Baltimore Catholic League inducts 10 into 2024 Hall of Fame class - Catholic Review (2024)

ELLICOTT CITY — University of Arkansas basketball coach John Calipari says the Baltimore Catholic League continuously produces some of the best players in the nation.

When he was at Kentucky, Calipari was able to coach one of the league’s greatest players, John Carroll graduate Immanuel Quickley, who was honored June 20 as part of the BCL’s 2024 Hall of Fame class.

Calipari, a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, was the keynote speaker at the Baltimore Catholic League Hall of Fame ceremony at Turf Valley Resort. The BCL honored 10 of its standouts at the ceremony and banquet.

“I followed the league and watched the coaching,” said Calipari, who has guided six teams to the Final Four and led Kentucky to a national championship in 2012 before leaving this winter for Arkansas. “The players that come out of the league, you know they’re well coached. They understand [the game]. It’s a good thing.”

Calipari has helped 58 players earn selection in the NBA Draft during his 32-year college coaching career, including Quickley, who plays for the Toronto Raptors. Quickley was excited to be reunited with Calipari at the Hall of Fame induction.

“Little different now that he is at Arkansas, but he is still the same person, still the same great coach,” Quickley said. “It’s good to see my guy come back and support something that I had been a part of.”

The other members of this year’s inductees were Will Bowers (Archbishop Spalding, 2003), Chris Clunie (Loyola Blakefield, 2002), Tim Coles (Cardinal Gibbons, 1982), Bob Connor (Mount St. Joseph, 1967), Malcolm Delaney (Towson Catholic,2007), Mark Kauffman (Calvert Hall, 1982), Jim Martin, administrator (St. Maria Goretti), John Miller (Mount St. Joseph 1986) and Sean Mosley (St. Frances, 2008).

Kauffman is one of seven players in the BCL Hall of Fame from the 1982 Calvert Hall team that won a national championship, consisting of Paul Edwards III (BCL Class of 2011), Marc Wilson (2011), Duane Ferrell (2011), Coach Mark Amatucci (2012), Pop Tubman (2016) and Eddie Oliver (2023).

It has been 42 years since Kauffman was on the championship team that dedicated that title to fallen teammate Paul Kinney, who wore No. 42. Kinney died in 1980 after suffering a heart attack during a preseason scrimmage against Parkville.

“It’s just terrific,” Kauffman said. ”There were a lot of great players, great coaching and we had a lot of fun. We took care of business. I looked forward to hopefully getting in for 10, 20 years. Now that I am 60, 42 years later from the national championship team … ironically, Paul Kinney was No. 42, so 42 years later Paul Kinney is still with us.”

BCL Commissioner Jack Degele said some of the players inducted this year represent a changing of the guard.

“It’s one of our most prolific classes because we have some many younger guys, like Mosley and (Quickley),” Degele said. “We started out trying to get the older guys first because that’s what [Loyola Blakefield Hall of Fame coach] Jerry Savage always said to do. Now, we are starting to introduce some of the younger guys.”

A look at the Baltimore Catholic League 2024 Hall of Fame Class

— Will Bowers, Archbishop Spalding 2003

Bowers finished his Spalding career with 1,100 career points, and he played in the Charm City Challenge and Jordan Capital Classic games. After graduating, Bowers played at the University of Maryland for legendary Terps coach Gary Williams. During his four years in College Park, he appeared in 116 games, including all 66 of his junior and senior seasons as the Terps went 83-47 overall. Maryland made the 2004 NCAA Tournament after a 20-12 season, and the Terrapins captured the ACC Tournament for the first time since 1984.

— Chris Clunie, Loyola 2002

The 6-foot-3 forward scored 1,427 points, and he still ranks as the third all-time leading scorer in Loyola history behind Dons BCL Hall of Famers Tony Guy (1978) and Pete Budko (1977). Clunie was a three-time All-BCL honoree as a sophom*ore, a junior, and senior. After Loyola, Chris attended Davidson, where he played for legendary Wildcats coach Bob McKillop and was a teammate of current Davidson coach Matt McKillop. After Davidson, Chris played one season professionally in South Africa. In 2007, he joined the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs in corporate development before joining the NBA league office in 2008.

— Tim Coles, Cardinal Gibbons 1982

Coles was a three-year varsity starter for BCL Hall of Fame coach Ray Mullis and assistant coach Bryan Moorhouse at the now closed Cardinal Gibbons. Coles contributed to a rare one-school sweep of BCL championships by the freshman, junior varsity and varsity squads. He is one of only two players in Gibbons’ storied basketball program to score over 1,000 points and collect over 1,000 rebounds during his career. Coles went on to play four seasons for Dom Perno at the University of Connecticut where scored 1,016 points, grabbed 804 rebounds, and shot 50.3% from the floor.

