Steve Bartold (1992) - Hall of Fame - St. John's University Athletics

Steve Bartold

Induction:
1992
Class:
1957

Both a star runner and celebrated coach at St. John's, Steve Bartold graduated in 1957 as a two-time school record holder (440-yard dash, 440-yard sprint medley), multiple-time metropolitan intercollegiate champion and a member of St. John's winning sprint medley relay team at the famed Penn Relays as a senior. As a coach, Bartold led St. John's to the Metropolitan Cross Country Championship in 1961 and 1965 and guided his team to the No. 13 national ranking in 1986. Bartold also won a pair of Metropolitan indoor track titles and an outdoor track championship as a coach and mentored two-time 64 Olympian and one of St. John's greatest middledistance runners, Tom Farrell.