Mountain Lakes
| Mountain Lakes High School | |
| Location: Mountain Lakes, NJ | |
|---|---|
| Club Presidents | Christopher Nielsen & Andrew Matty |
| Coaches | Robert Elfers & Mukta Chandra (both 2024-) |
| National Championships | NHBB 2023 (Varsity Small Schools), NHBB 2024 (Varsity Small Schools) |
| National Appearances | HSNCT: 2012-2015, 2023 SSNCT: 2021 PACE NSC: 2013-2015, 2017 NHBB: 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021-2024 IPNCT: 2019, 2021, 2024 |
| Program Status | Active |
| School Size | 569 |
| NAQT Page | link |
Mountain Lakes High School is a small high school located in northern New Jersey. The school has had many notable results in NAQT and IAC tournaments despite its small size of less than 600 students. Graduating students of Briarcliff Middle School and Rockaway Valley School attend Mountain Lakes.
In 2013, a team from the school won the Tri-State Championship on the TV show, The Challenge. In 2013, 2015, and 2024, the team finished in the top three in the NAQT state championship (NAQT New Jersey State Championship and LIQBA Garden Cup). The team came in 7th in the 2021 SSNCT. In 2012, 2022, 2023, and 2024 the team came in the top 30 in the National History Bowl Varsity Division, coming in 6th out of all teams in 2024, the best finish by a small school in IAC history. The 2024 team was composed of Olin Bose '24 (captain), Topher Nielsen '25, Jayden Cao '25, Owen Hatton '25, and Andrew Matty '26. In that same year, captain Olin Bose won the IAC US History Bee Varsity national championship. In 2023 and 2024, the team also won the History Bowl Small School National Championship (Varsity Division), becoming the first school to win the title more than once.
Advisors
Stephanie Pfau 2004-2010
Anne Mucci & Sean Cosgrove 2011-2012
Anne Mucci & Andrew Ibendahl 2012-2013
Andrew Ibendahl 2012-2015
Jerome Leonardi 2015-2017
Michael Schutz 2017-2021
Stephanie Baier 2021-2024
Mukta Chandra & Robert Elfers 2024-
Results
| Year | HSNCT | PACE NSC (Small Schools) |
SSNCT | NHBB Varsity (Small Schools) |
NHBB JV (Small Schools) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 96th/240 | 27th/136 | |||
| 2013 | 50th/256 | 36th/72 | |||
| 2014 | 77th/272 | 44th/96 (2nd) | |||
| 2015 | 77th/272 | 50th/96 (3rd) | 41st/90 (2nd) | ||
| 2016 | 59th/160 (5th) | ||||
| 2017 | 44th/96 | ||||
| 2018 | 121st/144 | 108th/144 | |||
| 2019 | 70th/144 (4th) | 67th/96 (7th) | |||
| 2020 | |||||
| 2021 | 7th/40 | 53rd/64 | |||
| 2022 | 23rd/84 (2nd) | ||||
| 2023 | 145th/304 | 27th/96 (1st) | |||
| 2024 | 6th/84 (1st) |