Ocean City's All-Time Girls Basketball Scorer Inducted Into S.J. Hall of Fame

Ocean City, NJ – The Ocean City High School girls basketball program’s all-time leading scorer now has a home in the the Albert Carino Basketball Club of South Jersey Hall of Fame.

Lisa Foglio, who had 1,970 points in her career and helped lead the team to a South Jersey title in 1979, was inducted on Sunday, Feb. 14.

Ocean City was in the South Jersey final every year from 1976 to 1979, and compiled a record of 97-9 over that span.

“Lisa was a confident competitor. To have accomplished all of those things… she’s clearly a leader,” said Pat Dougherty, Foglio’s coach at Ocean City and fellow Hall of Famer. “She could do it all. There wasn’t anything, skill-wise, that she could not do. She wanted to be the best and that’s all there was to it.”

After graduation in 1979, Foglio played for Mercer University in Macon, GA, scoring 316 points in 35 games. The 29-6 season set a school record, and the team won the Georgia Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (GAIAW) State Title and Region III tournament before losing the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women National Tournament (AIAW) by one point.

After a year at Mercer, Foglio transferred to Florida State University where she scored 1,227 points in 82 games during three seasons. She is 20th all-time in scoring at the University, and holds the third-best all-time free-throw shooting percentage; she made 78.8 percent of her 255 attempts. She is fourth in all-time goal percentage, making 54.4 percent of her 946 attempts.

All her scoring came before three-point attempts became part of the game, and before women began using a smaller-sized ball, as they do today.

At a special ceremony at the Crowne Plaza in Cherry Hill, Foglio was honored along with several other former players, including Timothy R. Bieg, Thomas L. Bowe, Clayton Brown, Donna Clark, Charlie Kates, Frank “Bud” McAlarnen, and Joe McAleer. Dougherty was on hand to congratulate Foglio, who attended the ceremony with her father, Joe.

“Lisa and I have a tremendous mutual respect for one another. We’re lucky to have that kind of family support at OCHS,” said Dougherty, who was with the district for 37 years and now is a resident of Marmora.

The Basketball Club of South Jersey was a long-time dream of founder Al Carino and organized in the fall of 1962, with the help of Courier-Post sportswriters Charlie Schuck and Walt Burrows.

During the first year, an All-South Jersey team and the Coach of the Year were honored at the first postseason banquet, the Suburban Newspapers presented the Suburban Cup, and State Champion Coaches were feted. The club did not honor women until the fall of 1974; the 1975 banquet cited the girls’ scoring champion in addition to the girls’ Coach of the Year and the girls’ Top Ten Award.

Carino, along with a committee, created the Hall of Fame, holding the first banquet and induction ceremony in 1981, inducting 13 nominees that year. Women were included the following year.

The Hall of Fame includes former outstanding coaches and players, as well as one inductee per year that is chosen for distinguished service to basketball in the area. There currently are about 355 members of the South Jersey Basketball Hall of Fame.

The attached images were provided by the Albert Carino South Jersey Hall of Fame: Lisa Foglio, left, and Pat Dougherty, celebrate Foglio’s induction into the Albert Carino Basketball Club of South Jersey Hall of Fame on Sunday, February 14.