Todd Scully Explained

Todd Scully
Full Name:Clark Todd Scully
Nationality:American
Sport:Athletics
Event:Racewalking
Collegeteam:Lynchburg College Hornets
Birth Date:13 September 1948
Birth Place:Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Clark Todd Scully (September 13, 1948 – September 6, 2021)[1] was an American racewalker. He competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 1976 Summer Olympics.[2]

He competed on the track and field team at Lynchburg College in the 1960s, and graduated with a chemistry degree in 1970.[3] He later returned to Lynchburg College for a graduate degree in physical education and secondary education in 1975. He is a member of the University of Lynchburg Sports Hall of Fame.[4]

He was selected for the Olympic team in 1980, but the U.S. boycotted the games. A 2014 alumni magazine of Virginia Tech, where he was a graduate student in 1980, described his disappointment: "You just spent four years making progress and improvement, and you end up not being able to use it. Between '76 and '80, I think I set seven world records. ... I was ready to compete."[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Big Island man killed in Bedford County crash . wdbj7 . September 8, 2021.
  2. Todd Scully Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417190910/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/todd-scully-1.html . dead . April 17, 2020 . December 1, 2017.
  3. University of Lynchburg alumni records
  4. Web site: Sports Hall of Fame Members. University of Lynchburg. en-US. May 29, 2019.
  5. Web site: Firsts in Virginia Tech History Virginia Tech Magazine Virginia Tech. www.vtmag.vt.edu. May 29, 2019.