College of Staten Island Athletics

It is hard to know where to start when looking back on the career of April Owen.  A collegiate transfer student who had no intention of playing sports at CSI, Owen went on to become a year-round athlete and a CUNYAC All-Star in three separate sports, and the centerpiece on the basketball hardwood, where the foundation of her Hall of Fame career is based.
 
A former athlete at Mercy College, Owen came to CSI mid-year in the spring on 1991, and after a little arm-twisting, she attended a CSI women’s basketball practice. She was instantly taken in and from there, she hardly ever left the gym.  She was an instantaneous star.  Playing in only 12 games in 1991, she scored 292 points, including a school-record 44 in one game, shot 60% from the field and 79% from the line, averaging 24.3 points per contest en route to delivering CSI a CUNYAC Championship, the first in eight years, and only the second in school history.
 
In 1991-92, her first full year at the College, Owen took up women’s volleyball as a gateway to basketball season, and shined there too, becoming a CSI leader at the top of the net in categories like kills, attacks, and blocked shots.  That bled into basketball season, when Owen amassed a sensational campaign.  Starting all 25 games in 1991-92, Owen averaged 22.8 points per game and 571 points in total, along with 380 rebounds (15.2 per game) at the time both CSI records.  She also set a school-record, since broken, with 28 rebounds in a single game against John Jay College. CSI would win a program-record 17 games and Owen ran away with CUNYAC Player of the Year honors.
 
With only a year of basketball eligibility remaining, Owen put up another great senior season despite battling illness that sidelined her for a good stretch.  She averaged 19.1 points and 10.9 rebounds per contest in 1992-93, and followed up a CUNYAC All-Star season in volleyball with another All-Star citation in basketball.  
 
By the close of her basketball career, Owen was the third leading scorer in school history with 1,260 points after her abridged career and her 601 rebounds still place her in the Top 10 all-time.  She is also the last female player to win the Melvin Baumel Memorial Basketball Award given by CSI at graduation.
 
With eligibility exhausted for basketball, Owen wasn’t nearly done.  She took up softball in 1993, and batted .333 for the Dolphins and finished second on the team that season with 21 RBI.  With an extra year to finish her studies, Owen completed a third year with Women’s Volleyball in 1993, and then batted .368 on the softball squad with 31 RBI in 1994, officially closing out her highly-decorated and illustrious career.