Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Basketball

Greg Pedro

Greg Pedro scored 1,406 points at St. Peter’s High School, a Staten Island schoolboy record at the time; but his signature triumph was leading the Eagles to the 1983 New York CHSAA championship, still the only city title for a boys’ high school team from Staten Island, public or private. A two-year letterman at Michigan State and an all-conference guard and two-year captain at Fordham, Pedro led the Rams to a MAAC championship game, where (Read more...)

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Tony Petosa

Tony Petosa, the heart and soul of the College of Staten Island basketball program as player, assistant coach and head coach, guided the Dolphins to five CUNY championships, six NCAA Division III Tournaments and more than 400 wins in a quarter-century as head coach. Petosa, a three-time CUNY champion and conference tournament MVP as a player, set a school scoring record that stood for 16 seasons. His all-time rebounding record still stands.(Read more...)

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Jeanine Radice

Jeanine Radice was the MAAC Conference and Metro Basketball Player of the Year at Fordham, where she was also the Met Intercollegiate and two-time MAAC cross-country champion, and the school’s Athlete of the Year. Winner of the inaugural Warren Jaques Award as Staten Island’s best schoolgirl basketball player while at St. Joseph by-the-Sea, Radice was also the first female runner to qualify for the Kinney national high school cross-country championships.(Read more...)

Tony Rafaniello

Tony Rafaniello

Tony Rafaniello won 511 games – almost 200 more than the next highest total among Staten Island high school basketball coaches – over 38 seasons at Monsignor Farrell, New Dorp, and Moore Catholic. Rafaniello, whose teams won five Staten Island High School Basketball League championships – two at Farrell, and three more at New Dorp – was also the lead architect behind the creation of the SIHSL Tournament, highlight of the Staten Island sports calendar. (Read more...)

Elmer Ripley

Elmer Ripley, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, won a national tournament as a player with the New York Nationals in 1914 and an NCAA Eastern championship as a coach at Georgetown in 1943. Generally regarded as the best player of his generation, Ripley also coached Notre Dame, Army, Columbia, Yale and Wagner College, and the Israeli and Canadian Olympic teams.(Read more...)