Jack Curran
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Jack Curran is the current baseball and basketball head coach at Archbishop Molloy High School. Since he took over from Lou Carnesecca in 1958, he guided the Archbishop Molloy baseball varsity to more than 1,300 wins and 17 CHSAA titles, while coaching the basketball varsity to more than 870 wins and 5 city titles. Among his former players are former NBA players Brian Winters, Kevin Joyce, Kenny Smith, Robert Werdann, and Kenny Anderson. In 1966, Curran coached Molloy baseball to win 68 consecutive games, a national record which would stand until April 2, 2005. Curran is the only coach to be named National Coach of the Year in two different sports: basketball in 1990 and baseball in 1988. He has been named CHSAA Coach of the Year 25 times in baseball, 22 times in basketball, won city championships in three different decades and has been elected into seven different Hall of Fames, including the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. One of his former assistants, Norm Roberts, is the current men's basketball head coach of St. John's University.
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