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Paul Linehan |
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Paul Linehan |
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Arthur Allen
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In
the final race of his Ranger athletic career, four-year varsity letterman
Paul Linehan captured the 300-meter intermediate hurdles crown and broke
the state record in the process, an accomplishment book-ending a senior
year that had already seen Paul, a two-year varsity letterman in football,
recognized as the All-Private 1971 Offensive Player of the Year. After graduating from Jesuit, Paul, a captain for both the football and track teams, received the school’s scholar-athlete award and accepted a four-year football scholarship to the University of Notre Dame, where he played football with his Ranger teammates, Robin Weber ’72 and Tom Unis ’73. He remains proud to have been a part of the undefeated 1973 national championship team. Although his university athletic career was cut short as a result of two knee surgeries by his junior year, Paul’s academic career became increasingly notable, for when he graduated from Notre Dame, he was chosen to design and build a park on the Notre Dame campus. Subsequently attending the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he also coached the freshman football team, Paul received his master’s in landscape architecture in 1979. Married to Wendy Griffin that summer, the two moved to Paul and Wendy have three children: Jaki, Keli, and Michael. He enjoys his time away from work playing racquetball, water/snow skiing, hunting, traveling, coaching, and engaging in his children’s activities. |
