Track & Field
Monsignor Farrell 1973 Two-Mile Relay
The Monsignor Farrell relay team of John Daly, Ken Panebianco, Joe Reina and Chris Ryan won the 1973 Championship of America two-mile relay at the Penn Relays in Philadelpia before a crowd of 40,000 spectators. Coach George Kochman’s foursome already owned the Staten Island record, before winning Staten Island’s first and only team title at America’s most prestigious high school meet.(Read more...)
John Tobin
John Tobin built or rebuilt championship track programs at three Staten Island high schools, and was instrumental in establishing the Empire State Games and Big Apple Games. Tobin’s St. Peter’s teams won Archdiocesan titles in track and cross country, and were unbeaten on Staten Island for five straight years. His teams won a cross-country title at Port Richmond and an outdoor championship – with the highest point total on record –at Tottenville.(Read more...)
Bill Welsh
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.(Read more...)
Pete Whitehouse
Pete Whitehouse, a high-jumper at St. Peter’s High School and All-American hurdler at Notre Dame, finished second at the 1964 NCAA championships, and won at the hurdles in the 1964 New York AC Games against some of the world’s best. As the coach at Tottenville High School, Whitehouse’s girls’ teams won 22 straight Staten Island public school cross-country championships and more city titles than any other school, raising the bar for every program in the (Read more...)