JIM GULICK

Athlete, Lansdale HS, 1950
Cross Country, Basketball, Track & Field

Coach, North Penn HS, 1960-1981
Cross Country, Basketball, Track & Field
Coached NPHS to 1st Winter & Spring
PA State Track Championship 1981

Inducted 2005

Lansdale High School, 1950; Coach (Deceased) 

Three sport athlete: cross-country, basketball, track & field.  Basketball 2nd team All Bux-Mont senior year (3-way tie for Bux-Mont Championship).  Track: scored in pole vault and javelin in League championship meet, qualified for District Meet, finished 2nd in pole vault, finished 6th at State Track Meet at Penn State in pole vault.  Awarded Track Scholarship to Temple University, graduated B.S. in 1954 Temple University and later M.A.  At Temple: three year high scorer in track; highlights include 2nd place in javelin in 1953 Penn Relays; finished 2nd to Al Cantello who later set World Record in javelin; won IC4A Championship in pole vault in 1954 -- only third Temple athlete to win such a title in 60 years; competed in NCAA Championship at University of Michigan, finished in 10th place.  In 1955, drafted into U.S. Army, served in Counter-Intelligence Corps, stationed in Manhattan, NYC.  Selected to train for 1956 Olympic Games Trials, won Army Area pole vault Championship at West Point in June 1956, advanced to Inter-Service Championship in decathlon at Los Angeles Coliseum, and advanced to Olympic Trials Decathlon at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, July 1956.  Discharged from Army in 1956, returned to Temple for Masters degree.  In 1959 started Cross Country program at Souderton H.S., assisted in Spring track.  In 1960 took position at North Penn, 1962-68 head Coach of cross country and assistant Coach of track; four District Championships in cross country and undefeated in Bux-Mont League, 4th place 1964 State Cross Country Championships.  Assistant basketball Coach to Marvin Angstadt from 1969-70; 1971-81 head Coach of track and field at NPHS, won 5 Bux-Mont League titles, and in 1980 and 1981, won District I Track Championships.  In 1981, NP won the boys PIAA Class AAA State Track and Field Championships.  Also that winter, NP won the indoor State Championship sponsored by the Coaches Association.  Retired from Coaching track in 1981, retired from teaching in 1988.  From 1988 to 1992, head Coach of Men's and Women's Cross Country and Track & Field at LaSalle University.