Jamie is perhaps best known to the public for his work in the sports department of The Journal News. From 1983 to 1995 Jamie covered high school track and cross country for the paper. His knowledgeable and extensive coverage of the sport was praised by the coaches and runners alike.

During his tenure with The Journal News, Jamie also covered such major events as the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1992 in New Orleans, the USATF National Indoor Championships, The New York City Marathon, The Penn Relays, and The Millrose Games. In 1992 Jamie was awarded fourth place in the National Associated Press Sports Editors Writing Competition for the best sports story for 13 newspapers with under 50,000 circulation. That particular article was a first-person account of running with a disabled runner in the 1992 New York City Marathon. Jamie could also be found covering other high school sports. It wasn’t unusual to see him on the sidelines of a football game or in a gymnasium covering a basketball game or wrestling tournament. His articles were always accurate, fair and entertaining to the readers.

When one spends so much time in and around a sport as Jamie did, it’s only logical that he would end up coaching. Jamie’s first stint was as an assistant coach in his hometown of Nanuet in the cross country and track programs in 1984-85. He later took over the head coaching job at Nanuet in boys’ and girls’ cross country and spring track from 1995-1997. Jamie started the Tuxedo High School boys cross country team in 1998 and was the head coach of the boys’ and girls’ indoor and spring track teams in1998 and 1999 at his alma mater, Albertus Magnus. Jamie is currently the head coach of the St. Thomas Aquinas College men’s and women’s cross country, winter and spring track programs.

While coaching, Jamie’s teams did very well. His Nanuet girls’ cross country team were two time runner-up in the Section One Class B Championships in 1995 and 1996 and were second in the Rockland County Championships in 1996. Individually Jamie coached Ricky Gross of Albertus to a New York State and Eastern States Championship in the 110 meter hurdles and coached a two time New York State runner-up Erin Haugh of Nanuet in the 1500 and 3000 meters.

Jamie is a former member of the Rockland County Hall of Fame Selection and Steering Committee. He currently is on the Nanuet, Albertus Magnus, and Rockland County Track Halls of Fame. This fourth generation Rocklander still lives in Nanuet and can be seen running the roads frequently.

tournament, Lee avenged one of his two defeats by beating Ron Lewis of Liberty, the defending Section Nine 98 lb. champion in the finals. Lee then went on to win the New York State 98lb. championship.

In 1969 Lee entered his senior year as a marked man. He was the defending state champion and now he had grown to the 106 lb. weight class. Lee equaled his junior year’s record of 26-0 and along the way won the Christmas Tournament, the Rockland County Championship, the Section Nine Championship, and for the second year in a row, Lee won the New York State Title. In 1969 Lee was the first Rockland County wrestler to become a two time state champion. In his senior year Lee was voted the Outstanding Wrestler Award by the coaches at the Rockland County and Section Nine tournaments and is a two time Journal News Wrestler of the season.

Wrestling wasn’t Lee’s only interest in High School. Lee played in the school band, achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, and was the senior class vice-president. This varied background, along with his achievements in wrestling, gained Lee an acceptance to Princeton University. While attending Princeton, Lee continued his wrestling career both on a collegiate and A.A.U. level. When he wasn’t wrestling for Princeton, Lee represented the New York Athletic Club. Lee’s four year record was 118 wins and only 20 losses. Three times Lee was named to the “All-Ivy” team and place in manytournaments around the country, including winning the Colgate University and Coast Guard Academy Tournaments. Being on the smallish side, Lee’s best success came at the A.A.U. and open

championships where he wrestled at the 105 and 114.5 lb. weight classes. Lee won the Eastern A.A.U. Championship, placed second in the National A.A.U. Tournament at 105 lbs., and won the Canadian National Open Championship held in Montreal at 105 lbs. In his senior year, Lee placed second in the National Federation Championship at 114.5 lbs. and was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler at Princeton University.

After graduating from Princeton, Lee spent a few years competing nationally for the New York Athletic Club, coaching wrestling, and traveling the world. In the early eighties Lee spent time teaching physics and chemistry in Israel and became the chairman of the science department at a local Israeli school. It had always been Lee’s dream to be a doctor and in 1987 Lee graduated from The Sackler School of Medicine, in Tel Aviv, Israel. That was followed by a residency at the University of Buffalo in Internal Medicine and a fellowship at Temple University in Gastroenterology until 1992.

From 1992 to the present, Lee has been a practicing gastroenterologist in Buffalo, Virginia, and now in Maryland, where he is a partner in the medical group named Atlantic Gastroenterology, in Ocean City. Lee and his wife Jennifer have three children, Matthew, Shawn, and Melissa. They live in Ocean City, Maryland where Jennifer is a stay at home Mom and Lee coaches his son’s soccer team when not busy in his medical practice.