A heartfelt THANK YOU goes out to the Rome community for their continuing support with our Annual Brooks BBQ Fundraiser! This year, the BBQ was held on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at the Rome Alliance Church on Turin Road.

This year's annual golf scramble was held on August 2, 2026, at Rome Country Club once again. As in the past, it was a successful endeavor once again! The Golf Tournament is our biggest fundraiser for the Rome Sports Hall of Fame. Many thanks to those of you who golfed or sponsored a hole this year!! Our winners were- American Division-Team Meiss Doug Meiss, Tim Lovett, Ed Marsh, Sr., Ed Marsh, Jr. National Division - Team Van Meter Bob VanMeter, Leo Cappocia, Paul Boulanger,

We look forward to hosting another year of the Cycle the Erie Canal Event as the RSHOF will provide a comfort station and some refreshments for the cyclists on their way to Fort Stanwix for the night. This year's event will be on July 16, 2026. We have had many of the 500+ bicyclists stop at the Hall of Fame during their ride that day. Many of them go inside to look at our artifacts and learn about some of our Roman history. It is always a lot of fun getting to meet new folks

The RSHOF hosted a combined NGWSD celebration with a field hockey clinic for Grades K-6 on Saturday, August 15, 2026, at the RFA Stadium Support Field. Approximately 68 young girls had an opportunity to learn about the sport of field hockey, as the day was a celebration of National Girls & Women in Sport. The celebration featured Syracuse University's Head Field Hockey Coach Lynn Farquhar, who began at SU in 2022 after serving as an Assistant Coach to Ange Bradley who retired

The deadline to receive applications for potential inductee nominations for this year's consideration, was March 1, 2026. Any new applications or updates on current applications, may continue to be e-mailed or mailed at any time throughout the year. Please send directly to the Rome City Recreation Department for future consideration. THANK YOU!

The Rome Sports Hall of Fame 48th Annual Induction Weekend was held on Sunday, July 26th, 2026 at Beeches Manor Nascentia. We wish to congratulate all of our new Inductees, Service Award winners, and Ellie Bruce Team of Excellence! This year's recipients (2026) were the following: 2026 Inductees- Tim Sestito - Kara Wojdyla Pritchard - Mike Moshier - Tom Mazuzan (daughter Erin Bowen) - Paul Pillmore Our Service Award winners- Jan Norelli and John Clifford Team of Excellence sp

● 5 iPad stands ● Moveable Display Wall ● New Display Cabinets ● Speaker system for the display cabinets ● Laminator for newspaper articles and photos ● Fire- proof file cabinets ● Rome Catholic High School Sports Memorabilia ● We continue to actively seek a Grant writer who can volunteer their time to search for eligible grants for our non-profit organization. This is a critical piece to allow the RSHOF to continue to provide everything we do for the sports heritage

Visitors to the Rome Sports Hall of Fame may notice some of the older inductee plaques have faded over the years, in particular, the old images adhered to the plaques. There is now a new process being used on our plaques that not only resists fading, but also allows us to use color photographs. We have updated all the plaques to this new process going back to 2014. We are inviting inductees, or their family members, who wish to upgrade a plaque to the new technique to contact

An awards presentation for the 2026 High School Personalities was held on Thursday, July 23, 2026, at 6:30pm in the auditorium at Rome Free Academy. Athletes were presented awards along with a slide show highlighting each individual and team, including all of their accolades for outstanding performances this past school year. A total of 31 student-athlete individual awards were given out, and 2 outstanding teams were recognized. These are the highlights of the evening. Male a

The Rome Sports Hall of Fame held their Summer Celebration of Softball and Baseball Champions Award’s Ceremony on Thursday, August 13, 2026. The following teams were recognized. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!!! 10U Collins Farm & Creamery 12U Jones Nursery Cal Ripkin Major Division League Champions Cal Ripkin Minor League Champions Town of Lee Major Division Champions

"The only municipal Sports Hall of Fame with its own museum in New York State." The Rome Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is a non-profit...