Basketball
Sheila Tighe
Sheila Tighe scored 2,208 points at Manhattan College, more than any player, male or female, in the school’s long basketball history. Tighe was a High School All American at St. Peter’s, where she scored a Staten Island record 1,891 points. She was the Metro Atlantic and Northeast Player of the Year at Manhattan, and a two-time finalist for the Wade Trophy, given to the outstanding female player in the country.(Read more...)
Lynn Tighe
Lynn Tighe, a Parade Magazine All-American at St. Peter’s High School and All-Big East point guard at Villanova, led the Wildcats to back-to-back conference championships and the school’s first-ever appearances in the NCAA Tournament. Second all-time at Villanova in assists, Tighe returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach and athletic department administrator.(Read more...)
Matty White
Matty White was an all-city basketball player – and Staten Island’s first 1,000-point scorer – at LaSalle Academy in Manhattan, and an all-time player at Georgetown, before spending 24 seasons as a high school coach and 17 as an assistant at the College of Staten Island. He led LaSalle to a CHSAA championship game, scoring 25 points in the quarterfinal and 30 in the semis; and when Georgetown marked a century of basketball by celebrating (Read more...)
Bill Wolfe
Bill Wolfe was a gritty point guard and middle infielder at Curtis High School, where he helped the Warriors win back-to-back city championships in baseball, and go deep into the public school playoffs in basketball; and at Wagner College, where he starred in both sports, and is in the school’s Hall of Fame. Decades later, that same hard-nosed competitive spirit drove Wolfe to dozens of racquetball titles, often against younger opponents, and two national senior (Read more...)