Anthony Oglesby is considered the top male-athlete in St. Edmund Prep school history – and he is the first CHSAA All-League basketball performer in the school’s history.
A member of both the class of 1998, and the St. Edmund Prep Board of Trustees, he played basketball at the University of New Hampshire and latter at Plymouth State University.
Oglesby is one of six new members entering the fifth-ever group of St. Edmund Prep Hall of Famers.
Jalilissa Marcus, Class of 2013 was a New York State finalist in both indoor and outdoor track as a junior and a senior. The long-jump was her top event, Marcus qualified for all major invitationals meet during her high school career.
A 10-time finalist in the Colgate Women’s Games, she still holds the GCHSAA indoor long-jump record. She competed at the Nike Indoor Nationals and was a long-jump All-American, while attending Bethune-Cookman University.
Currently, Marcus is head track coach at Port Orange Atlantic High School, Florida, and was recently named Gatorade Coach of the Year.
Diane Buono-Haslacher, a 2002 graduate was a four-year member of the Eagles’ varsity basketball team – serving as team captain — and led them to the 2002 GCHSAA Brooklyn-Queens Division I championship.
A career 1,000-plus-point-scorer, she weas named St. Edmund’s Female Athlete of the Year as a senior.
She received a full scholarship to St. Thomas Aquinas College – the very first for a St. Edmund Prep student-athlete in some 12 years.
Joseph Burke was a baseball star for St. Edmund Prep. The 2001 graduate still holds two offensive records for the school – hitting four home-runs in a single-game and garnering six hits in a game.
He was an All-American performer at Nassau Community College and earned a scholarship to St. John’s University, where he won back-to-back All-Big East Conference honors. St. John’s won the Big East tournament in 2005 and appeared in the NCAA Tournament. The New York Yankees selected Burke in the…
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