Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Basketball

Karen Lynch

Karen Lynch, the 1984 CUNY Conference Basketball Coach of the Year at the College of Staten Island, won four city championships, three Metro Bowls, and 77 percent of her games – including a 26-0 season in 1996 – in 12 seasons as the softball coach at Port Richmond High School, where she also coached wide receivers and running backs for the football team. A two-sport athlete, Lynch still holds the single-season record for assists at (Read more...)

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Lou Marli

Lou Marli, a onetime baseball and track star – city champion in the 300-yard dash and leadoff hitter for a championship baseball team at Monroe High School in the Bronx– had his competitive career ended by an injury. After becoming a West Brighton pharmacist, Marli spent the rest of his life sponsoring neighborhood baseball teams, track meets, benefit games and the Island’s longest-running event, the Turkey Day Trot on Thanksgiving, renamed the Lou Marli Run (Read more...)

Sharon McAdams

Sharon McAdams, Moore Catholic’s first 1,000-point scorer, led the Staten Island Catholic League in scoring as a freshman, and set school records in scoring, steals, assists, and free throws at Moore and at St. Francis College, where she’s still the all-time leader in steals. Back at Moore as a coach, the 1986 New York State Coach of the Year won three Staten Island Catholic League titles, two Archdiocesan titles, 3 Catholic Downstate titles, back-to-back New (Read more...)

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Kyle McAlarney

Kyle McAlarney scored a Staten Island record 2,566 points at Moore Catholic, fourth best all-time in New York State, and was the 2005 State Player of the Year and New York City scholar-athlete of the Year. Kyle McAlarney was an All-Big East guard at Notre Dame, where he set a school records for three-point shooting – including 10 treys against North Carolina – and an all-star in the France’s Pro A League.(Read more...)

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Dan McDermott

Dan McDermott is the only high school athlete named to the Staten Island Advance all-time Dream Team in basketball and All-Century Team in baseball. McDermott was 32-3 as a pitcher at Curtis High School, 9-1 in the city playoffs, and led the Warriors to back-to-back city championships in 1961 and 1962; and carried Curtis to a third-place finish in the city basketball playoffs, setting a tournament scoring record that stood for decades.(Read more...)