\u2019s first losing season since 2001 \u2013 was something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lion-pride-archive","7":"entry","8":"override"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 16:56:16","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13973,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions\/13973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}