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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.

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