Salesianum School and University of Delaware standout and longtime award-winning Tatnall School track and cross-country coach Pat Castagno will be among ten inductees into the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame (HOF) this spring. An excerpt from the HOF announcement follows:

For 25 years, Patrick Castagno has coached Tatnall School track and field and cross-country teams to statewide dominance and national prominence.

Castagno joined the Tatnall faculty in 2001 and reinvigorated the cross country and track programs. Since then, the Hornets have won 62 state championships, with 273 individual and relay titles. Eight Hornets teams and five individual runners have qualified for the Nike Cross Country Nationals.

Castagno has been named U.S. Track and Field Coaches Association Coach of the Year five times and Delaware Coach of the Year 15 times.

Nearly 80 of his athletes have competed at the college level, including an NCAA champion and [fellow HOF] inductee, Juliet Bottorff.

One of Castagno’s former Tatnall great runners, CRR Sam Parsons, who also had a successful runner career both in college at North Carolina State and then on the pro circuit, went on to become Delaware’s first sub-four miler and the first person to break the four-minute-mile barrier on Delaware soil.

A successful college runner himself, Castagno was coached at the University of Delaware by another Delaware Sports Hall of Famer, CRR Jim Fischer.