Cross-Country Coach Retires After Half-Century Career
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- After 49 years on the track, cross-country coach Rick Kleyman is retiring.
He spent 33 years coaching at Armstrong High School in Plymouth before becoming an assistant coach at Providence Academy.
Students, former runners, family and friends came together Saturday to celebrate the coach's legacy.
"I got so slow in my running I couldn't stay up with any of the high school kids," Kleyman said. "I always told myself I'm done when I can't do that, so I quit."
Kleyman was also a math teacher at Armstrong for many years.
He has 41 marathons under his belt at the age of 76, and says his next race will be a 10K.
