
Honoring Athletes, Coaches and
Benefactors whose outstanding performance has earned them the right to be enshrined in the Sussex County Sports Hall of Fame!
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The Sussex County Sports Hall of Fame
2006 Inductee
MIKE JUSKUS

1976 graduate of Hopatcong High School;
1981 graduate of Glassboro State College (Rowan University); inducted
for his accomplishments primarily in collegiate track and field and
secondarily for his accomplishments in high school baseball, football,
wrestling and bowling; in high school, he won 13 varsity letters while
winning numerous All League, Most Valuable and Most Improved honors
In college, as a track & field walk on,
became the top javelin thrower in the nation; was three time NCAA Division
III individual champion and two time team champion and individual second
place once; was three time NCAA Division I All American winning the
individual National Championship (1981) once and finishing in second and
sixth the other two times; his throw of 273’ 3” is still the National Record
for Division III and sixth best all time in the 85 year NCAA history
He has been inducted into the Hopatcong
High School, Rowan College and NCAA Division III Halls of Fame; other awards
won include the Alfred E. White Award for top senior athlete from Glassboro
College, the 1981 Top Amateur Athlete in New Jersey Award presented by the
NJ Sports Writers and the NJ Herald Athlete of the Year for 1981; at the
1981 NJ State College Championships was named the Outstanding Athlete for
his performance in javelin (260’), high jump (6”8”) and long jump (22’)
Was part of the United States National Team
competing in Europe including the World University Games in Romania;
finished in the Top Ten US list each year from 1979 to 1982
Has been track & field coach at Hopatcong
High School for twenty three years, nineteen as head coach; his teams have
had the highest winning percentage of any sports program in Hopatcong High
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