Charlie Marsala, who stated running track at New Dorp High School to get in shape for baseball, became Staten Island’s first – and only – four-minute miler when he ran 3:58.7 indoors as a collegian in 1991.
Marsala was a high school state champion and a two-time All-American at Indiana, where he won six Big Ten championships. He ran sub-four minutes 15 times, twice running the metric equivalent of a 3:54 mile.
Class of 2002