David Scudamore was the 1997 US Marathon champion.

Palos Verdes High School

He was the first All-state Cross Country runner from

Palos Verdes High School Palos Verdes High School (PVHS) is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, Southern California, USA (the others being Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (formerly Rolling Hills High School) and Rancho ...

in Palos Verdes, CA in 1987. Later, he finished in fifth place in the 3200 meters at the 1988

CIF California State Meet The CIF California State Meet is the annual championship track and field meet for the California Interscholastic Federation. The meet was started in 1915 for boys and 1974 for girls. Every athlete in every high school in California has a direc ...

Leland Stanford University

Dave is a 2 time All-Pac-10 Academic Honoree at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1990 and 1991. He was a 2 time NCAA All-American at 10,000m in 1992 and 1993.

Professional running

Later he graduated and ran for the Nike Farm team in Palo Alto, CA. He won the

Pittsburgh Marathon The Pittsburgh Marathon (also known as Dick's Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual road marathon usually held on the first Sunday in May in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States, first held in 1 ...

in 1997, and in the 2000 United States Olympic Marathon Trials he finished 6th in a world class field. In the 1997 World championship Marathon, he finished 13th overall.

Honors

After suffering an injury to his achilles in 1995, normally a career ending injury, he came back after surgery to win the National Marathon Championships two years later. His training of cycles between 120 miles a week and 105 miles a week, never exceeding 25 miles on a long run were considered conservative for a marathoner. He was named to the Rehab and Sports Medicine Hall of Fame in 2008.

Personal life

His son Harrison finished 13 at the 2017 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships while a senior at Denver East High School. 30 years earlier, David finished 10th in the same race after finishing 15th the year before. He is married to American Sociologist

Jennifer Reich Jennifer Anne Reich is an American sociologist, researcher and author at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research interests include healthcare, adolescence, welfare, and policy. Her work on vaccine hesitancy gained widespread attention du ...

Achievements

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scudamore, Dave Living people American male marathon runners People from Palos Verdes, California Year of birth missing (living people)