Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

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Larry Anderson

Larry Anderson was a three-sport star at Curtis High School, a two-time all-city centerfielder, football MVP and basketball point guard, and winner of the 1960 Robert Maranville Award as the top student-athlete in New York City. Anderson captained the baseball team at NYU, and played on the basketball team ranked No. 1 for a time in the country. He returned to coach the Curtis basketball team to three Island titles, and guide the Wagner College (Read more...)

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Cathy Andruzzi

Cathy Andruzzi was in the vanguard of women’s basketball from the time she played for Queens College in the 1973 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national championship game. Andruzzi served as general manager of the Philadelphia Rage of the American Basketball League; executive director of the 2000 Final Four; and head coach at Wagner College, Fordham and East Carolina – where her teams made three post-season appearances.(Read more...)

Nicky Anosike

Nicky Anosike, a two-time Jaques Award winner as the best high school basketball player on Staten Island and the 2004 New York State Player of the Year, played in three Final Fours and won back-to-back national championships at Tennessee. A gold medalist in the 2007 Pan Am Games, she was the 2008 NCAA Woman of the Year. In five Women’s National Basketball Association seasons with the Minnesota Lynx, Washington Mystics and Los Angeles Sparks, Anosike (Read more...)

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Bob Bertucci

Bob Bertucci, who learned to play volleyball at the Staten Island YMCA before becoming a two-time MVP at Springfield College and a masters All-American, has won 759 games as a college coach. Since he started the women’s team at West Point in 1978 – where the Cadets won a district title in the program’s first season – Bertucci won conference titles at Tennessee, Rutgers-Newark, Temple and Lehigh.(Read more...)

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Bob Daggett

Bob Daggett won 504 games in 25 seasons as the girls’ basketball coach at St. Peter’s and Curtis High School, winning 75 percent of his games. Daggett’s St. Peter’s teams won Archdiocesan and state championships, and 16 straight Staten Island titles, and went nine seasons without losing to an Island opponent. In two seasons at Curtis he won a PSAL A championship and went to the AA semifinals.(Read more...)