Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

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Softball

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...)

Cathy Morano

Cathy Morano established a legacy of relentless excellence – 10 New York City championships, including six in a row – as the softball coach at Tottenville High School. Morano’s teams won 117 straight regular-season games, a streak that stretched over parts of seven seasons, and played in 12 straight city championship games. All the while, Morano doubled as Tottenville’s basketball coach, winning 379 games in 28 seasons on the bench.(Read more...)

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Shannon Payne

Shannon Payne was a mind-bending pitcher at Port Richmond High School – where she threw four perfect games and 18 no-hitters, while pitching the Red Raiders to back-to-back city championships – and at Long Island University. Payne was a two-time Northeast Conference MVP and an All-East pitcher at LIU, and capped her career with three innings of no-hit ball against the U.S. team that won gold at the 2004 Olympics.(Read more...)

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Geraldine Saintilus

A two-sport high school star, Geraldine Saintilus was an All-Big East basketball player at Seton Hall, where she set records for scoring, rebounding and steals, and was named New Jersey Player of the Year and Big East Scholar-Athlete of the Year. At Curtis High School, Saintilus led the Warriors to three Staten Island championships and a city semifinal in basketball, and three more Island titles in softball.(Read more...)

Vin Scamardella

As a young man, Vin Scamardella was a dominating fast-pitch softball star, with 30 no-hitters and a perfect game to his credit, and a parade of suitors eager to acquire his services. But as good as he was in the circle, Scamardella’s lasting gifts to the game go far beyond strikeouts, wins, or losses. A lifelong player, umpire, and ambassador for the game, he led the drive to build the first lighted softball field on (Read more...)