Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

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The 1983 St. Peter's High School Basketball Team celebrating their victory winning the city championship.

St. Peter’s High School 1983 Basketball Team

The 1983 St. Peter’s High School team, winner of the CHSAA city championship, is the only Stten Island boys’ basketball team – public or parochial – to win a city championship. Led by coach Howie Ruppert, do-it-all guard Greg Pedro, and a core of determined blue-collar players – Scott Fitzgibbons, Mike Dunn, John Walsh, Ed Conroy and Mike Sanborn, who replaced the injured Danny Mills in the lineup – the Eagles won three of their (Read more...)

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Bob Steele

Bob Steele was a mentor and role model to generations of athletes in more than a half-century as a coach and athletic director at McKee High School and Staten Island Tech, and as an assistant at the College of Staten Island. A three-time Daily News Coach of the Year, Steele won three Staten Island High School League titles in 15 seasons as the basketball coach at McKee, and an Island PSAL title in 41 seasons (Read more...)

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Sheila Tighe

Sheila Tighe scored 2,208 points at Manhattan College, more than any player, male or female, in the school’s long basketball history. Tighe was a High School All American at St. Peter’s, where she scored a Staten Island record 1,891 points. She was the Metro Atlantic and Northeast Player of the Year at Manhattan, and a two-time finalist for the Wade Trophy, given to the outstanding female player in the country.(Read more...)

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Lynn Tighe

Lynn Tighe, a Parade Magazine All-American at St. Peter’s High School and All-Big East point guard at Villanova, led the Wildcats to back-to-back conference championships and the school’s first-ever appearances in the NCAA Tournament. Second all-time at Villanova in assists, Tighe returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach and athletic department administrator.(Read more...)

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Matty White

Matty White was an all-city basketball player – and Staten Island’s first 1,000-point scorer – at LaSalle Academy in Manhattan, and an all-time player at Georgetown, before spending 24 seasons as a high school coach and 17 as an assistant at the College of Staten Island. He led LaSalle to a CHSAA championship game, scoring 25 points in the quarterfinal and 30 in the semis; and when Georgetown marked a century of basketball by celebrating (Read more...)