Coach Magaro is native to the area, being raised in Highspire, PA and graduating from Steelton-Highspire High School. Coach Magaro has participated in team sports from the young age of 8 when he made his first midget baseball team, leading to high school and college athletics.

In high school Coach Magaro was a four year letterman in both football and track and field. His claim to fame is the fact that he was the smallest center in the then Central Penn Conference, earning him a Big 33 honorable mention, weighing only 138 lbs. This distinction earned him the nickname "Stormin Norman" which he is still called today.

His distance running experience began shortly after finishing High School, when he took to the roads, competing in most distance races from 5k to Marathon running. At College Misericordia coach Magaro was a member of the elite Men’s Cross Country team, and also a member of the first men’s basketball team ever assembled in the Colleges history.

While in College Coach Magaro has had the privilege of running with elite runners, from the Oregon East running club, which has taken him to racing events in such places such as Boston, West Virginia, New York, Pittsburg and all over the East Coast. He even ran a 2 day relay with 14 members of OE, across New York State from Buffalo to Albany, a distance of 283 miles where the team placed 5th out of 25 teams from across the country. "Distance running is not an event, it’s a Lifestyle".

His coaching experience extends to both the High School and College levels, in football, basketball and cross country. But he indicates that his best coaching experience comes from being coached by the finest men and women he has ever met, who taught him not just how to compete, but how to live life.

Coaching Philosophy

I am honored to have the opportunity to affect the lives of those I coach. I believe as a coach, I don’t only prepare young people to compete in an event, but have the ability to prepare them for the game of life. Coaching and Teaching are one in the same. The technical aspects of running are one thing, but the spiritual component associated with distance running is a totally diffent thing. The motion of running is an Art form; strength and speed are the elements that put it into motion. Experts say that 75% of Running is in the mind, I believe this to be true. "Strong Mind, Strong Body, Strong Spirit": a winning combination for life.