QUEENS, N.Y. (July 13, 2010) – St. John’s University’s Official Athletics Website, www.RedStormSports.com, has announced the addition of up-and-coming New York area sportswriter, blogger and social media enthusiast Susan Shan to its cast of contributors. Shan will provide written content and serve as an on-camera host, announcer, anchor and reporter for RedStormSports.com’s StormTracker All-Access live and on-demand video platform. “RedStormSports.com is coming off of a record-breaking year in 2009-10, breaking its all-time traffic record by more than 750,000 total page views and increasing its unique visitors by an average of more than 11,000 per month,” reported Ralph Bednarczyk, St. John’s Director of Multimedia … [Read more...]

QUEENS, N.Y. (June 24, 2010) – St. John's and the BIG EAST Conference announced the 2010-11 league matchups for the Red Storm men's basketball team on Thursday. St. John's will take part in home-and-home series with Georgetown, Notre Dame and Cincinnati during the upcoming season, and will meet the remaining BIG EAST league opponents once either at home or on the road. In 2010-11, the BIG EAST will once again play an 18-game conference schedule, in which teams face 12 opponents once and three teams twice. It will mark the fourth year of the 18-game schedule, which began for the 2007-08 season. All 144 regular-season conference games will once again be televised, either by CBS Sports, the ESPN family of networks or ESPN Regional … [Read more...]

QUEENS, N.Y. (June 21, 2010) – Head coach Steve Lavin and the St. John’s men’s basketball staff will host a two-day Shooting Clinic for boys, grades 1-12, on June 29-30 at Taffner Field House. "In addition to our traditional week long summer basketball camps held in August, we will also be holding a clinic that will focus specifically on the skill of shooting," said Lavin. The clinic is open to all boys, grades 1-12. Clinic participants will be grouped by grade (1-5, 6-8, 9-12) to maximize skill development. The St. John’s coaching staff – touted as one of the “most diverse and specialized staffs in the country” – will serve as clinic instructors. The staff includes assistant coaches Mike Dunlap (who coached at … [Read more...]

QUEENS, N.Y. (June 15, 2010) – Steve Lavin’s formidable basketball staff is nearing completion, as the St. John’s head men’s coach announced the addition of veteran mentor Mike Dunlap as the latest member of the Red Storm’s bench as an assistant coach. Dunlap, who has built a reputation as one of professional and college basketball’s leading strategists and on-court instructors, joins a group that is shaping up to be one of the country’s elite hardwood staffs. “I have known Mike Dunlap since I was a student-athlete at Chapman University, and over the past 25 years he has developed into one of the game’s most-respected teachers,” said Lavin. “Mike is a sound tactician with a deep understanding of the game and … [Read more...]

QUEENS, N.Y. (June 5, 2010) – John Wooden, college basketball's gentlemanly Wizard of Westwood who built one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports at UCLA and became one of the most revered coaches ever, has died. He was 99 years old. UCLA reported that Wooden died Friday night of natural causes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized since May 26. St. John’s mentor Steve Lavin forged his coaching career over 15 years in head and assistant roles at both UCLA and Purdue University; the former is the program with which Wooden is most-closely associated, and the later is Wooden’s alma mater. Lavin served as the head coach of UCLA from the 1996-97 to 2002-03 seasons and spent 12 years with the … [Read more...]