John Donodeo was born and raised in Astoria, Queens before he attended Manhattan College and Penn State and then made his way back to New York, where he left a major footprint as the head track and field and cross country coach at Regis High School – a private all-boys Jesuit High School in Manhattan.

It’s a tuition free school that attracts some of the smartest kids in the city. He was there for more than 30 years. As a result, he has so many awesome stories and you really feel how nice and selfless of a person he was in more than 100 seasons of coaching.

We dive into what it’s like to make an impact on the lives of so many people, what makes a good coach, does getting older necessarily mean getting slower and what it’s like going into retirement after being part of something special for so long.

Email John: john.f.donodeo[@]gmail.com

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