Christian Brothers Academy Students Commit To College Sports

LINCROFT, NJ — On Wednesday's National Signing Day, the following 10 Christian Brothers Academy student-athletes committed to continuing their sport at the college level.

Christian Brothers, or CBA as it is called in the area, is a prestigious private boys' Catholic high school located in Lincroft. It is not a boarding school. Students attend school there from throughout Middlesex, Ocean and Monmouth counties.

The students, the sport they will play, their college and their hometown are as follows:

Back row, from left:

Braedin Hunt (Baseball/VCU/Old Bridge)
Patrick Reilly (Baseball/Vanderbilt/Freehold)
Mason Wolf (Baseball/Monmouth/Ocean)
Ben Dupree (Swimming/Florida Southern/Neptune City)
Liam Morris (Swimming/Loyola/Fair Haven)

Front row, from left:

Chris Arias (Track & Field/William & Mary/Red Bank)
Eros Bottino (Track & Field/Harvard/West Long Branch)
Liam O'Hara (Track & Field/University of Pennsylvania/Colts Neck)
Troy Hill (Cross country/University of Pennsylvania/Middletown)
Nolan Kus (Cross country/Quinnipiac/Jackson)

The group of 10 students have won multiple state, conference and division titles during their time as Colts (the CBA mascot).

The trio of baseball players, Hunt, Reilly and Wolf, all played a role in helping CBA win its ninth Monmouth County Championship last spring. Dupree and Morris are two-time state champions and three-time conference champions with CBA Swimming.

Hill and Kus have been important distance runners for both the cross country and track & field teams at CBA. They have been a part of nine state championships across the three running seasons.

The three track & field student-athletes all won their respective events at last June’s outdoor state championship, a meet that CBA won by 41 points. Arias won the javelin event, Bottino was the winner in the discus throw, and O’Hara was victorious in the 400 meter hurdles.

"On behalf of the CBA community, I would like to congratulate these fine student-athletes and their families on this special occasion,” CBA's Director of Athletics Vito Chiaravalloti said. “With a relentless, can-do spirit, they have worked hard in the classroom and in their sport to reach a level so many dream of reaching. It's been a privilege to watch them develop here at the Academy and we wish them well as they go on to accomplish great things at the next level."

CBA will hold additional signing days in February and April during the regular commitment period.