The fourth annual Peak Performance and Sports Development Seminar will be held 7:15-9 p.m. Tuesday at Marlboro High School in the school auditorium. Topics of discussion include steroids, supplements, peer pressure, peak performance, goal-setting, sports injuries, sports profiles and résumés, sports focus, and getting 110 percent from the athletes in 2002.
Among the scheduled speakers are Dr. Joseph Cilea, D.C.; Ronnie Knittel, Marlboro High School students assistance counselor; Nancy Horowitz, director of education and prevention services at Discovery Institute for Addictive Disorders; and Christopher Tarver, executive director, Icon Sports Inc.
Marlboro’s Ralph Russo, 14, won the Class III Optional Division all-around championship at the 26th annual New Jersey Men’s State Gymnastics Championships held at Clifton High School. Russo’s AA score was 50.2, and it included two individual victories. Russo, who represented Surgent’s Elite School of Gymnastics in Roselle Park, won the floor exercise (9.0 and still rings (8.5). He was runner-up on the pommel horse (7.7) and was third on the high bar (7.3) and seventh on the vault (8.3). Russo was the 2001 Class III Gymnastics champion as well.
Manalapan’s Anthony Accardi, 14, who also competes for Surgent’s, was sixth in the all-around. His best events were the floor (8.2) and vault (8.6), where he won third-place bronze medals. He was fourth on the horse (7.1), seventh on the bars (7.5) and ninth on the rings (7.4).
Russo and Accardi have qualified for the Regional Championships at Parkettes National Training Center, Allentown, Pa., where they will look to qualify for the Nationals to be held in San Diego, Calif., in May. Matt Stevenson, Stan Dobrydnio and Jim Surgent coach Surgent’s Class III boys’ team.
The Jersey Storm, an U-12 select traveling baseball team from Central Jersey, won the third annual March in the Park Tournament held in Reading, Pa. The Storm defeated teams from Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York while compiling a 5-0 record. The win earned the team automatic berths to the East Coast Tournament Baseball World Series and state USSSA Finals this summer. Ranked No. 1 in New Jersey by pre-season polls by USA Sport Ranking, the Storm are: Marc Asta, John Bannon, Lee Cavico, Joe Connors, Joe Cudia, Kyle Mulvanerton, Craig Peterson, Anthony Ranaudo, Chris Saray, Bill Simcox and Nick Turano. The coaches are Dave Asta, Al Magliaro, Andy Lamboy and John Mulvanerton; John Flanagan is the manager.
The Colonial Youth Track Club will hold registration from 6:30-7:30 p.m. April 10 and 11 at Freehold Borough High School. There is no residency requirement for the club which is for boys and girls ages 5-14. Fee is $25. Call Jimmy at (732) 577-8310 for more information.
The Just for Girls Basketball Camp will be held at Manalapan High School from Monday through April 12 from 5-7 p.m. The camp is for girls ages 9-14. For more information, call Jim at (732) 577-1972. Girls must register in advance to attend the camp.