Harold "Hal" Lynn

Two things that I remember most about Coach Lynn was that he was always very calm.  Some coaches are shouters and some are motivators.  Coach Lynn was a great motivator. And he understood the love of running that motivates distance runners. At the end of my senior year, just before graduation, I completed a half-marathon race, fourteen miles, which I personally dedicated to Coach Lynn.

After high school, I entered military service. In 1964 I returned to Claremont and worked for several years as a sports writer for the Pomona Progress-Bulletin. What I noticed immediately was that Coach Lynn had evolved his distance running coaching techniques and was producing more and more very successful runners. Change can be difficult for coaches but Hal Lynn stayed on top of the best methodologies of the moment.

It was also a pleasure to watch Hal Lynn, the batchelor, evolve into Hal Lynn, the family man.

RIP, Coach.

Ron Angle, Class of '60

Chico CA