Dan Callandrillo

Dan Callandrillo is a former professional basketball player who played for the Rochester Zeniths in the American Continental Basketball Association in 1983 and the Solent Stars of the British Basketball League in 1985. He also played for the Bracknell Pirates in the British Basketball League. He was drafted by the Houston Rockets in the 1982 NBA Draft, but never played for the team.

Raised in North Bergen, New Jersey, Callandrillo played basketball at North Bergen High School.[1]

Callandrillo played for Seton Hall University from 1978 to 1982, where he was Third Team All-American and a Big East Player of the Year.[2]

References

  1. Roberts, Jeff. "Where are they now? Seton Hall's Dan Calandrillo", The Record (Bergen County), March 30, 2010. Accessed August 12, 2016. "Like the story of how he made it out of North Bergen, the youngest of 13 kids born to deaf parents, all crammed into a three-bedroom, fourth-floor walk-up.... He would become an All-State player at North Bergen, winning a State title in 1977 and beating Kelly Tripucka-led Bloomfield in a nail-biter semifinal."
  2. Delozier, Alan. Seton Hall Pirates: A Basketball History Arcadia Publishing, 2002.


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