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…
Leave a CommentAfter 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.”
1 CommentRather than create a cult of personality around himself, former Pirate baseball player Craig Biggio played hard and respected the game. He ended his pro career in elite historical company.
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Leave a CommentThe way Coach Kevin Willard sees it, basketball imparts important lessons about life — on and off the court. Kevin Willard’s ascent as a basketball coach has been both rapid and unusual. Seton Hall’s new men’s coach, just 35, grew up in Northport, Long Island, the son of Ralph Willard, a high-school basketball coach who…
Leave a CommentBasketball star Anne Donovan returns to her New Jersey roots to coach at Seton Hall. Basketball legend Anne Donovan is a Hall of Famer, winner of two Olympic gold medals, a successful WNBA coach for 14 seasons, and Seton Hall‘s new women‘s coach. But 35 years ago — as a freshman at nearby Paramus Catholic…
Leave a CommentIn 1989, the NCAA Championship slipped away from the Pirates by the closest of margins. A look back at the drama of that momentous season.
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