Rochester Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

Stanley Albert: A terrific all-around athlete, an outstanding referee and a wonderful promoter of youth sports.

Stan grew up in Denver, Colorado. He attended West High School and earned 8 varsity letters while playing football, basketball and baseball.

He continued his stellar sports career at Colorado State University, graduating with a degree in Physical Education and Recreation. At CSU, he was a 3 year varsity basketball player and a two-time All-Western Conference player. Stan was selected to play in the Shrine East-West game in 1958. He set school records in scoring and free throw percentage (which still stands after more than 50 years!). Stan had the prestigious honor of being elected to the Colorado State University Sports Hall of Fame.

Stan was a truly remarkable softball, fast-pitch, pitcher. In his career he pitched a plethora of no-hitters, using both a rise-ball and a drop. He pitched for Pay Pac in Seattle Washington. In World Champion Softball competition, he had one win and one loss. Just a few years ago, in 2005. Stan had a notion to pitch in the World Maccabiah Games and limbered up at the Rochester JCC. Well into his sixties, Stan still displayed a devastating rise-ball and a darting fastball, not unlike Satchel Paige’s “Long Tom.” The ball just kept moving through the strike zone!

Stan was the Pitching Coach for St. John Fischer for two seasons.

Stan moved to Rochester in 1971. He was hired by the Jewish Community Center to upgrade and develop physical education programs for the “new” site on Edgewood avenue, that opened in 1972. What a break Rochester received with Stan’s presence in the Phys. Ed. Dept., teaching youngster and adult the sports skills and the terrific lesson on competition and fair play. In 1974, Stan connected the JCC basketball program to the area CYO leagues, a large upgrade and change that still stands today. Stan retired after 26 yearsof dedicated service, starting for a short time on Andrews Street.

Stan was a natural to sit on the US Committee Sports for Israel for many years, after he had been elected to the Rochester Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, in 1982.

During his tenure in Rochester, Stan became an outstanding Section 5 football official and basketball referee at the high school level. His basketball officiating also extended into the college level, combing a 23 year span.

After retiring from the JCC, Stan took his athletic abilities and leadership skills and he served area children once again. He became the Director of Quad A for Kids, a non for profit organization that raises money to support sports programs for inner-city youth.

Stan still resides in Rochester.