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RED BANK, NEW JERSEY, RESIDENT GEORGE
SHEEHAN INDUCTED INTO MANHATTAN COLLEGE’S ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME
RIVERDALE, N.Y. – George Sheehan ’67, a resident
of Red Bank, New Jersey, and Manhattan College alumnus, has been
inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame. The 26th annual
event, sponsored by the Manhattan College Alumni Society, was held
Dec. 4, 2004, in Smith Auditorium at the college campus.
Sheehan was an exceptional distance runner who set
numerous records with his running skill. He won IC4A honors, numerous
Metropolitan Championships and Penn Relays honors, all while setting
10 records during his career.
As a senior, Sheehan added personal training to
his track training and cut 30 seconds off his own collegiate record
in the five-mile run. At the Metropolitan Junior Championships in
1966, he took third place in the mile and then set an indoor Jasper
record in the three-mile run with a time of 14:37.2 – coming from
20 yards back in the final lap to win. His final record was set
at the Boston Knights of Columbus Tournament in 1967 when he finished
with a personal-best time of 8:57.8 in the two-mile run. He finished
his track career on a high note and ran in a New York Athletic Club
race in which he beat future marathon record-setter Eamon O’Reilly
in the two-mile run.
Sheehan spent the majority of his professional career
handling the business end of his father’s books about running. He
is currently working on a book of his dad’s best columns.
Manhattan College was founded in 1853 upon the Lasallian
heritage of excellence in teaching. Located in the Riverdale section
of the Bronx, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational
institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs
of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering
and science. For more information about the College, visit www.manhattan.edu.
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