Coach McCoy is entering his 7th season as our Varsity Baseball Coach after serving 4 years as a Varsity Assistant.  Under his tutelage the program has risen to state prominence.  Compiling a 69-57 record during his tenure; Coach McCoy was named B-South Coach of the Year in 2012 and 2014 and Ocean County Coach of the Year in 2014.

Coach McCoy had a stellar high school baseball career as a pitcher at St. John Vianney HS in Holmdel.  He took that success to Rutgers University where he became a New Jersey College Baseball All-Star in 1994.

Coach McCoy is an active member of the Barnegat community.  His three children have been/are participants in Barnegat Athletics.  Coach has also served as an Assistant Football Coach during his tenure with the Bengals.

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Coach Puorro is entering his 13th year of coaching high school basketball and will be entering his 3rd season as the Head Basketball Coach at Barnegat High School. Prior to his arrival at Barnegat, Coach Puorro spent two seasons as the Assistant Varsity Coach at Point Pleasant Borough, two seasons as the Freshman Basketball Coach at Barnegat High School and six seasons as the Head Basketball Coach at Wall Township HS. 

Coach Puorro possesses a great deal of knowledge regarding what it takes to be successful in the game of basketball as he was the Boy's All-Time Leading Scorer at Point Pleasant Borough High School from 2002-2012 (Currently is second).  In his first season as the Head Basketball Coach at Barnegat High School, Coach Puorro was voted 2014-2015 Division Coach of the Year by his peers.  Coach Puorro was also voted 2012-2013 Monmouth County Coach of the Year by the Star Ledger Newspaper.  

In addition to his coaching duties, Coach Puorro is the President of the Shore Conference Basketball Coaches Association, a Health & Physical Education teacher & Head Girls Golf Coach at Wall Township High School.

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Mike Palmieri
Coach Palmieri has been a part of Barnegat Township School District Athletics since the 2003-2004 school year.  After coaching softball for one season at the Russell O. Brackman Middle School, Palmieri spent the next five seasons as the junior varsity coach at Barnegat High School.  During the 2010 season he moved to the varsity level where he served as an assistant and interim head coach.  Coach took over the program in 2015 and enters the 2017 season with two years under his belt.

After spending two years coaching soccer at the middle school, Palmieri has spend the last 11 seasons with the Bengals soccer program.  During his tenure with BHS soccer he has served as both the varsity assistant and the JV coach.

Coach has also served as the head boys' bowling coach since the program's inception during the 2004-2005 school year.  

Coach Gordon is going into his 16 th year as the head coach of the Lady Bengals Girls’
Bowling Team. Coach has been involved with bowling since he was four-years-old. He
worked at a bowling alley growing up and bowled in high school and college

Besides coaching bowling, he has been the Russell O. Brackman Middle School Boys’
Soccer Coach since 2005. Coach Gordon also is the announcer for the BHS football and
basketball games.

When Coach Gordon is not coaching or announcing, he is a SUA and USA softball
official. He is known as the loudest umpire in the Shore Conference.

Below is a picture of the members of the Girls’ Bowling Team that won the 2021-2022
South Jersey Group 2 Sectional Title (missing from the picture is Grace Watts).

Jon Gordon

Kevin Peters

Jessica McDermott

Myles Ragusa

Myles Ragusa

James Rivers

Robert Klaslo

Diane Stanton

Jamie DiStefano

Paul Covine

Rick Blasi

William Brasil

Lyndesy Torre

Coach Torre is set to start her 1st season as our Girls Varsity Lacrosse Coach.  She comes to us after spending the last two years as an Assistant Coach at Stockton University.  Coach as also served as an Assistant at Georgian Court and a Head Coach at Ultimate Club Lacrosse.

As a player at Kean University Coach Torre had an outstanding career.  She was a team captain during the 2012 and 2013 seasons and was team MVP during all four seasons (2010-2013).  She was selected 1st Team All-Sklyine Conference four times (2010-2013); She was selected 1st Team All NJAC two times (2012 & 2013).  She holds Kean University career records for goals, assists, points, groundballs, and draw controls.  She also holds single season records for goals, assists, and points.

Coach Torre is a Physical Education & Health Teacher at the High School and is also our Freshman Girls Basketball Coach in the Winter.

Daniel McGrath

Kevin Peters

Rick Blasi

Mike Palmieri

Coach Palmieri has been a part of Barnegat Township School District Athletics since the 2003-2004 school year.  After coaching softball for one season at the Russell O. Brackman Middle School, Palmieri spent the next five seasons as the junior varsity coach at Barnegat High School.  During the 2010 season he moved to the varsity level where he served as an assistant and interim head coach.  Coach took over the program in 2015 and enters the 2017 season with two years under his belt.

After spending two years coaching soccer at the middle school, Palmieri has spend the last 11 seasons with the Bengals soccer program.  During his tenure with BHS soccer he has served as both the varsity assistant and the JV coach.

Coach has also served as the head boys' bowling coach since the program's inception during the 2004-2005 school year.  

Emily Cherry

Taylor Teliszewski

Mike McCullion

William Thorne

James Rivers

Rebecca Kane

James Rivers

Derek Rizzo

Emily Dancisin

Brendan McCarthy