New Jersey RISE Coaching Team
High School 2024 Team U17
Ali Napolitano – Coach 2024
High School 2025 Team U16
Glenn Jansen – Coach 2025 Team- National
Coach Glenn Jansen is in his third season as the Head Girls Basketball Coach at Donovan Catholic. In his first two seasons at his alma mater the Griffins posted back to back 21 win seasons and were co-divisional champs in 2017-2018. Previously he was the Head Girls Coach at Colts Neck High School for four seasons highlighted by the 2014 Central Jersey Group IV State Sectional Title. He spent the first ten years of his coaching career as a boys assistant to Lou Piccola at Colts Neck.
Chris Conroy – Coach 2025 Team- Regional
High School – 2026 Team U15
Ellen Masonius – Coach 2026 Team https://newjerseyrise.com/director/
Rick Leeman- Coach 2026 Team
8th Grade – 2026 Teams
John Baffa– Coach
6th Grade – 2029 Team
Rich Wortman– Coach
5th Grade – 2030 Team
Jenny Greene
Jenny currently is the director of the youth programs for the New Jersey Rise and coaches our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teams. She has coached from 2nd grade through high school and continues to support New Jersey Rise alumni as they continue playing at the collegiate level. Jenny believes in putting a major emphasis on fundamental skills, teamwork, and fun! She teaches her players to have high basketball IQs, skills, and a competitive nature.
Jenny is a middle school teacher in the Carteret School District. She is currently the Head Coach at Carteret Middle School and the Assistant Coach at Carteret High School. Jenny has been coaching travel basketball for 12 years, and she has been a New Jersey Rise coach since 2015.
4th Grade – 2030 Teams
Jenny Greene
Jenny currently is the director of the youth programs for the New Jersey Rise and coaches our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teams. She has coached from 2nd grade through high school and continues to support New Jersey Rise alumni as they continue playing at the collegiate level. Jenny believes in putting a major emphasis on fundamental skills, teamwork, and fun! She teaches her players to have high basketball IQs, skills, and a competitive nature.
Jenny is a middle school teacher in the Carteret School District. She is currently the Head Coach at Carteret Middle School and the Assistant Coach at Carteret High School. Jenny has been coaching travel basketball for 12 years, and she has been a New Jersey Rise coach since 2015.
Youth Developmental Team
Jenny Greene
Trainer/Skill Development
Bob Greene – New Jersey RISE Director of Skill Development
From 1992-1999, Coach Bob served as the Head Coach at St. Peter’s New Brunswick Boys Varsity Basketball team. While there, his team won over 160 games in 8 years, and in 1995, they won the Parochial B South State Championship. During his time coaching boys, he had 16 Division 1 and 2 players. In addition to helping his players continue their basketball careers, one of his players was a 1st round NBA draft pick.
Since his time at St. Peter’s, Coach Bob has been training girls. He has been working with the program since 2012. During this time, he has helped develop 30 Division 1 scholarship players, all of whom had the desire to be great and the willingness to be coached!