Inductees – Page 10

Mike Gilsenan

May 8, 2019 By

Mike Gilsenan was a three-dimensional football star at Tottenville High School, a Scholastic Magazine honorable mention All-American, and member of the Staten Island Advance All-Century Team; and a repeat Staten Island champion in the 220 and 440-yard dash.

He played in four major bowl games as a Penn State defensive back; but in his hometown Gilsenan is best remembered for scoring both Tottenville touchdowns in an epic 1974 upset of Monsignor Farrell, one a long pass reception and the other a 97-yard return of a quick kick.

Football

Class of 2017

Karin Muller Crowley

May 8, 2019 By

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 East titles and was named All-ECAC, All-New England, and All-Northeast.

Softball

Class of 2016

Gerry Lawless

May 8, 2019 By

Gerry Lawless, one of the first great women basketball players on Staten Island and the second-high school player to score 1,000 points, averaged 20 points a game and lost just once in four years at St. Peter’s High School.

Already a playground legend, the 5-foot-10 ambidextrous scorer went on to an equally dominant career at Staten Island Community College, and remained an inspiration to the generations of players who followed in her footsteps.

Basketball

Class of 2016

Leslie Stahl Clauson

May 8, 2019 By

Leslie Stahl was a volleyball star at Curtis High School and at Northwestern University, where she helped the Wildcats to the best record in school history and a berth in the NAIAW Tournament.

When she played for the United States national team in the 1975 Pan Am Games, Stahl was considered the best women’s player from east of the Mississippi. She was part of the first class inducted into the New York City PSAL Hall of Fame.

Volleyball

Class of 2016

Ed Sorge

May 8, 2019 By

Ed Sorge, a two-time Staten Island Amateur champion, served as the head professional at Silver Lake Golf Course from 1963 until 1988, where his clinics spawned generations of the Island’s best golfers.

Sorge won the Amateur in 1952 and 1958 – his record qualifying round of 67, and his 28 on the front nine at Richmond County Country Club still stand – bracketing a stint in the United States Air Force, where he won the 1956 Strategic Air Command and the Western Command titles.

Golf

Class of 2016