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Gogerty Gets A Good Summer Jump Start
As Cedar Grove’s New Head Hoops Coach
By Steve Tober
For sidelinechatter.com
Not only can you indeed go home again and enjoy working at your alma mater, you can continue to grow career-wise there as well, which certainly is the case for Rob Gogerty, the popular former Cedar Grove standout athlete, and four-year Panther football assistant coach, who has been named as the school’s new head boys basketball coach, taking over for Larry Venancio, who retired this past spring after 10 years at the helm, including Gogerty’s senior year in high school.
Already, the former CGHS and University of Maryland, Baltimore County hoops standout is busy during the current summer league and camp circuit guiding his program’s burgeoning court fortunes, engendering a fresh, new energy in relating with the inexperienced team he is inheriting.
And, although a busy July means balancing his dual duties as a coach with both the football and hoops programs, he’s enjoying every minute.
“I am honored and excited to have the chance to coach at my alma mater,” said the 27-year-old Gogerty, a former 4-year collegiate hoops starter at Division I UMBC. “I have been waiting for an opportunity (in basketball) to open, and I believe this a great one!
“I hope to bring a youthful energy, as well as my basketball skill and knowledge back to not only Cedar Grove High School hoops, but the township of Cedar Grove as well.”
Gogerty, who comes from one of the town’s top sports families, could have his work cut out for himself next winter since the Panthers graduated all five starters from a 9-13 team that lost to Cresskill in the first round of the North 1, Group 1 state tournament.
“We’re going to be very inexperienced from a varsity basketball standpoint, but I love the attitude and work ethic of the kids we have playing with us this summer, and I know they’re going to keep progressing as we move closer to the start of official pre-season practice in late November,” said the new Panther head hoops mentor. “We participated in the William Paterson University Team Camp in June, are currently busy playing in the Newark Academy Summer League and we’re also going through individual and skill workouts every Tuesday and Wednesday.”
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