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Petosa, the Advance’s Sportsman of the Year, followed Island coaching icons Evan Pickman and HowieRuppert at CSI, and had another by his side in Matty White while he maintained improbable success with thebusiest side job in the country.Ambrosino received the Service Award for what is approaching 40 years of sustaining Laurie’s legacy with abasketball game that turned into an annual scholarship and an Intermediate School that bears Laurie’sname.“I never did it expecting anything likethat,” said Ambrosino as he accepted theaward. “I did it because Rocco was myfriend.”So Ambrosino started with a basketballgame, cops from the 9th Precinct againstteachers from Markham IntermediateSchool, where he and Laurie wereclassmates. They sold 714 tickets for adollar each and put the money in a freezerAdvance Service Award recipient Larry Ambrosino makes a point.for safe-keeping.A few years later, in 1975, they named thenew Intermediate School going up in New Springville, I.S. 72, the Rocco Laurie School. Thirty years later,Ambrosino pushed for a change, to call it the Police Officer Rocco Laurie School.And each year he goes back to talk to a new group of incoming sixth graders to tell them about his friend,the champion shot putter and decorated United States Marine.“I want to make sure they know who he is,” said Ambrosino.They all do, because of Ambrosino.You could see the same drive in Petosa, who’s into his third decade treating his second job — by day he’sbeen teaching high school for the past 25 years — like his top priority.After coaching the practices and thegames, you can catch Petosa at one Islandhigh school game after another, checkingin with coaches and players, most of whomPage 30 of 157
are looking forward to going away toschool.LASTING IMPACTBut Petosa never gives up on a tough sell.“The one thing I realized is it doesn’tmatter who you’re coaching, as long asyou’re coaching,” said Petosa. “It could bea freshman team in high school. I wouldbe OK with that.”Maybe because he loves it so much,Petosa doesn’t necessarily see what thebig deal is.EnlargeBill LyonsSt. Peter's cross country All Star Nasser Zayer helps Port Richmond'sDanielle Sorrentino, also an All Star in cross country, put on herhonorary jacket. (Staten Island Advance/Bill Lyons)Staten Island Advance All-Star Dinner -- Jan. 20, 2011 gallery (34photos)“I’m not really sure what I’ve done to deserve this award, except to do what others have done before me,”said Petosa in his acceptance speech. “For those coaches who, win or lose, come back and try to do it a littlebetter the next day, I don’t think I’m any different from those people.”But the Tournament of Heroes is different.In February of 2002, Petosa retired the numbers belonging to Hannafin, Davidson and Aiken. The framedjerseys hang on the walkway overlooking the court at CSI’s Sports and Recreation Center.It wasn’t enough.Petosa wanted something with an impact. Something that wouldn’t fade. So he came up with theTournament of Heroes, a four-team field each year between Christmas and New Year’s, inviting top-notchDivision III teams to Staten Island.He and Jason Fein and Dave Pizzuto put in the extra time to build it from scratch. They made the impactPetosa envisioned.He got it to five years, just like Ambrosino once hoped to do with the Laurie game, and then to 10. He’llkeep it going as long as he can. Maybe down the road he’ll look back and find, as Ambrosino said, that “somany good things have happened” in the name of friends lost, but not forgotten.Page 31 of 157
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