History

1997 - 1998
Head Boys & Girls Cross Country Coach -- Sacred Heart HS

1998 - 1999
Volunteer Boys Cross Country Coach -- Cherokee High School

1999 - 2004
Head Girls Cross Country Coach -- Cherokee High School

2005 - 2008
Head Girls Cross Country Coach - Lincoln Sudbury High School

2008 - Current
Assistant Men's and Women's Cross Country Coach - Monmouth University

ALL TIME TOP 10 HIGH SCHOOL HARRIERS

#3 Lisa
Burkholder

#4 Malia
Lyles

CROSS COUNTRY
HISTORY OF INDIVIDUAL and TEAM
ACCOMPLISHMENTS (High School)

Nike Team Nationals Qualifiers
2007 - Lincoln Sudbury - Won NTN NE Region
@ Portland Meadows
Top 7
Andrea Keklak - Dana Jamieson - Ellie Hylton - Claire Arthure
Holly Clarke - Emily Mepham - Rachael Potter

NTN NorthEast Regional Team Champions
2007 - Lincoln Sudbury
@ Bowdoin Park
Top 7
Andrea Keklak - Dana Jamieson - Ellie Hylton - Claire Arthure
Holly Clarke - Emily Mepham - Rachael Potter

NJ Meet Of Champions & Massachuttes All State Team Champions
2007 - Lincoln Sudbury
@ Gardner Golf Course (2.8 miles)
Top 7
Andrea Keklak - Dana Jamieson - Ellie Hylton - Claire Arthure
Holly Clarke - Emily Mepham - Rachael Potter

NJ Meet Of Champions & Massachuttes All State Team Placers
2006 - Lincoln Sudbury - Mass All State - 2nd Place

NJ Meet Of Champions & Massachuttes All State Individual Champions

NJ Meet Of Champions & Massachuttes All State Individual Medalists
2002 - Malia Lyles - New Jersey Meet Of Champions - 13th Place
2003 - Lisa Burkholder - New Jersey Meet Of Champions - 8th Place
2004 - Lisa Burkholder - New Jersey Meet Of Champions - 9th Place
2006 - Dana Jamieson - Mass All State - 3rd Place
2006 - Emily Mepham - Mass All State - 15th Place
2007 - Andrea Keklak - Mass All State - 7th Place
2007 - Dana Jamieson - Mass All State - 11th Place
2007 - Claire Arthur - Mass All State - 12th Place

New Jersey Meet of Champions & Massachuttes All State Individual Finalists
1997 -- Tim Callinan -- SR -- Finished 37th -- 16:59
1997 -- Adrienne Alexander -- SR -- Finished 18th -- 20:01.10
1999 -- Melissa Razo -- SR -- Finished 39th -- 20:47
2001 -- Malia Lyles -- JR -- Finished 70th -- 20:39
2002 -- Malia Lyles -- SR -- Finished 13th -- 19:48
2003 -- Lisa Burkholder -- Soph -- Finished 8th -- 19:23

New Jersey Group IV State Champions
1998 -- Cherokee High School (Boys Assistant)

New Jersey State Group IV Team Championship Finalists
Cherokee High School -- 1997 -- 1999 -- 2000 -- 2001 -- 2002 -- 2003 - 2004

New Jersey Groups Individual Champions (Male)-- Holmdel Park
Tim Callinan -- Sacred Heart --Parochial "B" -- 16:58

New Jersey Groups Individual Champions (Female)-- Holmdel Park
Adrienne Alexander -- Sacred Heart --Parochial "B" -- 20:19.90

New Jersey Group IV State Champions
1998 -- Cherokee High School (Boys Assistant)

South Jersey Group IV State Sectional & Eastern Massachusetts Class "A" Champions
1998 -- Cherokee High School (Boys Assistant)

2003 -- Cherokee High School (Girls Head Coach)
@ Delsea HS
Top 7
Lisa Burkholder - 18:50/Megan O'Leary - 19:30/Abbey Anderson - 20:02/Amy Domowitch - 20:11
Megan Siler - 20:24/Kate Burkholder - 21:02/Kate O'Malley - 21:18

