List Sports you participated in or coached:

Basketball & Baseball – St. Anthony’s School & St. Anthony’s High School; Fast Pitch Softball; Bristol Industrial League; Referee in Bristol CYO Basketball League; Basketball-US Army; Slow Pitch Softball-Sportsmans Rest.; Basketball – UCONN, Waterbury Branch.

List Championship Teams you were a member of or coached at any level:

1953 – New England Catholic HS Tournament – Basketball; Years unknown – City Softball Champions.

List All-League, all –conference, all-state teams you were a member of or coached:

All-Star team – New England Catholic HS Basketball Tournament – 1953 and 1954.

List statistics regarding your personal, city, state, league record as a player or coach:

Layer Coach US Army Basketball team-Korea and Japan 1957-1958 (29-3 record).

Tell Us More:

Tony played baseball and basketball at St. Anthony’s School and St. Anthony’s High School.  In 1953, St. Anthony’s High School won the New England Catholic High Basketball championship and Tony was selected on the All-Star team for that tournament.  He was also selected to the All-Star team in 1954 at the same tournament. His scoring average was 14.5 points per game throughout his 4 year high school career.

After high school Tony played fast pitch softball with the Wallace Barnes team in the Bristol league prior to his enlistment in the US Army in 1956.

During his Army days, he played and coached the 8^th Cavalry, 1^st Cavalry Division basketball team in Korea and Japan. Team record was 29-3. He was the second scoring leader in the league with a scoring average of 23 points per game and was written up in the “Stars and Stripes Newspaper” for his accomplishments.

Upon return to the United States, Tony was transferred to the Connecticut Army National Guard and also attended the University of Connecticut, Waterbury Branch where he was a starter on the basketball and averaged 18.5 points per game. He also played for many military basketball teams in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, Tony scored 50 points or getter in 5 games. He also started playing Slo-Pitch softball with a league in Plainville and then in Bristol where he was the shortstop for the sportsman’s Café. This team won several city titles and participated in many regional tournaments. His playing days ended in 1976 after an arm injury.

He was an assistant coach in McCabe Waters Little League farm Team.

Tony Savino joined the Bristol Tramps Sports Reunion Committee in 1996 and serves as the Executive Director.