Let’s play catch-up with Ocean City’s Rich Scarangelli, who is enjoying quite a career at aviation and aerospace college Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Scarangelli won his outdoor opener, a 5,000 Saturday at the Central Florida Knights Invitational in Orlando, where he ran 14:34.09 unpreassed and won by 150 meters. Despite running solo, he ran the 3rd-fastest time so far this year in the Peach Belt Conference.
The previous weekend, he ran a lifetime-best 3:49.43 for 1,500 meters at another meet on the same track, and that’s 4th-fastest this year in the conference.
At the indoor Peach Belt Conference meet in Gainesville, Scarangelli won the 3,000 in 8:10.56 and placed 2nd in the mile in 4:11.25 and also ran on the winning distance medley team, which ran 10:09.90. The results don’t say which leg he ran, but I’m guessing based on the splits he led off and split 3:0354 for 1,200 meters.
At a meet in January in Gainesville, Scarangelli ran a big eight-second mile PR of 4:08.02. That’s from a guy who didn’t break 4:20 for 1,600 meters in high school.
Scarangelli’s 5,000 PR is 14:25.28 from a race he won in January in Gainesville.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 
his first name is Nick.
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