A road race giant spends time with a Merrimack senior and professor to discuss the wildly popular Boston Marathon

As part of her directed study program, Sarah May ’16, a marketing and finance major in the Girard School of Business, and Merrimack College professor Taesoo Ahn wrote a question-and-answer article with Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray, of North Andover, for International Journal of Sport Communication recently.
April 7, 2016
| By: Office of Communications

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