Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

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Basketball

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Jen Derevjanik

Jen Derevjanik was a winner everywhere she played, from her days at St. Peter’s High School, where the Eagles won Staten Island and Archdiocesan titles all four years, to George Mason University, where she started a record 116 games and led the Patriots in scoring and assists, to the Women’s National Basketball Association.  In her five-year WNBA career, Derevjanik played on the 2004 and 2005 league runner-up Connecticut Sun, before winning a title with the (Read more...)

Heyward Dotson

Heyward Dotson, an All-Ivy and All-Met guard at Columbia, was the first Staten Islander to score 1,000 points in both high school and college. Drafted by the NBA Phoenix Suns and the ABA Indiana Pacers, Dotson accepted a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he led his team to the All-England championship.(Read more...)

John Engles

John Engles, a High School All-American and two-time winner of the Warren Jaques Award as Staten Island’s best high school basketball player, set an Island scoring record with 1,399 points while leading St. Peter’s to a 22-1 record and the No. 1 ranking in New York State. An All-Ivy forward at Penn, he returned from two serious knee injuries to be named the Quakers’ MVP and Philly Big 5 Player of the Year in 1976, (Read more...)

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Warren Fenley

Warren Fenley, a three-sport star at Port Richmond High School and All-Met basketball player at Manhattan, played with the 1946 Boston Celtics, the first season of the team’s existence. A strong defender and rebounder, Fenley helped take Manhattan to the 1943 National Invitational Tournament and served in World War II before joining the Celtics of the American Basketball Association, which soon became the National Basketball Association.(Read more...)

Joan Gumb

In 30 years as the basketball coach at her alma mater, St. Peter’s High School for Girls, Joan Gumb won 555 games and helped shepherd the game from the six-a-side, halfcourt game of the 1960s to the fastbreak style of the modern era. A two-time New York State Coach of the Year, Gumb guided the Eagles to New York State championships in 1985, 1987 and 1989.(Read more...)