Robin Lingle

Ralph "Robin" Lingle (March 26, 1942 - April 5, 2007) was a former middle distance runner from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lingle graduated from The Stony Brook School, where he became the first athlete to win two championship cross-country meets on the same day, the Ivy Preparatory School League and the Eastern Scholastics States Championships. He attended West Point for two years before transferring to the University of Missouri, where he ran track and cross-country. He competed for a spot in the 1,500 meters at the 1964 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated during the semi-final trials held at Travers Island.

During his senior year, Lingle ran the fastest 1,000 yards (2:07.3), and the fastest mile of the year (4:00.3). He won the 1,000-yard run at the 1965 NCAA Men's Indoor Track and Field Championship, giving the Missouri Tigers their only first-place finish and helping them to the national title. In 1966, Lingle ran in what was touted as "this week's race of the century", the Halpin half-mile in The New York Athletic Club Games at Madison Square Garden against other middle distance standouts Bill Crothers, Tom Farrell, and George Germann. In 1994, Lingle was inducted into the University of Missouri's Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame.

In December 1966, Lingle married Margaret "Marky" Williams, completed his master's degree in electrical engineering, and passed up the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program in order to return to The Stony Brook School as a science and Bible teacher and track coach. He did return to Missouri to serve as assistant track coach and head cross country coach from 1972 to 1981, but finished his career back at The Stony Brook School, retiring in 2006.