One time holder of two world indoor race walking records, Todd Scully hadn't missed a day's training in 9 years. Born September 13, 1948 , Scully started out as a runner at Somerville High School in New Jersey . He graduated from Lynchburg ( Va. ) College with a B.S. in Chemistry and a Master's Degree in Physical Education. He ran very creditable times like 49:5 for the quarter and 1:58 for the half. As a member of Eliot Denman's Shore A.C. Todd started serious race walking in 1971 when he was in the U.S. Army with Gary Westerfield.  Jake helped Todd with respect to technique when he came home on leave with Gary . 

By 1972 Todd was the alternate on the Olympic 20km team. He won this first national championship in 1975 in blistering 96-degree heat at the 40 kilometer championship with an excellent 3:21 performance.  He says that he is not affected too much by heat and believes in take liquids before and often during a hot weather race.

Volume is the answer to his training, for he puts in as much as 150 miles per week for long periods before reducing the load and sharpening with speed work. Todd has great desire and willingness to work hard.  He is a vegetarian and occasionally fasts to cleanse this body.

He coached track and cross-country at Virginia Tech. In December 1978, he ran the Charlotte, NC Marathon in 2 hours and 36 minutes. Todd was a member of the 1976 Olympic team at Montreal and had the indoor 1 mile world record of 5:55.8 and the 2 mile in 12 minutes and 35 seconds. 

20K Olympic Games
1976 – 29th – 1:36:37.4 – Montreal, Canada

20K World Cup
1985 – 31st – 1:30:31 – St. John's, Isle of Man
1983 – 24th – 1:27:29 – Bergen, Norway
1981 – 21st – 1:30:22 – Valencia, Spain
1977 – DQ – Milton Keynes, GB
1973 – 7th – 1:32:23.6 – Lugano, Switzerland

20K Pan Am Games
1979 – 3rd – 1:32:30 – San Juan, Puerto Rico
1975 – 5th – 1:41:17.0 – Mexico City, Mexico