EC Blog

In August the high school weight room was moved into a new space! The work was completed in September and Athletic Director, Barry Veenstra, is excited to finally debut the weight room in this short video. In case you missed the original video at the end of the summer, take a look!

Girls Varsity Tennis finished on the wettest week we had all season. We were very blessed to be able to play almost all of our games on schedule. Our last match I was unsure if we would be able to play. Driving all the way up to Lakeland in the rain and wondering if it…

The wet weather washed away a big game with rival Pompton Lakes this week, but not before the girls dominated Manchester from start to finish with a 4-0 win in the rematch of a game that went to overtime earlier in the season. A nice Monday afternoon crowd was on hand to celebrate win #400…

Family. That's what it was all about at Coach Veenstra's 400th win. After surprise recognition and celebration from his current players, Coach Veenstra was ushered over to the stands where, amongst a standing ovation, he found many members of the extended EC "Soccer Family" through the years. Friends, family, and EC Soccer program alums came in…

Last Monday at the conference championship Meet at Garret Mountain The Boys team finished 7th with 154 points.  Carter Heerema missed first team by one spot with his tenth place finish.  His time of 18:10 was his best ever on the venerable Garret Mountain course.  Along with Carter's 2nd team selection, Will Fan was awarded an…

Eastern Christian High School Girls Varsity Soccer Coach Barry Veenstra has earned 400 career wins! With today's victory over Manchester Regional, Veenstra now stands in uncharted territory as Pasaaic County's lone member of the prestigious "400 wins club" for soccer. To say that Barry Veenstra coaches the girls soccer team at Eastern Christian school is the understatement of…

EC's Varsity Girls Volleyball team had a tough week of losses. The ladies had a close loss against Lodion Tuesday, followed by a loss in the county quarterfinals against the top-seeded Clifton. Junior libero Nicole Aoki kept Thursday's game verse Elmwood Park close with some crucial serve-receive plays. Senior setter Jayna Van Buiten had a…

We started off the week with the potential of having to play four matches in a row but ended with two matches between Rutherford and Pompton Lakes. We took a sad loss against Rutherford because our first singles, Blair Bohuny, is playing injured with a terrible bruise on her left hand which is very painful…

In their last night game at Willow, seniors Lyndsey Smith and Aleah Nieshalla led a strong defensive effort in front of sophomore goalkeeper Brooke Van Lenten as the team picked up their 5th shutout of the season and 8th win, a 2-0 decision over Rutherford. Erin Vander Plaat’s 25 yard bomb opened the scoring and…