Accomplishments
- Richland High graduate participated in 10 Boston Marathons.
- Three-time winner of the Johnstown Marathon when that event attracted some of the nation’s top distance runners.
- Finished 10th in a field of 10,000 entries in the 1982 Great Race in Pittsburgh.
- Ran the 1983 Boston Marathon in 2:16.42 and that time qualified him for a U.S. Olympic Team trial in Buffalo.
- Won the first Johnstown Marathon in 1975, and won again in 1980, 1985.
- Set Johnstown Marathon record time of 2:22.54 in 1985.
- Ran his first Boston Marathon in 1968.
- Won the Pittsburgh Hibernian Marathon and Golden Triangle 13-mile run, both in 1975.
- Ran in six New York Marathons.
- Won the Maryland Marathon in Baltimore in 1976.
- Was part of three-man team to win the National AAU 50-mile race in New York in 1976.
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