The last Warren High School boys basketball team and the first boys basketball team to represent Mt. Hope High School both won championships.  Sal Corona starred on the Warren High Class C Tournament Champions of 1993 that easily defeated Bristol in the playoff finals.  And he was the captain of and playoff Most Valuable Player on the 1994 Mt. Hope five that captured both the Class C-Two Co-Championship and the Class C Playoff title.

During the summer of 1994 Sal played on the three-on-three basketball team that won both the seventeen-eighteen-year-old Rhode Island crown and the eighteen-nineteen-year-old National Championship.  In the latter competition, the four team members posted wins of 20-18, 20-17, 20-16, 20-8, and 20-17, the last over a group from South Dakota.

While in junior high school, Sal won the School Indoor Soccer League Division Three scoring title with fourteen goals.  Two years later he played on the Bi-State Realty team that notched the Rhode Island Indoor Soccer League Class B Under- Sixteen Championship.

As a Warren High School junior, he was named a Division Two South first team soccer player while captaining his team. 

The following year he captained the 1993 Mt. Hope squad that barely qualified for the playoffs with a tiebreaker win over Toll Gate.  In the playoffs they first defeated South Kingstown and then scored overtime victories over West Warwick and Portsmouth to capture the State Championship.  In recognition of his efforts during the regular season and the playoffs, Sal was named both All Tournament and first team All State; he was the first Mt. Hope High School athlete to achieve this latter honor.

Among his road racing accomplishments were (1) Downtown 5K fifteen and under champion, (2) the first Warren finisher in the Warren Substance Abuse race three years in succession, and (3) Ro-Jack’s Attleboro run eighteen and under champion – twice.

Sal played Division Two soccer during his four years at Stonehill College.

Pictures from Hall of Fame archives