Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

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Track & Field

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Kevin Jermyn

Kevin Jermyn was a three-time national champion at Tottenville High School, winner of the Millrose Games High School Mile, and an All-American distance and cross-country star at Georgetown. A two-time ACC Coach of the Year at Duke, Jermyn coached two winning teams at the Penn Relays, and the school’s first individual women’s national champions, and helped coach the United States team in the 2017 Junior Pan Am Games.(Read more...)

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Marilyn King

Marilyn King, a five-time national pentathlon champion, represented the United States at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games, and qualified for a third Olympics in 1980, before the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Games. King, an Eastern States hurdles champion at Tottenville High School, finished fourth in the 1971 Pan Am Games, was the AIAW national champion in the 200-meter hurdles, and a three-time All-American. She was the coach of the first women’s track-and-field team at (Read more...)

Abel Kiviat

Abel Kiviat, the outstanding middle-distance runner of his time, won gold and silver medals at the 1912 Olympic Games. A nine-time national champion at distances from 600 yards to the mile, Kiviat broke his own 1,500-meter world record three times in 13 days, and his mark of 3:55.8 stood for six years. He remains the only runner to win national championships at 600 and 1,000 yards on the same night.(Read more...)

Charlie Marsala

Charlie Marsala, who stated running track at New Dorp High School to get in shape for baseball, became Staten Island’s first – and only – four-minute miler when he ran 3:58.7 indoors as a collegian in 1991. Marsala was a high school state champion and a two-time All-American at Indiana, where he won six Big Ten championships. He ran sub-four minutes 15 times, twice running the metric equivalent of a 3:54 mile.(Read more...)

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Frank McConville

Frank McConville, a track and cross-country star at Monsignor Farrell High School and All-American distance star at Georgetown, is best known for his hometown road-racing exploits. McConville won the Staten Island road-racing Triple Crown in 1986, 1987 and 1988, and was named Big Apple Runner of the Year in 1988. A quarter-century after his prime, he still held Island records at two miles, three miles, 5,000 meters, the half-marathon and marathon.(Read more...)