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Tom Canty
Elected in 1988 ... 1957 Suffern H.S. graduate ... wrestling coach who produced a string of champions at Ramapo and Pearl River high schools ... at Ramapo, he started the program in 1969, and by 1972, the Gryphons had won the New York State title ... they also won a County title in 1974 and three Section 9 crowns ... Ramapo had 13 state place-winners in 13 years under Canty, and five of his wrestlers earned All-America berths ... at Pearl River from 1962 to ‘67, Canty led the Pirates to two County titles and a victory that snapped Suffern’s 87-match winning streak ... when he left coaching in 1980, he had produced 40 County, 28 Section 9 and four New York State individual champions ... he was influential in starting summer freestyle wrestling in Rockland and Section 9, and coached the New York State team at the national freestyle championships in 1973 and ‘74 ... as a wrestler at Suffern, Canty won County and Section 9 titles in 1956 and ‘57 ... came out of retirement a few years ago to coach the East Ramapo (combined Spring Valley and Ramapo) wrestling team.
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Jim Cann
Jim Cann wasn't quick like a Barry Sanders or an Emmit Smith. But he was quick enough to rocket through the slimmest of openings. He wasn't bruising like a Jim Brown or a Terrell Davis. But he was strong enough to run over tacklers. Couple that witha commanding sense of vision and a nose for the end zone and you have one of the greatest running backs in Rockaldn scholastic football history.
Cann, a 1986-Clarkstown South graduate, was like a runaway locomotive when paydirt was in sight. he holds Rockland career scoring records of 52 touchdowns and 321 points, set from 1983 to 1985. Cann rushed for 2,802 yards, earned All-County honors all three seasons, and capped his senior year by being named New York State Sports Writers Association, as well as first team All-State fullback.
Jim Cann's finest hour - to be precise, his finest 18 minutes 49 seconds - came during South's 54-6 victory over archrival Clarkstown North the last regular season game of his juinor year. Rarely on a Rokcland gridiron has one player so dominated a game: seven touchdowns, including five in one quarter, tying state marks in both categories. South coach Mo Scro took Cann out of the game to spare North further embarrassment. |
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MIKE CARROLL
For twenty-two years Mike Carroll was the girl’s volleyball coach at North Rockland High School. He set a standard by which other coaches and athletic programs in Rockland County will be measured. During those twentytwo years Mike’s record was 371 wins and only 40 losses. Along the way Mike and the North Rockland Girls collected 15 league and county titles, 14 sectional titles, made it to the New York State final four 8 times, was a state finalist 6 times, and ultimately won the New York State Girls Volleyball Championship twice, once in 1996 and again in 2000. From 1992 through 2000 the North Rockland girl’s volleyball team won every league and sectional match that they played. During that time their only losses came in the regional or state tournaments.
Although Mike’s record is outstanding, the degree of one’s success is not always measured in wins and losses, but in the influence one has had on other people who have come in contact with him. Mike was responsible for the development of many future coaches. Most notable are, Tony Bonilla at SUNY New Paltz, Andrea Natale at Hofstra University, Collette Pawlyk at Dominican College, and Ed Hurley at North Rockland.
Under Mike’s tenure at North Rockland thirty-nine women have received athletic scholarships to play volleyball in college. Mike’s girls have been awarded more Division One scholarships (22) than any other coach in Rockland County. His colleagues have recognized Mike’s talent by voting him the Rockland County Coach of the Year 14 times and Mike was named the Regional (New York, New Jersey, & New England) Coach of the Year by the National Federation of Interscholastic High School Coaches in 1998.
Although Mike is best known as a girls’ high school volleyball coach he was also involved in other aspects of coaching. Mike coached the U.S.A. Club volleyball teams for sixteen years, thirteen with the girls and three with the boys. During that time Mike won three girls regional championships.
From 1973 to 1983 Mike was the North Rockland boys’ volleyball coach and amassed nine Rockland County titles, and six Section Nine championships. Mike was an active coach in the Empire Games for three years. From 1981 to 1983 Mike was the Boys Scholastic volleyball coach and his team medaled each year. In 1980 and 1981 Mike took on the job as swimming coach for Pearl River and coached two girls to the state finals, one being a state champion and both young ladies went on to receive full scholarships at Division One schools.
