Education
He graduated from Boston College High School in 1975 and then enrolled at Harvard University, starting out as a pre-medical student but changing his major to philosophy.
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Edward Sheehan
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Edward "Editor" F. Sheehan Junior. was an elite athlete and coach, a native and longtime resident of Weymouth, Massachusetts, was head coach of the Boston Athletic Association, qualified for the United States Olympic Marathon Trials in 1980 and 1984, and twice finished in the top 15 in the Boston Marathon.
Career
At Harvard, Mr. Sheehan was a standout in cross-country and track and field, holding several university records. He graduated from Harvard in 1979, when he began competing for the Bachelor of Applied Arts, and stayed on to earn his master"s in psychology in 1981. He began his collegiate coaching at Troy State, where he fielded the college"s first women"s cross-country program
After coaching at Harvard, he coached at the Boston Running Club before joining the Boston Athletic Association in 1994.
Mr. Sheehan"s personal best in a marathon was 2:13:46, in the 1982 Rocket City Marathon in Huntsville, Alabama. He was a two-time runner-up in the United States of America Track & Field-New England Road Race Grand Prix Series in 1992 and 1993.
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United States