Local boy Gorman takes over at Albertus
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Albertus Magnus replaced one former pro coach with another.
Pat Gorman, a 1995 Albertus graduate, is taking over the helm this season from Mike Paravati. Paravati took a teaching job at Burke Catholic to be closer to his home in Orange County. Apparently he won’t coach up there, just teach. In the late 1990s Paravati was a strength and conditioning coach in the White Sox’ system.
Gorman is well known in Rockland pitching circles. He’s the co-owner of K-Zone, a pitcher training facility in Nanuet. (Suffern pitching coach Brian Aviles is the other co-owner.) Gorman spent seven years in the Mets’ and Orioles’ minor-league systems. You may remember his name from the Mike Bordick trade the Mets made, where he and Melvin Mora, who became an all-star, were shipped out of town for Bordick, who did diddley-squat in a Met uniform. Elbow injuries eventually derailed his career. In 2005 he coached the Rockland Brewers to the NABF World Series.
He’s got his work cut out for him. Albertus hasn’t been good in a long while. In fact it’s usually at the bottom of the Rockland heap. If he can do for the Falcon staff what his business partner Aviles has done for the Suffern staff, people will take notice.
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Josh Thomson has done some of everything since joining The Journal News in
March 2003. He began working for the Gannett weeklies during the winter of
2002 as a freelance writer. He joined the daily staff soon after and has
since covered various high school and pro sports. Away from sportswriting,
Josh lives in Westchester and spends his free time either with his
fiancee, Sarah, or expertly managing his various championship-winning
fantasy sports teams. He's visited 21 major-league baseball stadiums and
insists that Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the best by far. Josh
graduated from Carmel High School in 1998, then went to Boston University,
where, in 2002, he received a degree in communications with a minor in
history. 
Jake Thomases has covered baseball, hockey, girls basketball, and girls soccer for the Journal News since arriving in 2003. He previously interned at The Poughkeepsie Journal while attending Vassar College. He is socking money away under his mattress to buy the Knicks, at which time he will trade Jerome James to Cleveland for a ham sandwich.
