Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame announces Class of '23

The Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame will induct its Class of 2023 at its 41^st induction banquet on Oct. 24 at Auletto’s Ballroom in Deptford.

Tickets are available by contacting Gus Ostrum at gostrum1981@gmail.com or by calling (609) 502-0424.

The 12 new inductees are:

• Robert Mannino. The Glassboro native was a successful girls’ soccer coach with 293 wins, was named Courier-Post Girls’ Soccer Coach of the Century in 1999, won a sectional title with Schalick in 2021 and was a high school athletic director.

• Chris Sheppard. A long-time volleyball coach at Williamstown High School.

• Debroah Slenkamp. A longtime and successful tennis coach at Pitman High School.

• Katie Trotter. A standout softball pitcher at Williamstown High School, Rowan College and Rowan University.

• Kim Smith-Bey. A standout basketball and track athlete for Glassboro High School during the mid-1980s.

• Meghan Nowak. A star basketball player who finished her career with 2,057 points for Gateway High School.

• Ted Malinoski. A two sport star in basketball and baseball at Pitman High School, Malinoski played baseball at St. Joseph’s University.

• Jennifer Scaffidi Grassel. The former Washington Township High School basketball standout is now an administrator in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association.

• Derek Ward. A two-sport star in track and football at Kingsway Regional High School, Ward also competed in both sports at Rutgers University.

• Tim Cammarota. A long-time South Jersey soccer coach with over 200 wins on his resume, Cammarota was also an athletic director at West Deptford High School.

• Greg Sawyer. After a standout career on the mat at Delsea Regional High School and Rider University, Sawyer returned to his alma mater where he has lifted the Crusaders into one of the perennial powerhouses in the state.

• Robert Moore. He guided Gateway High School softball to its only state championship in 1978 before moving on to coach the sport at the collegiate level.

Tom McGurk is a regional sports editor for the Courier-Post, The Daily Journal and Burlington County Times, covering South Jersey sports for over 30 years. If you have a sports story that needs to be told, contact him at (856) 486-2420 or email tmcgurk@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @McGurkSports. Help support local journalism with a digital subscription.

This article originally appeared on Cherry Hill Courier-Post: Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame to induct Class of 2023