Mike’s record of success as a girl’s volleyball coach at North Rockland ranks him among the most elite coaches in the history of Rockland county athletics and we welcome Mike into the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Joe Casarella
The most successful high school football coach in the annals of Rockland would appear to have many alter egos. many people know him as the man who has led North Rockland High School's football team to a 19-year record of 160-22-1; 11 league, 11 bowl and 10 section 1 (Rockland, Westchester, Putna, Dutchess counties) titles; the large-schools championship in the first New York State football playoffs in 1993; and advancement to the title game again in 1994.
He also owns the highest winning percentage (.879) of New York State football coaches with more than 100 wins, and has been the Coach of the Year in Rockland 13 times, in New York State twice, and, in 1997, nationally, as chosen by the National Federation of Interscholastic Coaches Association.
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Augusta Bradley Chapman
Elected in 1977 ... lifelong Nyack resident (1875-1949) ... one of the finest women’s tennis players nationally of her era ... won more than 60 championships on the local, regional and national levels during a 30-plus-year career ... there was no professional tour when she played, so rather than money she earned scores of silver cups, trophies, engraved bowls, clocks, watches, plates and other awards ... finished second in the U.S. Open women’s doubles with partner Mrs. Marshall McLean in 1915 ... won the 1917 Patriotic Tennis Tournament doubles with McLean, the equivalent of the U.S.Open that year ... won the mixed doubles title the same year with Nathaniel Niles ... won the Hudson River Tennis Association Lawn Tennis Association singles championships seven times ... was selected to the Wightman Cup team, representing the U.S. against England ... won the New Jersey state singles title and the Nyack Country Club title in an era when nationally ranked players routinely competed at Nyack Country Club. |
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Don Clancy
Inducted in 1990 ... 1963 Nyack H.S. graduate ... one of the top sprinters in Rockland track and field history ... nicknamed “Dashin’ Don” ... seven-time County champion in the sprints and relays ... slow starter at a lanky 6-feet-2, but great acceleration ... at the County championships in ‘63, he won the 100- and 220-yard dashes in Rockland record times, 9.8 and 22.0, respectively ... duplicated that double dash victory in the Section 9 meet... from 1961-63, he swept the 100 and 220 at the Section 9 Class A meet ... capped sterling four-year career by finishing third in the New York State championships in 9.75, just .05 out of first ... had many memorable duels with Spring Valley’s Jim Ashcroft, a fellow Hall of Famer ... in football, Clancy was a safety and second-team All-County running back in 1962, when Nyack shared the county title with Haverstraw ... at the University of Miami, Clancy tied the school record in the 100, 9.6 ... a former officer with the Nyack Police Department, Clancy died in 1993 at age 49 after suffering from a brain tumor. |
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Tom Collins
Enshrined in 1994 ... 1964 Albertus Magnus H.S. alumnus ... Valley Cottage native, Pearl River resident for the past 27 years ... for many years, Collins’s name was synonymous with Albertus ... four-year All-County baseball player for the Falcons, and a key member of the 1963-64 basketball team that went undefeated against Rockland schools ... Collins was head basketball coach and athletic director at Albertus for 24 years ... his basketball teams won 400 games in that span — ranking him second among Rockland coaches in career wins in that sport — as well as 18 league, county, Section 9 or state regional titles ... his 1979 team went all the way to the state Class B finals ... Collins also coached baseball, soccer and golf at Albertus ... in his 10 years as baseball coach, the Falcons won more than 100 games and two Section 9 titles ... he compiled 70 wins in eight soccer seasons, and more than 100 wins in 10 golf campaigns ... as athletic director, Collins increased the number of varsity sports at Albertus from three to 16... he also takes pride in spearheading the admittance of Albertus, the county’s only Catholic high school, into the Rockland PSAL in 1971 ... he has been the county’s Catholic Youth Organization director since 1987 ... president of the Rockland PSAL in 1982 ... Collins is in his sixth year as Pearl River High athletic director.
