Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Basketball

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Lou Marli

Lou Marli, a onetime baseball and track star – city champion in the 300-yard dash and leadoff hitter for a championship baseball team at Monroe High School in the Bronx– had his competitive career ended by an injury. After becoming a West Brighton pharmacist, Marli spent the rest of his life sponsoring neighborhood baseball teams, track meets, benefit games and the Island’s longest-running event, the Turkey Day Trot on Thanksgiving, renamed the Lou Marli Run (Read more...)

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Kyle McAlarney

Kyle McAlarney scored a Staten Island record 2,566 points at Moore Catholic, fourth best all-time in New York State, and was the 2005 State Player of the Year and New York City scholar-athlete of the Year. Kyle McAlarney was an All-Big East guard at Notre Dame, where he set a school records for three-point shooting – including 10 treys against North Carolina – and an all-star in the France’s Pro A League.(Read more...)

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Dan McDermott

Dan McDermott is the only high school athlete named to the Staten Island Advance all-time Dream Team in basketball and All-Century Team in baseball. McDermott was 32-3 as a pitcher at Curtis High School, 9-1 in the city playoffs, and led the Warriors to back-to-back city championships in 1961 and 1962; and carried Curtis to a third-place finish in the city basketball playoffs, setting a tournament scoring record that stood for decades.(Read more...)

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Jack McGinley

Jack McGinley, who played on the St. Peter’s High School team that made it to the 1938 city championship game, returned to make the Eagles the standard against which all Staten Island basketball programs were measured. McGinley’s teams won 319 games – three wins for every loss – and 14 Staten Island championships in his 21 seasons at the helm. In one stretch the Eagles won 32 straight in the Staten Island High School League.(Read more...)

Bill Murtha

Bill Murtha, Staten Island’s second 1,000-point scorer and the first to score 50 points against an Island rival, led St. Peter’s High School to a 28-win season. He was MVP of the Iona College Tournament in a losing cause, and the 1961 Jaques Award winner as the Island’s top player. The star of an undefeated frosh team at Loyola-Chicago, the 1963 NCAA champion, Murtha transferred to George Washington, where he averaged 15 points a game (Read more...)