Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Karl McCoy

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Karl McCoy was a gifted receiver – a 6-7 high jumper who led Staten Island in receptions as a sophomore and senior at Port Richmond High School, and doubled as a running back his junior year – and an even better defensive back.

In a truncated career at Penn State, McCoy lettered as a freshman, and started the next year. He had five interceptions, two against undefeated Maryland in the game that vaulted the Nittany Lions to a No. 1 ranking for the first time in school history. He was named to the Staten Island Advance All-Century team.

Football
Class of 2017

Gabe Perillo

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Gabe Perillo, a 1944 112-pound Navy boxing champion who studied art on the G.I. Bill, combined his love of the two disciplines to become one of the nation’s renowned sports artists.

Perillo painted 18 covers for Ring magazine, and his portraits were a staple of ESPN’s “Sports Century” and “50 Greatest Athletes” series. But he was best known on Staten Island for his “Fuzzy Professor” illustrations of local sports figures in the Staten Island Register.

Boxing
Class of 2017

Brenda Jordan

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Brenda Jordan, Staten Island’s first female 1,000-point scorer, grew up in an era when there were few opportunities for women athletes; but from an early age she refused to be limited by the imagination of others, playing baseball on boys’ teams and setting scoring records at St. Joseph Hill Academy that would last forever.

She averaged 26 points a game over four seasons from 1957 to 1960 – 35 a game her junior season – and once outscored the opposition all by herself, pouring in 53 points in a 67-51 victory over St. Peter’s.

Basketball
Class of 2017

Kevin Jermyn

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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.

Track & Field
Class of 2017

Ron Isler

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Ron Isler was a three-sport star at New Dorp High School when he was struck and critically injured by a hit-and-run driver after a basketball game. He came back to hit .496 and .390 on the diamond, score four touchdowns in a game, and be named a Teen Magazine All-American.

Recruited to play football at the University of Iowa, Isler wound up a three-year starter on the baseball team, an All-Big 10 shortstop and Academic All-American who hit .304 and .310 as a junior and senior, and served as team captain.

Baseball, Football
Class of 2017