Scholastic Roundup: A former Terrier enters the Hall

Frank Conroy, a former assistant basketball coach at Brooklyn’s St. Francis College, is a member of the 2023 CHSAA Hall of Fame.

Conroy, who ran track at Iona Prep (New Rochelle, NY) and taught there in 1980 is one of 10 new additions to the Hall. He coached basketball at Salesian and later at the College of Mount St. Vincent, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Greenwich High School before his stop at St. Francis.

He coached the Varsity ‘B’ team at Iona Prep in 1995 – and continues today. His teams won the CHSAA championship in 1999, 2008, 2020 and 2022. He is also a member of the Salesian and Iona Prep Hall of Fame.

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Other Hall inductees include:
Sal Fischetti, a 1983 St. Francis Prep grad who coached the girls’ varsity basketball team (1989-1996) and was named Coach of the Year in 1995 when his team won the New York State Class ‘B’ Federation championship.

Nick Melito, after a successful career as a pitcher at New York Tech, he later coached baseball at Christ the King High School. In 2000 the McClancy grad returned to his alma mater where his varsity baseball teams made the playoffs 17 consecutive seasons. In 2003 he was named Coach of the Year.

Ron Winchester, a football official for 47 years, he’s been president, treasurer and board member for the Long Island Association of Football Officials. He’s the first football official to be inducted into the CHSAA Hall of Fame.

Chris Beal led the boys’ varsity basketball team at Salesian High School to the CHSAA ‘B’ city championship in 2003.

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William Hackshaw ran on the 1985 distance medley relay team at the Penn Relays. A year earlier he was a member of the cross-country city championship team at Mount St. Michael Academy in the Bronx.
A runner at C.W. Post College, he later coached the Mount (1992-2010). His teams won five CHSAA city championships. He has since won two CHSAA titles as coach at LaSalle Academy in Manhattan.

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