CBA Cross-Country Season Kicks Off Without Legendary Coach Tom Heath

Middletown, NJ - Christian Brothers Academy Cross Country team will open their 2016 season on Tuesday with a home match against arch rivals Colts Neck and Manalapan. Colts Neck and Manalapan will come to the CBA campus for a tri-meet to kick off the new season.

CBA Cross Country is known nationwide for their incredible winning streak: They have not lost a single running meet since September 19, 1974.

But Tuesday’s meet will be Christian Brothers’ first without the man who began the tradition of excellence: Coach Tom Heath. Coach Heath retired at the end of the 2015 season after 45 years at the helm of CBA XC. He guided the CBA Cross Country team to 26 state championships, 21 Meet of Champions titles, 15 Eastern Regional wins, and a Nike National Championship in 2011. He's been called the best cross-country running coach in U.S. history.

New head coach Sean McCafferty was hired last spring after two years as Heath’s right-hand man. And CBA returns top runners in seniors Drake Anzano, Genaro Anzalone, Noah Yuro, Joe Boyle, Riley Gardner, Matt Cavallaro, and Colin Trigani, and junior Brian Hill.

CBA was ranked number four in the nation last year by MileSplit.com, the leader in United States high school running coverage.