Rich Agnello

Rich Agnello's sports-behavioral health novel Going To Williamsport has been recognized as a Finalist in the Sports Category of the 2023 American Fiction style="margin-left:0px;">In addition, his primary school short story What Do I Do With Dewey? was one of only 40 Semifinalists in the 2022 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition from almost 800 submissions style="margin-left:0px;">Rich's books Going to Williamsport and Our Marian Pulpit: From a Lector's Soul House were recently featured on a podcast hosted by WCAT Catholic Radio in St Louis

Agnello is a Webster, NY native from just east of Rochester, and graduated fourth from his class of 188 in the Boys’ Division of Rochester’s Bishop Kearney High School.  Agnello went on to Marquette University, earning his Bachelor of Arts in Speech cum laude in three years in 1978 while graduating ninth in his Diederich College of Communication class of style="margin-left:0px;">Following his undergraduate studies, Rich completed a three-week wilderness expedition as a 1979 graduate of Outward Bound West in San Lorenzo, New Mexico, and then earned his Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business in one style="margin-left:0px;">Rich is the husband of Theresa (Cecil) Agnello and have been married since 2000, and they reside north of Columbus in Worthington, Ohio, where Agnello is an 20-year member of Lifetime Fitness and 9-year participant in That Man Is You! Rich and Theresa are also active 18-year parishioners at Worthington’s St Michael Catholic Church in the Diocese of