Our Story – Lenape Indians Wrestling 

Lenape High School opened its doors in Medford, NJ in 1958.   Historically, the school has always fielded top notch athletic teams and talented and well-coached wrestling teams in particular.

The school now houses about 2000 students at its campus located at 235 Hartford (corner of Church and Hartford) and along with its sister schools Shawnee,  Cherokee and Seneca, is part of the Lenape Regional High School District.

Lenape wrestles in the always-tough Olympic Conference, and was the runner up (to beloved Washington Twp.) this year in the Olympic Conference’s American Division. The Olympic conference is traditionally one of the toughest conferences in the state.  The 2008 – 2009 season saw the Indians complete a competive schedule with an overall record of 20 – 5, and ranked 11th in South Jersey by the Courier-Post.  Although the Indians finished with 20 wins for the first time in the school’s history, they missed qualifiying for the NJSIAA Sectionals because they were 6-5 at the time of the cutoff before winning the next 14 straight dual matches. 

Lenape is proud of its long history of outstanding wrestling teams and individuals, and was selected as the 3rd-best wrestling program in South Jersey (where wrestling is king!) by the Camden Courier-Post newspaper in 1999, trailing only Paulsboro and Highland (oh well, the paper isn’t perfect).  Lenape has won 10 Burlington County League Liberty Division championships (before leaving the league), 4 Olympic American Division championships (including the last 3), 18 team District Championships (including the 2004 team crown in District 27), and 3 South Jersey Group IV championships.