All-Time Massachusetts runnners

Yes, I was aware of that on the B.C. web site. That's why I referred to it as "resume inflation." Why would RT say that stuff? He has an impressive enough running resume as it is.

few others of note:

Charlie Jenkins 56 Olympic gold medalist at 400

John Thomas 60 Olympic bronze, 64 silver (in h.j.)

Leon Coleman 68 Olympics, 4th. place in high hurdles

Harold Connolly 56 gold medalist, hammer

Janet Moreau, 3rd. leg on 1952 Olympic gold medal 4x100

Mike Quinn Dedham 23:13 @ the old Franklin Park course

Quinn was a four-year member of the UMass cross country and track and field teams from 1975-1979.

He earned All-America honors in cross country in both 1976 and 1977, while qualifying for the NCAA Championship five times in his career (three times in cross country and twice for the 5,000 meters in outdoor track).

A six-time All-Yankee Conference selection, Quinn captured individual cross country titles at the league championship meets in 1976, 1977 and 1978, while leading UMass to team titles every season. He also captured the Yankee Conference title in the indoor mile run in 1979, and was third in the indoor two mile (1976) and third in the outdoor three mile (1976).

A four-time All-New England selection, Quinn was the New England outdoor 5,000-meter run champion in 1979 and finished second at the 1976 New England cross country meet. A six-time All-IC4A performer, his best finish was third in the 5,000 at the 1979 IC4A outdoor meet. Quinn captained the UMass cross country team as a junior and senior, and led the program to NCAA appearances as a team both years.

Quinn still has times which rank among UMass' all-time top performances in the outdoor mile run (second), the 5,000 meters (second) and three mile (third), while owning the school's second-best indoor mile time and third best 3,000 meter mark. He also anchored distance medley relay teams that own the fourth and fifth-fastest times in school history.

Following his time at UMass, Quinn went on to compete in numerous international competitions around the world. He recorded first-place finishes in both the 1984 Hong Kong International and Hong Kong national cross country championships, and the 1985 Hong Kong national cross country championship. He is currently employed by Nike in Beaverton, Ore., where he serves as the company's director of product creations for the women's footwear division.

OK.

Some NCAA champions from Massachusetts:

Lesley Lehane, from Peabody - xc

Shalane Flannigan, from Marblehead - xc

Darlene Beckford, from Cambridge - mile

Jennifer Lanctot, from Millvile - mile

Keith Francis, from New Bedford - 1000 yds. indoors

Clinton Davis, from Dorchester - 400 meters, 400 IH too?

Harold Connolly, from ? (BC guy) - hammer

John Thomas, from Cambridge - high jump

Did Dulong ever win an NCAA title? I don't think that he did - although that guy could rock!

Siad Ahmed( east boston, or roxbury latin) should most definitely be on the list. And joel legares teamate logan jones ( weston,ma) might be list worthy.

UMass X-C All- America Bill Gillin - Holliston

5th in '75 NCAA steeple, no AA cuz then it was ONLY Top 3

UMass John McGrail X-C All-America '76 Stoughton 28:43 10k

How about Art Smith from Xaverian

Art made the finals of NCAA 3k indoors when he ran for BU for his fifth year. He didn't place, but ran around 8:03. The next year, after finishing school, he ran 13:54 or so, but I don't believe he improved on that. He was a tough competitor, but had asthma problems.

Another excellent runner was a BC High kid, last name Greene, who went to Navy. He ran just under 60 for 500 meters and was near top of NCAA level. The 400 was too short for him, the 800 too long, but the 500 - as Goldielocks used to put it - was just right.

New Englander wrote:

UMass X-C All- America Bill Gillin - Holliston

5th in '75 NCAA steeple, no AA cuz then it was ONLY Top 3

Top 8 made AA at Provo.

Gillan was 5th in the 1974 steeple in Austin BTW.

Franklyn Sanchez is pretty impressive with a US Jr XC title and 13:38. I saw a video of the indoor state meet (1997) 2 mile where he walked down Andy Powell with one of the more impressive kicks ive ever seen. He looked like he was well out of it but came from no where to get the win. I think it was at Reggie Lewis and the place was going crazy. Any one witness this?

More Mike Mahon (sorry, not trying to hijack the thread!):

One yr at his awards banquet he wore a black stocking cap and a suit the whole night. For his final award he gleefully pulled of his cap to reveal a completely shaved head and presented the "Charles Manson award" to someone. The audience was silent for a few long seconds but mike was grinning ear to ear. Eventually came one of those awkward claps where only 5 people clap.

Honorable mention: the "caddy shack the movie award"

The best thing about mike is he kept so much info on MA XC (he walked around with HUGE binders stuffed with results and notes) that he would be allllll over this thread.

is Mahon still active ?

CHARLEY Jenkins , Rindge Tech 400 og champ

Andy Downin .. can't believe this thread went this far without mention of him.

andy downin is from MA? I couldve sworn that Matt is from NH.

Blake Russell lived and trained in MA before relocating to California. She's worth a vote.

Both matt and andy are from duxbury, ma I believe.

My team went to Camp Foss one year and shared a cabin with Mike Mahon. He used to listen to weather reports as he went to sleep. He would recite them as he heard them. I can still hear "your exended local forecast" to this day.

I'd have to add Jack Dwyer and Jesse Cody to the list for HS.

If half-milers count, Billy Martin was a great one. Had a great career at Iona and beyond as well as at Catholic Memorial in Roxbury. In many ways he is responsible for the success Iona has enjoyed in the past 10-20 years. He was the first marquee athlete to go there.