Boys' Cross Country
2002 Coach of the Year
Rich Treonze
Bayonne High School
Bayonne,
New Jersey Impact Statement
Treonze coached Bayonne’s cross country teams for more then three decades.
Biography
Rich Treonze has coached boys and girls cross country, indoor and outdoor track at Bayonne High for nearly three decades. All six teams have won more than their share of Hudson County individual and team titles, and several of his runners and track athletes went on to win titles in the prestigious Penn Relays.
In 2002, this year, his peers in the Hudson County Track Coaches Association inducted Treonze into the Hudson County Track and Field Hall of Fame.
Treonze continued to coach until his retirement.