Bill Welsh started the Augustinian Academy track program while still a student, before becoming a Met Junior Cross-Country and Junior National 15,000-meter champion, and the fifth American finisher in the 1955 Boston Marathon.
The longtime coach at New Dorp High School, Welsh tutored a four-minute miler, seven-foot high-jumper and record-setting shot-putters and pole-vaulters, and mentored generations of recreational runners.
Class of 1998