Jack Curran is an American

United States

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 baseball

Baseball

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 and basketball

Basketball

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 coach. Curran is the head coach at Archbishop Molloy High School

Archbishop Molloy High School

Archbishop Molloy High School is a co-educational, college preparatory, Catholic school for grades 9-12, located on in the Briarwood section of Queens in New York City, thirty minutes east of Manhattan. Molloy currently has an endowment of about $6,000,000 . The school's current principal is Br...

 in Queens, New York. Curran has won more basketball and baseball games than any high school coach in the United States.
He has been elected into nine different Halls of Fame.

Early life and education

Jack Curran was the son of a New York City police officer.

Curran graduated in 1948 from All Hallows High School

All Hallows High School

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 in Bronx, New York. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English from St. John’s University.

Curran played minor league baseball in the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies

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 organizations.

Coaching career

Curran began coaching at Archbishop Molly High School in 1958.
During his career at Archbishop Molly, Curran has won more basketball and baseball games than any high school coach in the United States.

Among his former players are former NBA players Brian Winters

Brian Winters

Brian Joseph Winters is a former NBA guard/forward, coach and former WNBA head coach. He attended academic and athletic powerhouse Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, NY, graduating in 1970. He then played collegiately with the University of South Carolina and was the 12th pick in the 1974...

, Kevin Joyce

Kevin Joyce (basketball)

Kevin Francis Joyce is a retired American basketball player.A 6'3" guard, Joyce played at the University of South Carolina. During the 1971 ACC Tournament championship game, he out-jumped North Carolina's 6-10 Lee Dedmon with seconds left to tap the ball to a wide open Tom Owens under the basket...

, Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith

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, Robert Werdann

Robert Werdann

Robert Werdann is a retired American professional basketball player. He attended academic and athletic powerhouse Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, New York, graduating in 1988. He was selected by the Denver Nuggets in the second round of the 1992 NBA Draft. A 6'11" center from St...

, and Kenny Anderson

Kenny Anderson

Kenneth "Kenny" Anderson is a retired American basketball player. After a college career at Georgia Institute of Technology, he played point guard professionally from 1991 to 2006, mostly in the National Basketball Association....

.

Honors

He has been named CHSAA Coach of the Year 25 times in baseball, 22 times in basketball, won city championships in three different decades.

Curran has been elected into nine different Halls of Fame, including the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame.

On February 8, 2008, the school community honored his 50th year as head coach of baseball and basketball by unveiling a mural of the coach "though the years" after a game vs. St. Francis Prep.