Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

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Basketball

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Francis “Buddy” O’Grady

Buddy O’Grady was a basketball floor general from high school – where he helped guide St. Peter’s to the 1938 city championship game – to Georgetown, to the American Basketball Association, forerunner of the NBA. O’Grady played three seasons for the Washington Capitols, St. Louis Bombers, and Providence Steamrollers of the ABA, before returning to coach his alma mater. When Georgetown celebrated its greatest players in 2007, O’Grady was among them.(Read more...)

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Kenny Page

Kenny Page was Ohio State’s third-leading scorer as a freshman before transferring to New Mexico, where he averaged 28 points a game one year – fourth in the country, and still the school record – and 24 the next. A High School All American, Page broke his own single-season record, scoring 29 a game as a senior and leading McKee to the city championship game, where he scored 32 points in a losing cause.(Read more...)

Greg Pedro

Greg Pedro scored 1,406 points at St. Peter’s High School, a Staten Island schoolboy record at the time; but his signature triumph was leading the Eagles to the 1983 New York CHSAA championship, still the only city title for a boys’ high school team from Staten Island, public or private. A two-year letterman at Michigan State and an all-conference guard and two-year captain at Fordham, Pedro led the Rams to a MAAC championship game, where (Read more...)

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Tony Petosa

Tony Petosa, the heart and soul of the College of Staten Island basketball program as player, assistant coach and head coach, guided the Dolphins to five CUNY championships, six NCAA Division III Tournaments and more than 400 wins in a quarter-century as head coach. Petosa, a three-time CUNY champion and conference tournament MVP as a player, set a school scoring record that stood for 16 seasons. His all-time rebounding record still stands.(Read more...)

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Jeanine Radice

Jeanine Radice was the MAAC Conference and Metro Basketball Player of the Year at Fordham, where she was also the Met Intercollegiate and two-time MAAC cross-country champion, and the school’s Athlete of the Year. Winner of the inaugural Warren Jaques Award as Staten Island’s best schoolgirl basketball player while at St. Joseph by-the-Sea, Radice was also the first female runner to qualify for the Kinney national high school cross-country championships.(Read more...)