Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Kenny Page

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Kenny Page was Ohio State’s third-leading scorer as a freshman before transferring to New Mexico, where he averaged 28 points a game one year – fourth in the country, and still the school record – and 24 the next.
A High School All American, Page broke his own single-season record, scoring 29 a game as a senior and leading McKee to the city championship game, where he scored 32 points in a losing cause.

Basketball
Class of 2002

Did You Know?

Only three Staten Island boys’ basketball teams made it to a city championship game. The others were the 1977 McKee team led by Hall of Famer Kenny Page and the 1938 St. Peter’s team that included Hall of Famers Jack McGinley and Buddy O’Grady.

Charlie Marsala

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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.

Track & Field
Class of 2002

Karl Drews

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Karl Drews won 44 games in eight major-league seasons, most of them as a reliever with the Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds, and made two World Series appearances.
When the Phillies made him a starter in 1952, Drews responded by throwing 15 complete games in 30 starts, and winning 14 games. His five shutouts were tops in the National League.

Baseball
Class of 2001

Darlene Crowe

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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.

Softball
Class of 2002

Bill Welsh

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Bill Welsh started the Augustinian Academy track program while still a student, before becoming a Met Junior Cross-Country and Junior National 15,000-meter champion, and the fifth American finisher in the 1955 Boston Marathon.
The longtime coach at New Dorp High School, Welsh tutored a four-minute miler, seven-foot high-jumper and record-setting shot-putters and pole-vaulters, and mentored generations of recreational runners.

Track & Field
Class of 1998