Been a long time ...

Leftover memory from Sunday's race at Baird Park ... As I was working the turnaround area with Pat Rynkowski, a gentleman in the race huffed and puffed and announced that he was a proud graduate of Marist and the football team, from 1996. A long time ago, he said. He looked at me and commented that he remembered me as the track coach back then. "You been there a long time!" was his next comment. As I enter my 24th year as coach here, as the second longest tenured head coach in the building behind LVW in the pool, it was a funny way to be reminded that it's been a long time for me here.