— Bobby Connor, Mount St. Joseph 1967

In his senior year, Connor averaged 25.7 points per game, which was second in the MSA A Conference, including a 40-point effort against Poly. The Gaels went 20-5 overall and won both the Catholic League and MSA Division I crowns. Connor chose to attend Loyola College, where he finished his career with 1,431 points, which was second most in school history at the time of his graduation.

— Malcolm Delaney, Towson Catholic 2007

Delaney finished his four-year high school career at now closed Towson Catholic and McDonogh with 2,112 points. He was named to the All-BCL Second 25 Years Team (1996-2021) by the Baltimore Sun, one of just 12 players to be so recognized. After graduating, Delaney played for Virginia Tech where he scored 2,255 points (ranking third in school history behind only Bimbo Coles and Dell Curry) and is first in Hokies career statistical categories of most minutes played (4,688), free throws made (721), free throws attempted (853) and free throw percentage (84.5).

— Mark Kauffman, Calvert Hall 1982

Kauffman was a three-sport athlete at Calvert Hall where he accumulated eight varsity letters over his career. The Cardinals were 91-5 overall during his three-year varsity tenure, including three Baltimore Catholic League regular season championships, three BCL Tournament championships, and three Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament appearances. During that 1981-82 national title season, Kauffman played a key role against some of the best opponents the Cardinals faced. He attended what is Towson University, where he played football for coach Phil Albert and basketball for coach Terry Truax.

— James Martin, St. Maria Goretti, Administrator

Martin first stepped on the Goretti campus in Hagerstown in 1969 fresh after graduation from Mount St. Mary’s in Emmitsburg. He was a student teacher at Goretti in the spring of his senior year before he was offered a full-time position at the school. He came to teach math, and those skills would come in handy for the Gaels athletic department, and specifically the boys basketball program, before long. For 55 school years, Martin answered the call and used his voice as part of St. Maria Goretti High School as a teacher and coach and for the Gaels’ boys basketball program. Now, he joins those great Goretti names as a BCL Hall of Fame inductee.

— John Miller, Mount St. Joseph 1986

A three-year varsity player for the Gaels, Miller blossomed in his junior season in 1984-85. He averaged 18 points and six rebounds per game on a team that finished 16-14 overall. As a senior in 1985-86, Miller and his teammates led the Gaels to a 20-11 overall record, the most wins for the MSJ program in a decade. The Gaels finished second in the BCL regular season behind St. Maria Goretti. Miller attended West Virginia where he played 18 games in his freshman season before transferring to Mount St. Mary’s. After sitting out the 1987-88 season, he played in 74 games over the next three seasons, shooting 80 percent from the foul line (still the school’s fifth-best career mark) and hitting 73 3-pointers on the way to 1,042 career points with the Mountaineers.

— Sean Mosley, St. Frances 2008

Mosley paced the Panthers to a 93-46 record, including 20-plus win seasons in his sophom*ore, junior and senior seasons. Mosley capped his career in 2007-08 as the league’s 2008 Jerry Savage BCL Co-Player of the Year award winner. He led the Panthers to the 2008 BCL Tournament title that included a victory over top-seeded Mount St. Joseph 66-61 in a game where he scored 35 points to claim John M. Plevyak MVP honors for the second time. Following his senior season, he was the Baltimore Sun All-Metro Player of the Year and the 2008 Gatorade Maryland Player of the Year. Mosley played at Maryland for coach Gary Williams. He played in 132 games for Maryland and was a captain in his junior and senior seasons. Over his Maryland career, he scored 1,103 points, grabbed 578 rebounds, had 269 assists, and made 150 steals. Mosley received his degree in communications from Maryland, and he went on to play several years of professional basketball overseas including in Poland, Italy, Germany, Israel, Dubai, and France.

— Immanuel Quickley, John Carroll 2018

As a senior, Quickley averaged 20.8 points, 6.7 rebounds, 6.7 assists, and 3.7 steals, leading John Carroll to the MIAA A Conference championship with a victory over Calvert Hall, and overtime victories over both Mount St. Joseph in the semifinals and Boys’ Latin in the championship game. He was voted to first team All-BCL honors and was named to USA Today’s All-USA Maryland first team. He capped his high school career as a 2018 McDonald’s All-American, and he was later named to the Baltimore Sun’s All-BCL Second 25 Years team (1996-2021). Quickley attended Kentucky, where he played for Calipari, his U.S. National Team Under-19 coach. He had a breakout sophom*ore season in 2019-20 averaging 16.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 1.9 assists per game to lead the Wildcats to a 25-6 overall record and the Southeastern Conference regular season title with a 15-3 mark. The Oklahoma City Thunder selected him in the first round (No. 25 overall) of the 2020 NBA Draft and he was traded to the New York Knicks. In four seasons with the Knicks, the 6-3 guard averaged 12.9 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.0 assists. On Dec. 23, 2023, he was traded to the Toronto Raptors, and he averaged career-bests of 18.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 6.8 assists during the 2023-24 season.

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