Cougar volleyball coach Mike Tully was also recently named the 2008 New Jersey State Coach of the year. In 2007, the team had a 19–1 record, winning the 2007 Colonial Hills Conference Championship, came in 2nd in the 2007 Essex County Tournament and won the 2007 Prep B state championship. The MKA golf team finished the 2010 season as Parochial Non Public B State Champions and NJISAA Prep B state champions. In 2008, Coach Tony Jones led the boys' basketball team to the school's first Prep B championship for the sport, defeating Collegiate School 82–59. Kyrie Irving, who was a Sophomore at the time, became the school's second 1,000 point scorer two days earlier in the semi-final game against top seeded and defending champion Solomon Schechter. In 2010, they were named SEC Independence Division Champions. The boys lacrosse team won the Non-Public Group B state championship, defeating Pingry School in the tournament final. MKA boys cross country through 2014–2017 won four consecutive Prep B state championships, including a Non-Public B championship in 2014 and top 3 finishes in 2015 and 2017. This dominance not matched nearly by any other MKA sports program was led by coach Thomas Fleming until his death in the spring of 2017 where he suffered from a heart attack during a track meet. He later died at the hospital. The girls soccer team finished the 2017 season with a 17-4-5 record, after winning the Non-Public Group B state title as co-champion with Moorestown Friends School after a 3-3 tie in the finals of the tournament. Notable alumni Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913–2004, class of 1929), poet and educator. Kerry Bishé (born 1984), actress (her father taught at MKA) Spruille Braden (1894–1978, class of 1910), U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (1939–42), Cuba (1942–45), Argentina (1945). Robert L. Clifford (1924-2014, class of 1942), New Jersey Supreme Court Justice. Bob Cottingham (born 1966, class of 1984), Olympic fencer who competed in the sabre events at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. Jim Courter (born 1941), represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991. Fairleigh Dickinson Jr. (1919–1996, class of 1937), President of Becton, Dickinson & Co. Lewis Williams Douglas (1894–1974, class of 1912), U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1947–50). Wayne Dumont (1914–1992), politician who served in the New Jersey Senate from 1951 to 1990 (with a two-year gap). Hal Ebersole (1899–1984), American football guard who