Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Softball

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Aileen Aponte

Aileen Aponte, who led Curtis High School to four straight city championships in softball and won an individual city championship in gymnastics, is the only athlete to win the Pegasus Award, which goes to the top public-school senior athlete in New York City, in two sports. Aponte was 18-0 as a pitcher in the playoffs at Curtis, before playing on a Princeton softball team that won three Ivy League titles, earned two NCAA Tournament berths, (Read more...)

Darlene Crowe

Darlene Crowe won a city championship at Curtis High School and an EAIAW Division II championship at C.W. Post, where she pitched to a 0.32 earned-run average in 1981 and still holds records for E.R.A, strikeouts and winning percentage. In her only season of high school softball, Crowe threw a two-hitter, a one-hitter and a no-hitter in the city playoffs, while striking out 16, 15 and 15 in successive games.(Read more...)

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Karin Muller Crowley

Karin Muller was a dominating slugger at every level of softball, right from the time she led the Snug Harbor Little League team to the Big League World Series with three game-winning tournament hits. An All-State player at Curtis High School, where she hit 26 home runs and led the Warriors to three city championships, Muller set a multitude of offensive records at the University of Connecticut, where she led the Huskies to two Big (Read more...)

Margaret Grenier

Margaret Grenier, who won seven PSAL city softball championships and five Metro Bowl titles in 22 seasons as a high school coach and blazed a path for the generations of women coaches who followed, was schooling softball players at Curtis High School before the city had a place for them to play. Her career record of 360-125 includes 10 Staten Island PSAL titles and 11 PSAL city championship-game appearances.(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...)