Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

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Basketball

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Jen Derevjanik

Jen Derevjanik was a winner everywhere she played, from her days at St. Peter’s High School, where the Eagles won Staten Island and Archdiocesan titles all four years, to George Mason University, where she started a record 116 games and led the Patriots in scoring and assists, to the Women’s National Basketball Association.  In her five-year WNBA career, Derevjanik played on the 2004 and 2005 league runner-up Connecticut Sun, before winning a title with the (Read more...)

Heyward Dotson

Heyward Dotson, an All-Ivy and All-Met guard at Columbia, was the first Staten Islander to score 1,000 points in both high school and college. Drafted by the NBA Phoenix Suns and the ABA Indiana Pacers, Dotson accepted a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he led his team to the All-England championship.(Read more...)

John Engles

John Engles, a High School All-American and two-time winner of the Warren Jaques Award as Staten Island’s best high school basketball player, set an Island scoring record with 1,399 points while leading St. Peter’s to a 22-1 record and the No. 1 ranking in New York State. An All-Ivy forward at Penn, he returned from two serious knee injuries to be named the Quakers’ MVP and Philly Big 5 Player of the Year in 1976, (Read more...)

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Warren Fenley

Warren Fenley, a three-sport star at Port Richmond High School and All-Met basketball player at Manhattan, played with the 1946 Boston Celtics, the first season of the team’s existence. A strong defender and rebounder, Fenley helped take Manhattan to the 1943 National Invitational Tournament and served in World War II before joining the Celtics of the American Basketball Association, which soon became the National Basketball Association.(Read more...)

Clare Guerriero

Clare Guerriero was a decorated two-sport star in high school — a two-time Advance All-Star in basketball and softball, an All-City pitcher and winner of the 1988 Jaques Award as the best basketball player on the Island, the Pegasus Award as the best PSAL senior and the Margaret Wigiser Award as the city’s best female athlete. Then, she played it back at St. Francis College, where Guerriero was the Northeast Conference Newcomer of the Year; (Read more...)