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On August 5, Ramapo athletic director Eugene Marshall announced the
hiring of
John Nepolitan to the position of
head women’s and men’s cross country and track and field coach.
A 1984 graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas with a degree in business
administration, Nepolitan brings a wealth of running and coaching
experience to the school having begun his coaching career at
Albertus
Magnus
High School
in 1984.
From 1988-1996, Nepolitan
worked for UCS, the world leader in manufacturing track and field
equipment. The company was the official supplier of track
and field equipment for the 1984, 1988, and 2000 Olympic Games. In 1996,
he left UCS to become a teacher of Social Studies, and head cross country
and track and field coach at Don Bosco Prep in
Ramsey,
NJ.
At DBP, he led his team to ten NNJIL Championships and six Bergen County
Titles. The team was named Bergen County Team of the Year six times, while
Nepolitan was named Bergen County Cross Country Coach of the Year and
All-Area Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2001. He was a
three-time All-Suburban Newspapers Cross Country Coach of
the Year from 1999-2001.
Nepolitan has attended the last two World Cross Country Championships in
Dublin
(2001) and Lasuanne, Swiss (2002), where he
was a photographer for the internet web site dyestat.com and the running
magazine, “The Harrier”. In addition, he recently published a book by
Shooting Star Media, (Madison WI), titled Training Profiles-HS Boys
Distance and is currently working on the second edition, Training
Profiles-HS Girls Distance.
Nepolitan is a resident
of
Pearl River,
NY.
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