Greg Fredericks

A graduate of Wilson High School and Penn State University, Greg is one of the great distance runners in the United States history. As an athlete at Wilson, he won many meets and set many local and state records. He held the Berks County one and two-mile records and won the annual Venzke one-mile run. As a senior, he won the PIAA District III two-mile title and the PIAA State two-mile championship. At Penn State, he won the IC4A Cross Country title (1968). His mile time was 4:03.6 and his two-mile, 8:44 (1969). That same year he set a Penn State record with a time of 13:30 for the three-mile. Greg was fourth at the NCAA Cross Country All-American championships (1970), but the following year was his biggest year yet. He was the Florida Relays two-mile champion, the Penn Relays three-mile champion, the IC4A six-mile champion, the USTFF one-mile champion, finished second in the National Intercollegiate three-mile championship and was named to the All-American Collegiate track team (1971). He continued his track career, becoming the IC4A Indoor two-mile champion, the Penn Relays three-mile champion and the IC4A six-mile champion (1972). He finished second in the NCAA 5,000 meters and set a new American record in the National AAU 10,000 meters run. Greg toured Japan and won 5,000 and 10,000 meters runs (1974). He won the national AAU Cross Country Championship and was the top American in the AAU indoor three-mile event, finishing second overall (1975). While representing the United States in a meet against Russia, held in Leningrad, he won the 5,000 meters run (1976). Greg also won the Penn Relays 10,000 meter championship. He competed at the Olympic trials (1972 & 1976) and was selected for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that would have competed at the Olympic Games in Moscow which were boycotted by the United States.