The new Hall of Fame welcomes visitors in the Richie Regan Recreation and Athletic Center lobby.
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For a time, Joanna Borawski served as the only physical therapist at Afghanistan’s largest air base.
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Charles Grantham was named director of Seton Hall’s Center for Sport Management in 2016, succeeding Founding Director Ann Mayo. Grantham has extensive experience in professional sports, having served as executive director of the National Basketball Players Association from 1988 to 1995. As a principal negotiator, he helped to establish the league’s four historic collective bargaining…
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It didn’t take John Fanta long to make an impression on Seton Hall Vice President and Director of Athletics Pat Lyons. As a freshman, Fanta, a broadcasting wunderkind from Westlake, Ohio, sounded so good behind a microphone and proved so determined to master his craft, Lyons says he “used to kid John and say he was going to be a one-and-done.”
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Ismael “Ish” Sanogo’s importance to the Seton Hall men’s basketball team can’t be measured in a nightly box score or in the season-ending statistics. As a sophomore on the 2015-16 team, Sanogo averaged just five points per game. But without Sanogo’s contributions, the Pirates would have never become the BIG EAST Conference Tournament champions.
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Cross-country running is a far more mentally challenging sport than a physically grueling one, says senior Ryan Flannery. He sees it as a test of character.
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Those who aren’t avid volleyball fans may not know what a libero is, or its vital importance to a team’s success. But at Seton Hall, the unique defensive position has been given its due, and the Pirates have nearly perfected it.
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A second BIG EAST championship for women’s golf.
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Tony Bozzella ’89 uses his credentials and location when he sells the Seton Hall women’s basketball program to recruits. He talks about his up-tempo offense and his reputation as a players’ coach. He points to his record of turning struggling programs into winning ones. And he promotes Seton Hall itself — the academic and athletic…
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After 20 years with the Houston Astros and a storied career in baseball, former Seton Hall catcher Craig Biggio is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
On a sunny summer afternoon in Cooperstown, N.Y., the place all baseball players dream of, delivering a speech from a stage on a lush green lawn, Craig Biggio looked out onto a crowd of fans displaying the orange of the Houston Astros, the team he spent his entire career with.
But he also saw a splash of something else. “Pirate blue,” he said later.
“It didn’t go unappreciated.”
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