Posts from November 2015

The 2015 Boys Soccer Season came to an end after a loss to Newark Academy in the second round of the playoffs. With the season in the rearview mirror, the team, lead by senior captains Jason Englishmen and Kyle Dykstra have a lot to be proud of. We more than doubled our win total from…

The girls varsity soccer team competed in many close, exciting games this season,  highlighted by the come from behind win against Rutherford. Trailing 2-0 in the 2nd half on our home field, the girls fought back to win that game 3-2. After having lost many games by 1 goal, this one was a needed confidence…

Led by senior team captains Emma Hagedoorn and Nicole Aoki, the otherwise young 2015 volleyball team learned to compete against the league's best. Some highlights included winning a match against a talented and powerful Garfield team featuring 7 blocks from Hagedoorn. The home coming match vs 1st place Rutherford saw the Eagles score 17 well…

Girls varsity tennis ended the season with a league record of 4-10, not quite what they were hoping for after coming off of a strong season last year.  Senior captain Caitlin Shurminsky led a young team and earned 2nd Team all County and 2nd team all league competing against the league’s best at 1st singles.…

The EC Cross Country team finished its official season with the Ladies taking tenth in the state meet and the men thirteenth. Carter Heerema took a 26th place in the men's  meet and Will Fan a 44th.  In the ladies meet Kelly Bosloper took 35th and Allison Steiginga 39th.  Final records for dual meets were 5…

The auditorium at Eastern Christian High School was completely full for this morning's Thanksgiving Chapel. Alumni of all ages were invited to attend this special chapel led by several recent alumni, it was followed by a time fellowship and breakfast. It was great to see familiar faces back in the halls re-uniting and catching up with…

At Eastern Christian High School today, we welcomed over 80 eighth grade students as part of our annual High School Preview Day. We were very excited to see all of EC’s current 8th grade class as well as many visitors from other schools in the area. Many EC eighth grade students were surprised to learn that we…

Last night was our Fall open house and it was exciting to have so many families visit our campus! Over 30 families came to hear about the quality Christian education at Eastern Christian and tour our well-equipped high school campus. If you're considering EC as an option for your family, we would love to have you join…

By Rudi Gesch Director of Marketing and Enrollment Management We've already blogged about our record enrollment growth, so we know that Eastern Christian School is growing. That's great news! But how are these new EC families adjusting to life in a new school community? As it turns out, they're thriving! We polled all of our new families in something we call our "One…