Now in Wyoming, Nanuet Hall of Famer Recalls Track Career

Vin Cappiello was a track star at Nanuet High School back in the day.

Now a teacher in Wyoming, he was inducted into the NHS Sports Hall of Fame in November.

The Cody Enterprise just published a interview with him about getting into the Hall of Fame, about his running record then and his life since. They even tracked down former Coach Dave Hanson at his home in South Carolina.

Here’s a segment from the Jan. 5 article:

Cappiello grew up where track was a marquee sport. His father Vincent Sr. was a miler. His older brothers Paul and John ran for Nanuet. His coach Dave Hanson, 76, and an attendee at the banquet, churned out winners. Cappiello, one of six siblings, was one of them, a guy who recorded times still significant today.

“A competitor. That’s the word I would use,” Hanson said from his home in South Carolina. “You can’t make a sprinter, but a distance runner or a middle distance runner you can train.”

In 1984, Cappiello clocked a school record-setting time of 1 minute, 53.8 seconds in the 800 meters, a mark that three decades later only a tiny number of high school runners can touch.

“It would certainly get him into a Division I college today,” Hanson said.

Cappiello also was on the Nanuet 4x400-meter relay team that ran 3:26 and still holds the school record. Cappiello ran a 49.7 leg.

Read the entire interview at codyenterprise.com.