Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Track & Field

Jesse Carlin

Jesse Carlin, a 2008 All-American in the 800 meters and the Distance Medley Relay at the University of Pennsylvania, finished third at the 2009 USA championships. A five-time ECAC champion and four-time Heptagonal champion, she set Penn records at 400, 500, and 800 meters, some of which still stand. Carlin was a New York state champion, four-time CHSAA champion, and eight-time Staten Island champion at St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School, where she set nine individual (Read more...)

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Artie Evans

Artie Evans, who ran the fastest half-mile relay leg ever posted by a New York City runner while at St. Peter’s High School, ran the anchor leg on the Manhattan College two-mile relay that set a world indoor record at the 1961 Millrose Games. Evans went on to become a Met junior and senior champion at 600 and 1,000 yards, and finished third in the AAU national championships.(Read more...)

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Art Hall

Art Hall, a road-racing pioneer, won the 1975 Penn Relays Marathon, ran a 2:22.12 personal best at the Boston Marathon, and posted four top-six finishes in the early days of the New York City Marathon. Hall, who mentored generations of runners through his North Shore Track Club, still holds Staten Island records at a variety of distances from six miles to 30 kilometers.(Read more...)

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Robin Jackson

Robin Jackson, Staten Island’s fastest woman sprinter, still holds Island records at 55 and 200 meters, and in the long jump. Jackson was an All-American at Wisconsin, winning a Big Ten championship at 300 yards, running on three championship relay teams, while leading the Badgers to the 1981 indoor and outdoor conference titles.(Read more...)

Bill Jankunis

Bill Jankunis high-jumped 7 feet, 5¾ inches at the U.S. Olympic Trials, the fifth best jump in the world at that time, to defeat the reigning world record-holder and qualify for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where he finished 13th in the world. Jankunis became the first Staten Island jumper to clear seven feet as a senior at New Dorp High School, before going on to set the Big 8 Conference record of 7-4 (Read more...)