Hall of Fame Choose a Hall Of Fame Member: Ahart, Fred Amen, Jr, Jim Andrew, Mike Bader, Richard Barrows, Robert Biggio, Craig Black, Ronald Bondi, Thomas Brown, Jim Brummer, Jacqueline Capellan, Persio Card, Hermon Case, Joan Castellano, Richard Cecere, Dominic Cerone, Dick Chapman, Diane Ciampi, Sal Cipp, Joseph Clark, Gary Cole, Nancy Cross, Marilyn Cuozzo, Joseph Danowski, Ed Davis, Ernie DeCillis, Nick DeCristoforo, Maria Doyle, Alton Engle, Charles Esiason, Boomer Famiglietti, Anthony Fiedler, Jay Flatley, Tom Foley, John Francescone, Drake Fries, Dennis Fuchs, Tracey Funk, Karen Gallagher, Catherine Gansle, Marbry Garrow, Robert Giani, Louis Gibson, Paul Gillespie, Paul Giorgis, Brian Goetz, Edward Grady, Joe Grant, Debbie Greene, Roberta Hall, Thomas Halloran, John Harrica, Paul Hart, Mike Hoover, James Huddle, Molly Jessup, Arthur Johnson, John Johnston, Daryl Jones, John Jones, Paula Kasner, Michael Kelly, David Kersch, Robert Kupchak, Mitchell Kus, Sally Lamay, Bernard Leibinger, Edward Lopez, Karen Luciano, Anthony Maher, Gina Maida, Leonard Mallanda, Alan Mann Vittengl, Heidi Marotta, Frank Martens, David Martincich, Mira Martone, Marcus Masters, Gene McGowan, Jim McTaggart, Thomas Messere, Michael Mitchell, James Montalto, Gary Montalto, Ronald Moore, Stanley Moran, William Moss, Carol Mott, Lloyd Mularz, Thad Mulvaney, Lawrence Nelson, Ben Normandin, Carl O'Brien, Bernie O'Connor, Karen Oley, Peter Onken, Mary Osborne, James Paulus, Greg Pepper, Dottie Pettinelli, Louis Pinkerton, James Pizzarelli, Patrick Ransom, Gregory Riggs, Stanley Roth, Hank Sabella, Anthony Salerno, Judith Sarsen, Sharon Schoff-Kovatch, Caryn Schroeder-Watt, Stacey Scott, Sandra Sennett, Otis Slack, Martha Snyder, Donald Southworth, Bob Stanilka, Cathy Strube, Ken Stulmaker, Robert Tehonica, John Terc, Marie Tolle, James Tomalty, Melvin Trautmann, John Trembley, John Troy, Eileen Van Erk, Nina Vogts, Howard Walczak, Jerome Wambach, Abby Ward, Mark Weatherup, Paul West, Melissa Wicks, Susan Wolfe, Jim Woods, Theodore Yastrzemski, Carl Paul Gillespie Class 2023 Induction 2023 Sport(s) Coach, Wrestling Paul Gillespie is one of the winningest high school wrestling coaches in the history of New York State. He is one of only a few high school coaches to eclipse the 500-career win total with a 540-127-2 career overall record. He has seen dozens of his athletes go on to compete at the next level. He began his career in 1975 as a physical education teacher and multi-sport coach at Long Beach High School (Section VIII). He took the wrestling program, considered to be a “doormat” for many years, to an instant winner amassing a 252-32-2 record, winning 17 conference and Nassau County Championships, and seeing seven of his wrestlers capture NYSPHSAA Individual State Championships. From 1978-97 he stayed at Long Beach and was known to comb the halls of the middle school and high school annually recruiting kids he felt needed guidance and self-confidence not only as the wrestling coach, but as a mentor as well. Over the years, Paul also coached football, golf, boys and girls soccer, track and field, boys lacrosse and boys swimming. Gillespie took a few years off to enjoy his son’s high school wrestling career then returned to coaching at Oceanside High School (2001-04) where he founded the freestyle program and developed a youth program. Following his retirement in 2006 as a teacher at Long Beach, Paul went to Wantagh High School to become an assistant coach for four years before taking over the program in 2008. He racked up a 288-95 record while coaching two NYSPHSAA Dual Meet Champions and five wrestlers who won Nassau County Championships. He’s been honored a myriad of times for his success including National High School Wrestling National Scholastic Coach of the Year in 2013, Long Island Coach of the Year in 2011-12 and 2012-13, and was Nassau County Coach of the Year nine times. Additionally, Gillespie has been inducted into the New York State Wrestling Hall of Fame, the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Nassau County Hall of Fame. A standout athlete and 1969 graduate of Baldwin High School (Section VIII), Paul earned a bachelors from West Chester College.