Nick Bilotti was still a teenager when he guided the Tompkinsville Violets – a sandlot baseball team of 14, 15 and 16-year olds – to the first of six Kiwanis state championships. In the decades that followed, he coached high school baseball, basketball and soccer, before engineering the rebirth of football at Port Richmond High School.
Named to lead a struggling new school, he turned Staten Island Tech into one of the city’s academic jewels, partly by brokering a sports partnership with McKee High School that made Tech attractive to student-athletes left out of the original blueprint.
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