2006 -- Lincoln Sudbury High School (Girls Head Coach)
@ Franklin Park
Top 7
Dana Jamieson - 19:43/Jess Griffin - 19:57/Emily Mepham - 20:08/Barbara MacNeill - 20:26
Hannah Ziobrowski - 20:30/Holly Clarke - 20:30/Rachael Potter - 21:18

South Jersey Group IV State Sectionals & Eastern Massachuttes Class "A" Individual Champions
2003 -- Lisa Burkholder -- Cherokee HS -- Delsea -- 18:50

Olympic Conference(NJ) & Dual County League(MA) Team Champions
2000 -- Cherokee HS -- Olympic Conference Patriot Division Champions
2004 - Cherokee HS -- Olympic Conference Olympic Division Champions
2006 - Lincoln Sudbury HS - DCL Champions (Regular Season - Championship Meet)
2007 - Lincoln Sudbury HS - DCL Champions (Regular Season - Championship Meet)
Set All Time Franklin Park Team Average

Olympic Conference(NJ) / Burlington & Cumberland County(NJ) / DCL - Individual Champions
1997 -- Tim Callinan -- Sacred Heart-- Cumberland County Champion
Cumberland HS -- 15:49 (Course Rrecord)

1997 -- Adrienne Alexander -- Sacred Heart -- Cumberland County Champion
Cumberland HS -- 18:48 (Course Record)

2003 -- Lisa Burkholder -- Cherokee HS -- Olympic Conference Champion
GCC "A" --18:59

2004 -- Megan O'Leary -- Cherokee HS -- Burlington County Open Champion
Mill Creek Park -- 20:01

2006 - Dana Jamieson - Lincoln Sudbury - DCL Conference Champion
Great Brook Park - 19:18.3

2007 - Andrea Keklak - Lincoln Sudbury - DCL Conference Champion
Franklin Park - 18:16

South Jersey Top 25 Ranking - Courier Post
1999 -- 4th -- Cherokee High School
2000 -- 6th -- Cherokee High School
2001 -- 5th -- Cherokee High School
2002 -- 3rd -- Cherokee High School
2003 -- 3rd -- Cherokee High School
2004 - 1st - Cherokee High School
2006 - 2nd - MSTCA Coaches Poll
2006 - Mahon Cup
2007 - 1st MSTCA Coaches Poll
2007 - 2nd DyeStat NE Region
2007 - Mahon Cup

1st Team -- All Conference -- All County
1997 -- Tim Callinan -- Sacred Heart - Atlantic City Press All Area
1997 -- Adrienne Alexander -- Sacred Heart - Atlantic City Press All Area
1999 -- Melissa Razo -- Cherokee High School - All Olympic Conference -- All Burlington County
1999 -- Michelle Bilicki -- Cherokee High School - All Olympic Conference -- All Burlington County
2000 -- Michelle Bilicki -- Cherokee High School - All Olympic Conference
2000 -- Erin McHugh -- Cherokee High School - All Olympic Conference
2002 -- Malia Lyles -- Cherokee High School - All Olympic Conference -- All Burlington County
2003 -- Lisa Burkholder -- Cherokee HS - All Conference -- BURLINGTON COUNTY RUNNER OF THE YEAR
2003 -- Megan O'Leary -- Cherokee High School - All Olympic Conference -- All Burlington County
2004 - Lisa Burkholder - Cherokee HS - All Conference - BURLINGTON COUNTY RUNNER OF THE YEAR
2004 - Megan O'Leary - Cherokee High School - All Olympic Conference - All Burlington County
2005 - Barbara MacNeil - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2005 - Liz Albanese - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2005 - Kate Donaldson - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2005 - Terri Bello - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2006 - Dana Jamieson - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL - DCL RUNNER OF THE YEAR
2006 - Holly Clarke - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2006 - Jess Griffin - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2006 - Barbara MacNeill - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2006 - Emily Mepham - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2006 - Rachael Potter - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2006 - Hannah Ziobrowski - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2007 - Andrea Keklak - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL - DCL Runner Of The Year
2007 - Dana Jamieson - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2007 - Ellie Hylton - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2007 - Claire Arthur - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2007 - Emily Mepham - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2007 - Holly Clarke - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL
2007 - Rachael Potter - Lincoln Sudbury - 1st Team All DCL

