Paterson Catholic Regional High School was a private four year
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high school
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located in
Paterson, New Jersey
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As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 303 students and 22.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a
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. Accessed June 21, 2011.
Athletics
The sports teams at Paterson Catholic were nicknamed the Cougars, and both the men's and women's teams participated in the
Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League
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. The Cougars had a strong athletic history capturing many league and state titles in different sports and producing many college and professional athletes.
The 1994 boys basketball team won the Non-Public Group B state championship in 1994 with a 65-63 win against runner-up
St. Augustine Preparatory School
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in the tournament final at the
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and went in as the top seed in the Tournament of Champions where they defeated Piscataway High School 66-56 in the semifinals before falling to third seed Orange High School in the finals to finish the season with a record of 26-3.
The girls basketball team won the Non-Public Group B state title in 1999 (defeating St. Joseph High School in the tournament final) and 2009 (vs. Bishop Eustace High School). The team won the 1999 Non-Public B state title with a 46-37 win against St. Joseph of Hammonton, in the first finals appearance for each of the two schools. The 2009 team won the Non-Public B title with a 55-42 win against Bishop Eustace in the championship game played at the Ritacco Center in Toms River.
The football team won the Non-Public Group II state sectional championship in 1999 and 2000, and won the Non-Public I title in 2003, 2005 and 2007-2009. In 1999, the team finished the season with a 10-1 record after winning the Non-Public Group II state sectional title, the program's first since the playoff era started in 1974, with a 34-8 win against
Gloucester Catholic High School
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in the championship game played at Alumni Stadium at
Kean University
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. The 2000 team won the Non-Public Group II title by a score of 11-8 against Gloucester Catholic on a field goal kicked with seconds left in the game. The team's title in 2007 was its fifth since playoffs were instituted in 1974, joining
Wayne Hills High School
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and Passaic High School as one of only three teams in Passaic County to have won five sectional championships.
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for the
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(born 1993), basketball player for
Turów Zgorzelec
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defensive end
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for the
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in the NFL from 1999 to 2002.
* Jordan Theodore (born 1989), professional
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player who currently plays for the
Frankfurt Skyliners
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The Star-Ledger
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'', September 17, 2008. Accessed September 19, 2011. "Darryl Watkins, a standout center at Paterson Catholic who played collegiately at Syracuse, has signed with the San Antonio Spurs, the team announced on its website Wednesday."