2005 and 2007-2009 The team won the Public A state championship in 2008, with a 5-0 over Watchung Hills Regional High School in the tournament final. In 2017, the team went on to win its second Public A state championship, defeating Watchung Hills by a score of 2-1 in the tournament final. The team won the 2019 Public B state championship defeating Randolph High School. The boy's varsity ski team won the 2009 New Jersey Interscholastic Ski Racing Association (NJISRA) overall state championship. The boys' lacrosse team won the Group III state championship in 2010 (defeating West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North in the tournament final) and the Group IV title in 2013 (vs. Southern Regional High School); the team won the 2013 Tournament of Champions vs. Don Bosco Preparatory High School. The Ridge girls' golf team won the 2015 Tournament of Champions, 26 strokes ahead of Red Bank Catholic High School in second place, marking the team's fifth consecutive state championship. The Ridge girls' volleyball team won the Group IV state championship in 2017, defeating Cherokee High School. The coach of the boys fencing team, Stephen Kovacs, was arrested in October 2021 on charges of sexual assault. He died in jail in January 15, 2022. In March 2022, at the National Scholastic Indoor Championships, the boys track team set a national high school record with a time of 9:53.40 in the distance medley relay. Extracurricular activities The Ridge High School Forensics Team (speech and debate) has had numerous national champions. They won the New Jersey state tournament every year from 2001 to 2016."Ridge Speech and Debate Team wins 15th consecutive state championship. Ridge Forensics Team wins 2016 New Jersey Speech and Debate League Championships!", Basking Ridge, NJ Patch, March 16, 2016. Accessed December 23, 2019. "The Ridge Forensics Team, Ridge High School's interscholastic speech and debate program, achieved its fifteenth consecutive Overall Team Championship title this past weekend at the 2016 New Jersey Speech and Debate League's State Championship held at the Bridgewater-Raritan School District." The school's Marching Band program includes three groups: the "Ridge Marching Band", competing in the Fall season in the USBands and the New Jersey Marching Band Directors Association (NJMBDA) circuits, and the "Ridge Winter Guard" and "Ridge Indoor Percussion Ensemble", which compete in the winter season in the Mid-Atlantic Indoor Network (MAIN) and USBands indoor circuits, respectively. The Marching Band won its first NJ state