1st Team -- All South Jersey / All Metro-West / Globe All Scholastic / All Hearld Team
1997 -- Adrienne Alexander -- Scared Heart HS - ASJ
1999 -- Melissa Razo -- Cherokee HS - ASJ
1999 -- Michelle Bilicki -- Cherokee HS - ASJ
2002 -- Malia Lyles -- Cherokee HS - ASJ
2003 -- Lisa Burkholder -- Cherokee HS - ASJ
2003 -- Megan O'Leary -- Cherokee HS - ASJ
2004 - Lisa Burkholder - Cherokee HS - ASJ
2004 - Megan O'Leary - Cherokee HS - ASJ
2005 - Kate Donaldson - Lincoln Sudbury HS - AMW
2006 - Dana Jamieson - Lincoln Sudbury HS - AMW - GAS - AHT
2007 - Andrea Keklak - Lincoln Sudbury HS - AMW - GAS - AHT

Coaching Awards
2006 - Mahone Cup Coach Of The Year
2007 - Boston Globe Coach Of The Year
2006 - 2007 - DCL Coach Of The Year

All State -- Ed Grant's New Jersey Track -- Newark Star Ledger
1997 -- Adrienne Alexander -- Sacred Heart -- 3rd Team
2001 - Megan O'Leary - Cherokee HS - 3rd Team Freshmen Team
2002 -- Malia Lyles -- Cherokee HS -- 3rd Team
2003 -- Lisa Burkholder -- Cherokee HS -- 1st Team
2004 - Lisa Burkholder - Cherokee HS - 2nd Team

Coach Tarello's Record
1997 - Sacred Heart - 7-3
Wins vs Hammonton - Middletownship - Lower Cape May - Saint Augustine's - Saint Josephs - Wildwoond - Buena
Loses vs Pleasantville - Wildwood Catholic - Bridgeton

1999 - Cherokee - 6-2
Wins vs Cherry Hill East - Cherry Hill West - Eastern - Triton - Washington Township - Winslow Twp
Loses vs Shawnee - Lenape

2000 - Cherokee - 5-0
Wins vs Cherry Hill West - Eastern - Pennsauken - Triton - Winslow Township

2001 - Cherokee - 6-1
Wins vs Cherry Hill East - Cherry Hill West - Eastern - Lenape - Washington Twp - Winslow Twp
Loses vs Shawnee

2002 - Cherokee - 4-1
Wins vs Cherry Hill East - Eastern - Lenape - Washington Twp
Loses vs Shawnee

2003 - Cherokee - 3-3
Wins vs Eastern - Washington Twp - Winslow Twp
Loses vs Shawnee - Lenape - Cherry Hill East

2004 - Cherokee - 2-0
Wins vs Shawnee - Lenape

2005 - Lincoln Sudbury - 6-2
Wins vs Acton Boxboro - Bedford - Boston Latin - Newton South - Weston - Wayland
Loses vs Concord Carsile - Westford Academy

2006 - Lincoln Sudbury - 8-0
Wins vs Acton Boxboro - Bedford - Boston Latin - Newton South - Weston - Wayland - Concord Carsile - Westford Academy

2007 - Lincoln Sudbury - 9-0
Wins vs Acton Boxboro - Bedford - Bos Lat - Newton South - Weston - Wayland - Concord Carsile - Westford - Tyngsboro

Overall - 56 - 12

ANOTHER KIND OF HERO
[ Bill Lyon, written circa 1979, Philadelphia Inquirer... ]

A cold wind blew the golden leaves across the hard ground. They made a rasping sound, like a death rattle.

