College with the Top 5 Fastest Marathon Alumni

Treacy's best was 2:09.15

http://www.algonet.se/~pela2/athletics/mmaraok.htm

University of Arizona (how I hate 'em) had:

Don Janicki 2:11

George Young

Ed Mendoza

Thom Hunt

Tom Ansberry

David Barney (took classes but didn't earn a degree).

I'm too lazy to google all their results, but it's a pretty good squad, probably second in the PAC-10 behind the Ducks.

Forgot Abdi.

Wondering where East Tennessee State U hangs with these guys:

I know they had a few good 26 milers, Cusack, O'Gara,

Did Dave Murphy go there?

Is Wesleyan the only college with two Boston Marathon winners?

JWAC wrote:

I recall Mick Byrne (PC 78) ran about 2:18, I think at the old Ocean State marathon...

I think it will be hard to beat those Ducks! They were awesome.

I'm pretty sure we are forgetting several other PC Grads who've run even faster than Mick and myself though. I ran a 2:16 for second in Toronto one year ('81 maybe?). A great example of how NOT to run a marathon! I led every step until 2K to go and still lost by over 1:20 to a local guy named Peter Quance. Without walking!

Dr. K wrote:

Is Wesleyan the only college with two Boston Marathon winners?

The University of Michigan: Meyer, Weidenbach, the last two Americans to win Da Big One.

Didn't Mike Franko (2:19:30) attend EMU? So..

Minty

Smith

Verran

Johns

Franko

That makes the PC list:

Providence:

Treacy 2:08

Smith 2:09

Carroll 2:10

Ronan: 2:11

Binns 2:12

Danny Dillon 2:16

R. Treacy 2:16

Fallon 2:17

Byrne 2:17

Riggs wrote:

Was that 2:11 Chapa's only post collegiate race? Anyone know why he didn't race after college?

It was a sad and mysterious thing with Rudy. His system was not quite as strong as Alberto's. But it eventually caught up with both of them.

Ok, so this might not meet the requirements for the post, but it's close. In the 1956 Olympic marathon in Melbourne all three US athletes were from Boston University.

From the BU Hall of Fame site:

In 1956 he (John J. Kelley) travelled to Melbourne, Australia to represent the United States in the Summer Olympic Games. More accurately, Kelley represented Boston University. The three-man American marathon contingent was composed of Terrier teammates Kelley, Dean Thackwary, and Nick Costes.

Rice had Jeff Wells, Sean Wade and Jon Warren, among others.

Here's one that may surprise you...might not be the best (some already listed in this thread are impressive) but is one of the top: SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY.

Consider:

Rod DeHaven

Dick Beardsley

Garry Bentley

Jay Dirksen

Gary Fischer

Mike Dunlap

...and there were several more

Treacy never ran 2:08.

ProJo wrote:

That makes the PC list:

Providence:

Treacy 2:08

Smith 2:09

Carroll 2:10

Ronan: 2:11

Binns 2:12

Danny Dillon 2:16

R. Treacy 2:16

Fallon 2:17

Byrne 2:17

Adjusted PC list:

Treacy 2:09:15

Smith 2:09

Carroll 2:10

Ronan: 2:11

Binns 2:12

Danny Dillon 2:16

R. Treacy 2:16

Fallon 2:17

Byrne 2:17

Cornell - Erhardt 2:38 at 50

Re: the SDSU post. That's Randy Fisher...several sub 2:20s.

Did Dirksen (coach at U of Nebraska)run the marathon? He represented the USA at 10,000m in the Pan Am Games when those were a big deal.

Beardsley: how long was he at SDSU? Did he get a degree?

Dehaven is current coach at SDSU.

University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP):

2:08.32 Gidamis Shahanga TAN Berlin 2nd 1990

2:09.12 Rodolfo Gomez MEX Tokyo 3rd 1983

2:09.52 Suleiman Nyambui TAN London 5th 1989

2:10.05 Gabriel Kamau KEN Chicago 4th 1984

2:10.11 Alfredo Shahanga TAN Berlin 1st 1989

2:10.30 Michael Musyoki KEN Chicago 4th 1983

2:11.19 Samwel Maritim KEN Berlin 6th 1996

2:11.43 Sam Ngatia KEN Houston 2nd 1985

2:11.47 Zakariah Barie TAN Rotterdam 2d 1984

2:13.07 James Munyala KEN Twin Cities 2nd 1985

Top 5 = 10:47.52 (2:09:34 average)

Top 10 = 21:46.18 (2:10:38 average)

University of Oregon:

2:08.52 Alberto Salazar USA Boston 1st 1982

2:09.38 Ken Martin USA New York 2nd 1989

2:11.13 Rudy Chapa USA New York 7th 1983

2:11.15 Art Boileau CAN Boston 2nd 1986

2:11.36 Kenny Moore USA Fukuoka 2nd 1970

Top 5 = 10:51.34 (2:10:19 average)

Providence College:

2:09.08 Geoff Smith GBR New York 2nd 1983

2:09:15 John Treacy IRL Boston 3rd 1988

2:10.54 Mark Carroll IRL New York 6th 2002

2:11.27 Andy Ronan IRL Boston 3rd 1991

2:13.32 Steve Binns GBR Chicago 10th 1988

Top 5 = 10:54.16 (2:10:51 average)

UTEP by a mile (almost) over Oregon! All three have impressive records though. This took a while to put together, but the topic seemed interesting.

Commendable work!

The University of Kenya at El Paso was stellar in it's day.