HAVERFORD, Pa. – Haverford College men's basketball Alumni Michael Fratangelo '07 and Gregory Rosnick '09 have been selected as the 2015 recipient of the Larry Forman '60 Award. The Forman Award is selected by the Alumni Association Awards Committee. The award honors former student-athletes whose athletic career in college and subsequent devotion to serving society was reminiscent of Forman.
While attending Haverford, Michael Fratangelo '07 played basketball for Coach Michael Mucci and devised his own major in race and cultural studies. As undergraduates, he and his co-award winner Greg Rosnick '09 (see below) founded the sports-based youth camp program DiverseCITY Hoops. Their mission was to allow attendees to learn from talented current and former college athletes and to use sports as a vehicle for real change and to bridge gaps created by socioeconomic differences. That first summer the camp hosted 13 campers from the Philadelphia area.
Upon graduation, Mike played professional basketball in Europe and the Middle East. He earned a master's degree from Bryn Mawr College and now serves as DiverseCITY's executive director, spearheading its programs in cities across the country. Mike's goal is for campers to gain not only improved athletic skills but also as an improved outlook on their world and the world around them. He also serves as a consultant for social entrepreneurs through his LLC, Sunrise Capital.
Gregory Rosnick '09 was the starting point guard for the final three years at Haverford and ranks third all-time in program history in steals and assists. During his sophomore year, Greg and his teammate Mike Fratangelo '07 devised and founded DiverseCity (see description above). Greg obtained a master's of arts in teaching from Smith College, where he was a teaching fellow at the Smith College Campus School and a fellow at Project Coach, where he would later serve as assistant director. Greg was also a teaching fellow at the prestigious Athens College, a co-educational preparatory school in Greece.
Upon returning to the U.S. in 2012, Greg was an assistant coach at Belchertown High School and under Haverford's Mike Mucci—all the while running the DiverseCITY Hoops program, which he has done very summer since 2007. After having also worked for the College's offices of Admission, Counseling and Psychology Services, and Health Services, he joined the coaching staff of Colby College in Waterville, Me.
In recognition of their service to society Fratangelo and Rosnick will be honored at a public ceremony during Alumni Weekend on May 30 at 10 a.m. in Roberts Hall.