Patrick Castagno
The Tatnall School
Impact Statement
Castagno has led the Tatnall Cross Country and Track and Field teams since 2001. He still continues to lead them to success state and nation wide.
Biography
Castagno, who coaches six teams at Tatnall – the boys and girls teams in cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field – led Tatnall, a school with a total enrollment of 266 students, to its eighth consecutive Division 2 girls state championship.
Starting in 2001 with just two boys and four girls on his roster, Castagno has built the roster to over 15 per squad. Tatnall was named the NHSCA Girls Small School National Team Champions by xcnation.com, which ranked the Hornets third overall nationally.
Tatnall competed against the top teams in the nation, scoring victories over 20 of the top 25 teams. He coached senior Haley Pierce to her third straight medalist honor. His indoor track teams have combined for five state team titles and his outdoor track teams for seven titles, with his girls team bidding for a sixth straight title this spring. Castagno was named Gill Athletics Mid-Atlantic Girls Track and Field Coach of the Year by USA Track and Field in 2011.
A nine-time state Coach of the Year, Castagno was named boys and girls indoor track Coach of the Year in 2011 by the cross country and track coaches association, N5CTA, making him the first coach to earn boys and girls honors in the same year since 1995.
A computer instructor at Tatnall, Castagno is a former Instructor of Biomechanics at the University of Delaware, from which he graduated in 1988, and the former director of the Gait Analysis Laboratory at the DuPont Hospital for Children.
Since being honored, Castagno is still at the helm of Tatnall’s boys’ and girls’ programs. Overe the duration, he’s led runners 200 state individual and relay state titles. He boasts 40 Delaware State Team Championship titles in Cross Country and Track & Field. He’s also coached 30 State individual champions.
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