CYO Basketball
- Following in his brothers footsteps, 8th Grade Boys team, Steven Gessner, has made the Mineola High School Junior Varsity Team. Steven also plays for the Long Island Lightning.
-Congrats and Good Luck to former Corpus Christi Clinic "Director" Sean O'Connor. Sean has been named Assitant Coach at Adelphi University.
Sean O'Connor is entering his first season on the sidelines at Adelphi University as an assistant coach. He brings over two decades of basketball experience with him to Adelphi.
O'Connor, a St. John's University alumnus, comes to Adelphi after a one year stint as the head coach at Mercy College, who compete in the East Coast Conference. Prior to Mercy College O'Connor was an assistant coach at Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York.
He also rebuilt the St. Mary's High School women's basketball program. In O'Connor's first season at the helm he ended a ten-year drought by making the playoffs and did so every season during his five-year tenure.
O'Connor has also managed many camps and clinics, including Corpus Christi Parish Basketball Clinic in Mineola. He supervised all aspects of the clinic which had over 100 boys and girls. In this role, he started several community outreach initiatives.
He also worked with the Hope Thru Hoops Foundation, specializing in fundraising for athletic scholarships. O'Connor was instrumental in building the St. Andrew's Avellino Catholic Youth Organization boys basketball program. They won six consecutive league championships under his tutelage from 1995-2001 and went to three diocesan finals.
O'Connor was a camp counselor at the Hofstra University Basketball Camp, where he assisted with coaching, refereeing and supervision of camp attendees. He coached the Rising Stars (boys) and LI Xtreme (girls) AAU programs.
He started his coaching career in 1987 for his alma mater, Monsignor Scanlan High School in the Bronx, as an assistant men's varsity basketball coach. He played four years at Scanlan and then moved onto St. John's University where he played for two seasons with the junior varsity-club program.
O'Connor earned his bachelor's of science degree in Biology from St. John's University. In 1998 he received a master's of public administration from Marist College and he graduated from the FBI National Academy in 2003.
- Corpus Christi CYO Alumni, TJ Gessner, is currently a sophomore playing for the Lions at Molloy College. TJ, keep making us proud on and off the basketball court!
#24 - T.J. Gessner
2009-10: Played in 12 contests…Registered three rebounds and two points against C.W. Post on Jan. 27…Collected two points and a pair of rebounds in a 106-93 victory against Mercy College on Jan. 30…Recorded a three-point effort with two steals in a 100-75 win over Mercy on Jan. 24.
2008-09: Appeared in 23 games (one start)…Netted his first career points in a season-opening 72-67 win at Caldwell College on Nov. 15…Registered two points and had three assists versus Dominican College on Nov. 25…Dished out three assists in an 86-61 victory at Mercy College on Jan. 31…Passed off four assists against Queens College on Feb. 25…Pulled down three rebounds in a contest against Adelphi on Feb. 14.
Prior to Molloy: Played basketball, baseball, football and soccer at Mineola High School…Won the Reggie Carter Award in 2008.
Personal Info: Has two siblings, Heather and Steven…Son of Keith and Nancy Gessner…Majoring in English Education
- 5th Grade Boys Team, Daniel Braster, starred for the 9U AAU Long Island Lightning. Playing to highly competitive tournaments, he and his family traveled to Iona College, Siena College and Keene College for games.
