Richard Santos (1984)

In CCRI’s athletic program, no one had dominated basketball like Richard Santos did.  He held the former records for most points in one game with 44 points, in a single season with 731 points and has a career total of 1338 points.  He was CCRI’s first All - American in 1973 and is the only player to win Rhode Island Outstanding Junior College Player Award in consecutive years.  Santos continued to play basketball at Providence College and became captain for the Friars in his senior year.  After receiving his bachelor’s degree of science from Providence College, he started coaching the women’s basketball team at CCRI in 1978 and ended in 1984 and in that time, he led them to 2 New England tournaments.  He is also a part of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Rhode Island Interscholastic League of Basketball Legends.