Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Basketball

Joan Gumb

In 30 years as the basketball coach at her alma mater, St. Peter’s High School for Girls, Joan Gumb won 555 games and helped shepherd the game from the six-a-side, halfcourt game of the 1960s to the fastbreak style of the modern era. A two-time New York State Coach of the Year, Gumb guided the Eagles to New York State championships in 1985, 1987 and 1989.(Read more...)

Sue Harnett

Sue Harnett, a third-team basketball All-American at Duke, set school records with 1,785 points, 899 rebounds, and 130 blocked shots, and remains in the top five all-time in scoring and rebounding. A Parade Magazine High School All-American and New York State Player of the Year, Harnett scored 2,111 points at Moore Catholic, and led the Mavericks to two New York State championships.(Read more...)

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Brenda Jordan

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 – (Read more...)

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Gerry Lawless

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.(Read more...)

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Bert Levinson

Bert Levinson was the basketball and baseball coach at Curtis High School for just over a decade, but all his Warrior teams did was win: seven Staten Island PSAL basketball championships, and a trip to the city semifinals. If possible, Levinson’s baseball record is even more impressive: six consecutive trips to the city championship game, and back-to-back city titles in 1961 and 1962. He sent three players to the major leagues.(Read more...)