Marsella picks Virginia

PHOTO COURTESY BILL HABEREK

Mike Marsella is all smiles with his parents Kelley and John after signing the paperwork for him to attend the University of Virginia.

 

Posted: Friday, February 10, 2012 10:00 am | Updated: 11:27 am, Fri Feb 10, 2012.

By DAVID MADDEN / Sun Staff Writer

As one of the top 50 cross-country runners in the nation, the question for Chariho High's Mike Marsella was not if he was going to join an elite college track and cross country program, but simply which one.

With official visits to Connecticut, Providence College, Villanova, Penn State and North Carolina under his belt it might have come as bit of surprise that the senior settled on the University of Virginia as his choice of school.