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Rich Conklin
Successful high school atheltic programs are built upon many pillars. Chief among them is continuity in the coaching staff. Without a dedicated coach to anchor a program through its growing pains, long term prosperity is difficult to come by.
At Nanuet High School, that anchor is Rich Conklin. For 29 years - the past 24 as head coach - Conklin has molded young football players and wrestlers into fine athletes and finer people. In the land of the Golden Knights, Conklin is the weathervane: he sets teh direction of his programs and follows through with a winnin formula patented over three decades of sustained excellence.
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Ralph Consiglio
Elected in 1989 ... Suffern H.S., class of 1949 ... nicknamed “Blacky” for his jet-black hair ... All-County football player for the Mounties in 1948 and ‘49, leading Suffern to Rockland co-championship with Pearl River ... led the county in scoring in ‘49 ... two-year varsity basketball player ... during a four-year varsity career in track, he set school records in the long jump and hurdles, and ran on the mile relay at the prestigious Penn Relays... Cordisco earned his greatest fame as Suffern’s head football coach from 1965 to 1984 ... he posted a record of 98 wins, 69 losses and 6 ties, with County championship seasons in 1975 and 1979 (9-0) ... team won its division in 1969 and the county large-school conference in 1983 ... was Rockland PSAL coach of the year in 1975, ‘79 and ‘83, and New York Daily News coach of the year in ‘75 and ‘79 ... was also Suffern’s head track coach from 1962 to ‘68 and head skiing coach from 1974 to ‘88 ... his boys’ and girls’ ski teams were Rockland division champs from 1980 to ‘84 ... during college career at two schools (Arnold College, 1950-53, University of Bridgeport, 1953-54), he played varsity football three years, was team co-captain in his senior year, and ran varsity track (hurdles, 440-yard dash) for three years ... was also an all-star pitcher during a 23-year recreation softball career with many teams in fast-pitch leagues. |
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Ralph Cordisco
Inducted in 1984 ... 1937 graduate of Haverstraw H.S. ... born and raised in Haverstraw, continues to be a fixture in the North Rockland community ... a member of Haverstraw High’s first football team in 1933, he won four varsity football letters, was a three-time All-County basketball player, and won two varsity letters each in baseball and track ... from 1956 through 1979, Cordisco coached the Haverstraw and North Rockland football teams to a record of 123 wins, 50 losses and 8 ties, winning five Rockland PSAL titles and two co-championships, and had a winning streak of 27 games from 1970 to ‘72 ... he was chosen Rockland coach of the year in football six times, and the New York Daily News coach of the year six times ... led the school’s basketball teams to five County PSAL titles from 1950 to ‘57, and was coach of the year four times ... he is also the school’s longtime golf coach ... Cordisco also was the school district’s director of athletics for many years ... he attended Syracuse University on a full scholarship and earned three varsity football awards there ... he has held numerous administrative positions in athletics, including president of the Rockland PSAL from 1965 to ‘77 ... recipient of National High School Athletic Director of the Year for 1982, sponsored by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association.
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Frank Cosentino
Installed in 1979 ... graduated first in his class, Tappan Zee H.S. 1951 ... outstanding four-sport athlete for the Flying Dutchmen ... captained the football, baseball, basketball and golf teams ... two-time All-County performer in both football and basketball, and also made All-County in baseball ... he won the Section 9 golf title and placed third in the New York State tournament his senior year ... held the Rockland PSAL record for lowest-scoring round of golf, 75 ... made All-County golf team three years in a row ... at Princeton University, Cosentino was captain of the golf team and the No.2 man for four years ... he helped lead Princeton to the Ivy League championship in his senior year, 1956 ... also played three years of varsity football at Princeton, and was the starting quarterback his junior year ... was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1956, but declined to pursue a pro career, belie-ing that he was not big enough (6-feet, 180 lbs.) or fast enough ... became president of Edward Marshall Boehm Inc., a porcelain artwork company in Trenton, N.J.
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