Fast Footsteps To Follow ND SPORTS
Alexa Aragon, a junior, helps continue a proud family tradition of distance running at Notre Dame 31 years after her father Chuck broke the program's record in the mile.
PHOTO COURTESY NOTRE DAME MEDIA RELATIONS
Notre Dame's first four- minute miler now watches his daughters run for the Irish BY DAN MURPHY
thers like to tell their children as they head off to college. They heard about chickens showing up in the hallway and desks mysteriously falling out of
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lexa and Danielle Aragon heard the kind of stories that many fa-
bedroom windows. But their favorite story, the one about the giant banner stretched across the entrance to Mor- rissey Manor, is one that very few fa- thers get to tell. The banner read: "Chuck Aragon, 3:59.9." It was 1981 and Aragon was a senior at Notre Dame. He had just re- turned to campus from a track meet at the University of Illinois where he set a school record as the first Irish athlete to ever run the mile under the cov- eted four-minute mark. The race, in