It was a sound that matched his breathing. Harsh and grating and painful.
The sweat was frozen in crystal crusts at the end of his hair that flopped each time he took another stride
and his feet fell heavily, jarringly, on the ground.

He wore sneakers that were tattered and shredded from the shrapnel of a thousand small pebbles over which
he had run. His sweat pants were gray. It was a color that matched his complexion.

His arms drooped with exhaustion, like the flowers bending to give way to winter, and his was a lost,
hopeless cause. For the winner was already across the finish line, far ahead, out of sight. And the other
runners had long ago left him behind.

His legs screamed at him to stop. His scorched lungs pleaded for rest. Even his socks seemed to fly at
half-mast around his ankles. Soiled flags of surrender.
Still, he ran.

In the autumn of our dreams, we are all quarterbacks. We are cunning and graceful and when we step into
the huddle everyone bends forward eagerly and the crowd rises expectantly because it knows we will deliver
the bomb just as the clock blinks down to zero.

Ah, but that is in the autumn of our dreams, not in the winter of out reality.

You want to know about reality? Then go watch the other autumn sport. It is called cross-country. Watch it
and you will know what they mean when they speak of the loneliness of the long distance runner.

Cross-country runners don't get scholarships. Or no-cut contracts. Or offers to endorse deodorant or panty
hose or coffee or cars.

Cross-country runners get shin splints and blisters on their feet and runny noses and watery eyes. One thing
more. They get a special kind of self-satisfaction that few of us are ever privileged to experience. Oh, it is
not from winning. It is merely from finishing, from even going out there in the first place and running
through puddles and briar patches and up hills and down hills and telling lies to your legs, and running on
even when the
others pass you, one-by-one, and geez, don't they ever get tired, don't they have a chest that's on fire, don't
they ever get the dry heaves, and who cares anyway because there's no crowd, no cheerleaders, just hard
ground and ugly ol' trees with no leaves and some guy driving by a car, honking his horn and grinning like an
idiot, and oh God, why don't I just slow down and walk for a little ways?

That, friends, is reality.

Oh, us silly damn sports writers, we get all caught up in down-and-outs and slam-dunks and power-play
goals and a frost-bitten World Series and sometimes we get the notion that what comes out of the mouth of
some semi-literate who is a millionaire only because his glands went beserk at an early age ranks right up
there in importance with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

So we tend to dismiss things like cross-country as "minor" sports, and besides, who the hell knows how to read
a stopwatch past the 4-minute mark anyway?

So in our jock fantasies, the hero is the guy who scores the winning touchdown. But that is not reality.
Reality is the kid you'll see when you're driving through a park or past a golf course, the kid with the
stocking cap and the sweat-stained sneakers, loping along way behind the field, his eyes rolling wildly, this
hypnotic trance of pain and puzzlement contorting his face.

Maybe he will not be able to put into words exactly why he runs. Maybe he will mention something about
"gutting it out" or pushing through the pain barrier or running on because he has this curiosity that drives
him to discover just how much he is capable of... or not capable of.

That can be the harshest kind of reality, and anyone who is willing to confront it, then he is, in the truest,
purest sense, an athlete.

Rare picture...Four out of the five athletes that appear in this picture I coached. The year prior to
the picture Jenna Darcy (leading the pack) won the Group IV 3200m State Championship under me.
Dana Palumbo (at the rear of the pack) was a freshmen for me who qualified for the Group IV State
Championships in the 1600 and 3200. When this picture was taken I was coaching Melissa Razo
(left in orange) and Michelle Bilicki (right in orange). This photo is of the Burlington County
Championships. Jenna Darcy won the race in 19:16 - Razo was second in 19:49 - Palumbo was 5th
in 20:16 - Bilicki was 6th in 20:22

#2 Dana
Jamieson

#1 Andrea
Keklak

#5 Ellie
Hylton

#6 Claire
Arthur

#8 Holly
Clarke