Two local coaches set to be honored

Campus Magnet basketball coach Charles Granby and Holy Cross football coach Tom Pugh have each spent more than the last three decades mentoring and developing young athletes.
Their work has not gone unnoticed. They will each be honored at the ninth annual Frank McGuire Foundation awards ceremony for exemplifying “integrity, achievement, and a continual quest for excellence from themselves and their athletes,” at the New York Athletic Club on November 7. The Frank McGuire Foundation will donate $5,000 in grants to the respective schools’ athletic programs.
“It’s not about your wins and losses; it’s about what you’ve done,” Pugh said. “It’s very nice, it’s a great feeling. It’s a great honor. All I can say is I’ve had great people around me coaching. I’ve been lucky to coach some great kids.”
“This is a great surprise,” he added. “I am really touched.”
In 35 years at the Flushing school, Pugh is 177-167, with nine city championships. He has sent nine players to the NFL and hundreds to play some level of college football.
In 38 years, Granby has won over 600 games, led the Bulldogs to one city championship in 1985 and seven borough titles, and was recently inducted into the New York State Basketball Hall of Fame.
The two join other record-breaking coaches honored by the Frank McGuire Foundation such as St. John’s Prep’s Jim Gatto, Archbishop Molloy’s Jack Curran, Cardinal Hayes’s Tom Murray and many more.