Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

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Softball

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Aileen Aponte

Aileen Aponte, who led Curtis High School to four straight city championships in softball and won an individual city championship in gymnastics, is the only athlete to win the Pegasus Award, which goes to the top public-school senior athlete in New York City, in two sports. Aponte was 18-0 as a pitcher in the playoffs at Curtis, before playing on a Princeton softball team that won three Ivy League titles, earned two NCAA Tournament berths, (Read more...)

Darlene Crowe

Darlene Crowe won a city championship at Curtis High School and an EAIAW Division II championship at C.W. Post, where she pitched to a 0.32 earned-run average in 1981 and still holds records for E.R.A, strikeouts and winning percentage. In her only season of high school softball, Crowe threw a two-hitter, a one-hitter and a no-hitter in the city playoffs, while striking out 16, 15 and 15 in successive games.(Read more...)

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Karin Muller Crowley

Karin Muller was a dominating slugger at every level of softball, right from the time she led the Snug Harbor Little League team to the Big League World Series with three game-winning tournament hits. An All-State player at Curtis High School, where she hit 26 home runs and led the Warriors to three city championships, Muller set a multitude of offensive records at the University of Connecticut, where she led the Huskies to two Big (Read more...)

Karen Lynch

Karen Lynch, the 1984 CUNY Conference Basketball Coach of the Year at the College of Staten Island, won four city championships, three Metro Bowls, and 77 percent of her games – including a 26-0 season in 1996 – in 12 seasons as the softball coach at Port Richmond High School, where she also coached wide receivers and running backs for the football team. A two-sport athlete, Lynch still holds the single-season record for assists at (Read more...)

Cathy Morano

Cathy Morano established a legacy of relentless excellence – 10 New York City championships, including six in a row – as the softball coach at Tottenville High School. Morano’s teams won 117 straight regular-season games, a streak that stretched over parts of seven seasons, and played in 12 straight city championship games. All the while, Morano doubled as Tottenville’s basketball coach, winning 379 games in 28 seasons on the bench.(Read more...)