Lindgren has new gig — as UH cross country assistant

Maybe this will put Gerry Lindgren on a conventional path: coaching young runners at the University of Hawaii. With little fanfare, the school announced today: “Head coach Carmyn James enters her sixth year with the program and welcomes assistant coach Gerry Lindgren, who will handle the cross country program after Andy McInnis left for a job in his native Canada.”

The press release continued, in its off understated way:
“Lindgren has a lengthly track resume which includes 11 NCAA Championships, 57 American records, and one world record and was a member of the 1964 U.S. Olympic Team. A recent inductee into the U.S. Track and Field Hall of Fame, Lindgren once set a high school 5,000-meter mark which stood for 40 years.”
I just hope Gerry didn’t fudge the facts of his life on his resume.
Coaches lose jobs for such stuff, ya know.