Matt Centrowitz's father was Jewish and his mother was an Irish immigrant.
11 Facts About Matt Centrowitz
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Matt Centrowitz attended Power Memorial Academy, where he won state championships in the half mile, one mile and two mile events and became the first New Yorker to break nine minutes in the two mile run.
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Matt Centrowitz attended Manhattan College in New York for one year, then transferred to the University of Oregon.
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Matt Centrowitz was on the Ducks' 1977 NCAA Cross Country Championship team and graduated from Oregon in 1978.
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Matt Centrowitz was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.
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Matt Centrowitz was the track coach for the Reebok Enclave, in charge of training distance runners who tried out for the 1996 and 2000 US Olympic Team.
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Matt Centrowitz is a member of the US Olympic Development Committee.
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Matt Centrowitz began his coaching career as an assistant track coach at St John's University.
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Matt Centrowitz restarted the track program at American University in 1999, becoming the cross-country and track coach.
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Matt Centrowitz was inducted into the University of Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame with the other members of the 1977 University of Oregon Cross Country team in 1998.
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Matt Centrowitz Jr competed for the University of Oregon and competed professionally with the Bowerman Track Club.