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Ran cross-country and
track for coach Norm
Kitching at Mont
Pleasant HS
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Broke many records set
by former Mont Pleasant
runner and Athletic Hall
of Fame member, Steve
Szumachowski
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Won the individual
National Cross-Country
Championship in 1935 &
1936 (Nott Terrace HS
won the team
championship each year)
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Set a record in the 1935
National Championship
race, defeating the
defending champion (NT
runners finished second,
third and eighth)
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Set a new indoor record
of 4:31.6 at the Madison
Square Garden National
Interscholastic Mile
Championship, slashing
nearly five seconds off
the old national indoor
record (February, 1936)
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Ran on Mont Pleasant’s
Interscholastic Medley
Relay Championship team
at the Penn Relays,
running a 4:30 mile
anchor lap (April, 1936)
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Broke Glenn Cunningham’s
world record for the
scholastic mile when he
ran 4:24.4 at the En
Joie Health Invitation
Meet in Binghamton (May,
1936) - recognized as a
record by the National
Federation of State High
School Athletic
Associations
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Also ran a record
setting 4:22.3 mile at
the Brown Meet in May,
1936
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Came within a fraction
of a second of equaling
the world’s
interscholastic two mile
record of 9:53
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Unofficially broke the
two mile record in May,
1936, when he ran 9:48.4
(wind aided)
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Won almost every race he
entered while at Mont
Pleasant HS
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Member of the Mont
Pleasant Sports Hall of
Fame
