David Scudamore was the 1997 US Marathon champion.^[1]

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He was the first All-state Cross Country runner from Palos Verdes High School in Palos Verdes, CA in 1987.^[2] Later, he finished in fifth place in the 3200 meters at the 1988 CIF California State Meet.^[3]

Dave is a 2 time All-Pac-10 Academic Honoree at Stanford University in 1990 and 1991. He was a 2 time NCAA All-American at 10,000m in 1992 and 1993.

Later he graduated and ran for the Nike Farm team in Palo Alto, CA. He won the Pittsburgh Marathon in 1997,^[4] and in the 2000 United States Olympic Marathon Trials he finished 6th in a world class field.^[5] In the 1997 World championship Marathon, he finished 13th overall.^[6]

After suffering an injury to his achilles in 1995, normally a career ending injury, he came back after surgery to win the National Marathon Championships two years later. His training of cycles between 120 miles a week and 105 miles a week, never exceeding 25 miles on a long run were considered conservative for a marathoner.^[7] He was named to the Rehab and Sports Medicine Hall of Fame in 2008.^[8]

His son Harrison finished 13 at the 2017 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships while a senior at Denver East High School.^[9] 30 years earlier, David finished 10th^[10] in the same race after finishing 15th the year before.^[11][12] He is married to American Sociologist Jennifer Reich