Bob Hurley
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | St. Anthony |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
July 31, 1947 Jersey City, New Jersey, USA |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1972–present | St. Anthony High School |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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28 state championships (1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1983-1991, 1993, 1995-1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016) Won 9 consecutive state championships in a row, 1983-1991 4 national championships |
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| Awards | |
| USA Today National Coach of the Year, 1989, 1996, 2008 | |
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Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2010 (profile) |
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28 state championships (1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1983-1991, 1993, 1995-1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016)
Won 9 consecutive state championships in a row, 1983-1991
Robert Emmet "Bob" Hurley, Sr. (born July 31, 1947) is the basketball coach at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. Hurley has amassed 28 state championships and more than 1000 wins in 39 years as a coach. On February 2, 2011, Hurley became the tenth coach in high school history to win 1000 games. He is featured in the documentary: "The Street Stops Here." Five of his teams have gone undefeated. On April 5, 2010, he was announced as the only coach to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame that year and only the third high school coach in history to be so honored; he was formally inducted on August 13 of that year. Hurley is the father of Bobby Hurley, a former All-American point guard at Duke and the head basketball coach at Arizona State, and Dan Hurley, who was hired in February 2012 to coach the University of Rhode Island after two years of coaching at Wagner College and nine years coaching at Newark's Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, also one of the top high school programs in the nation.
Bob was born in the Greenville section of Jersey City and raised in St. Paul the Apostle parish, in an era when neighborhoods identified with their parishes. His father was a police officer. Hurley attended St. Peter's College, but walked off the varsity basketball team in his sophomore year after not being in the team's plans. He began volunteering as a coach for a Catholic Youth Organization grammar school team in his parish. He became a probation officer and held that position for 35 years, while also coaching. He retired in 2008.
Hurley began coaching at St. Anthony in 1972. St. Anthony, run by Felician Sisters, has one of New Jersey's smallest student bodies, most of who live below or near the poverty line. Hurley has never been a teacher at or a full-time employee of St. Anthony. For most of his career, the coach remained employed as a probation officer. Thereafter, he worked for the Jersey City Recreation Department, but has since retired. He has been instrumental in the restoration of the historic Jersey City Armory to a modern sports arena.
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