Basketball
Jim Signorile
Jim Signorile, a 6-8 center from New Dorp High School, was NYU’s leading scorer and rebounder in 1969 and 1970, and the team MVP. He scored 1,235 career points – 50 of them in one game, a school record. Drafted by the Knicks and Carolina Cougars, Signorile played six seasons of professional basketball in Europe, averaging 40 points a game, and scored 101 points one night in the French Basketball League.(Read more...)
Duane Singleton
The Island has had other high school athletes who excelled in baseball and basketball, but only one, Duane Singleton, who scored 1,000 points on the hardwood, and then became a Major League centerfielder. Drafted straight out of McKee/Staten Island Tech by the Milwaukee Brewers in the fifth round of the 1992 amateur draft, when he was 17, Singleton played 33 big-league games with the Brewers and the Detroit Tigers when he was still a teenager. (Read more...)
James Sparrow
James Sparrow set scoring records at McKee High School, where he was the school’s first 1,000-point scorer; at Laurinburg (N.C.) Institute, where he broke Basketball Hall of Famer Charlie Scott’s records; and at North Carolina A&T, where he scored 1,986 career points. A three-time All-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference player and 1976 MEAC Player of the year, Sparrow led the Aggies to four regular-season and conference tournament titles. His record 30-point tournament scoring average, set in 1976, (Read more...)
St. Peter’s High School 1983 Basketball Team
The 1983 St. Peter’s High School team, winner of the CHSAA city championship, is the only Stten Island boys’ basketball team – public or parochial – to win a city championship. Led by coach Howie Ruppert, do-it-all guard Greg Pedro, and a core of determined blue-collar players – Scott Fitzgibbons, Mike Dunn, John Walsh, Ed Conroy and Mike Sanborn, who replaced the injured Danny Mills in the lineup – the Eagles won three of their (Read more...)
Bob Steele
Bob Steele was a mentor and role model to generations of athletes in more than a half-century as a coach and athletic director at McKee High School and Staten Island Tech, and as an assistant at the College of Staten Island. A three-time Daily News Coach of the Year, Steele won three Staten Island High School League titles in 15 seasons as the basketball coach at McKee, and an Island PSAL title in 41 seasons (Read more...)