Felician Athletics - Staff Directory

Rich Szura hopes to help Alan Clements duplicate the success at Felician that he had at the high school level.

Szura was inducted into the Fair Lawn High Athletic Hall of Fame following a successful 10-year run coaching the Cutters’ boys and girls’ volleyball teams. From 1991-2000 he posted a 214-44 (.829) boys’ record. He reached the state championship match for three consecutive years, winning the title and being voted the No. 1 team in New Jersey in 1995. Szura was named national coach of the year in 1998 and state coach of the year in 1995. The Cutters won seven Bergen County titles and six league crowns and posted a 45-match winning streak under his watch.

On the girls’ side, Szura won two league titles in nine years at Fair Lawn and two more during a three-year stint at Ramapo High from 2004-06, combining for a 227-77 (.747) won-lost record before retiring from teaching and coaching. His 1997 Fair Lawn squad won a state championship and was the No. 1 team in New Jersey, earning him state coach-of-the-year honors.

A member of the Wallington High Hall of Fame as an athlete, Szura was an all-state honoree in both football and baseball. He received a football scholarship to Highland (Kan.) Junior College before earning a BA in education from Kansas State Teachers College in 1964. He resides in Hewitt.