Coach Morgenroth has been coaching the Hillbillies since 2002. Prior to coming to Verona, Coach Morgenroth coached as a varsity assistant for both Livingston and New Providence High schools where he coached several state qualifiers and 1999 state Champion Donnie Difillippis. Since coming to the Hillbillies Coach Morgenroth has had several district champs, district place winners and region place winners, as well as two county finalists. Over his seventeen years of coaching high school wrestling he believes that the success of the programs that he has coached came from the tremendous involvement of the feeder programs' coaches. Verona's junior program is as good as any and as the result of hard work from the youth coaches the varsity program has made the step to the next level in high school wrestling.
This is Coach Alessio's third season as an assistant coach for the Hillbillies.
Prior to that, he was an assistant coach at Westfield H.S from 1991 to 1997 and Head Coach at Glen Rock and Bogota High Schools.
John started his wrestling career at Nutley High School where he was a 3 year varsity letter winner and qualified for the state tournament in his senior year.
John continued his wrestling career at Kean University where he wrestled for the varsity team.
In addition to his coaching duties with the Hillbillies, John earned his Bachelor’s degree in Health and Physical Education at Kean University and is currently teaching K to 6th grade Physical Education in the Nutley School District.
He is currently taking courses at Jersey City University to earn a Master’s Degree in administration/supervision. John resides in Cedar Grove, NJ.
”It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.”
March 7, 2009