Features
Former track standout Garn shining in first year as pro
It’s been 14 months since Jesse Garn competed in his last track & field race for Binghamton University. Like many of his classmates, he has been busy establishing his professional career.
That career, however, is also on the track and has gotten off to an impressive start.
Garn moved three hours east to Westchester County after graduation to begin his professional track career. He joined the New Jersey-New York Track Club and signed contracts with both Flynn Sports Management and the running company Hoka One One.
After blossoming at Binghamton under the coaching of Annette Acuff, Garn is now in just as ideal a situation.
Communications office parlays South Korea ties into feature interview
Fans of Binghamton Athletics will see the latest installment of our feature videos when they watch a two-part series with former baseball standout Scott Diamond. What they won’t see is the series of events that made the interview possible.
Backtrack to 2013, when I was contacted by former communications assistant Anthony Naglieri, who had begun working for Cultural Vistas, a non-profit company in Washington D.C. that specialized in creating exchange opportunities for scholar students in South Korea. The program, called Korea WEST (Work, English, Study, Travel), is part of a mutual diplomatic partnership between the two governments to foster positive relations and create valuable opportunities for talented young South Korean men and women. Anthony was looking to expand the list of host sites in the United States and I agreed to welcome an intern into our Binghamton athletics family. After she spent six months taking English classes in D.C., Solbyol Kim came to Binghamton to begin her six-month internship. One of the first big events she worked was our Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. That year, Diamond was inducted on the heels of his advancement to the highest level of baseball as a starting pitcher for the Minnesota Twins.