Hall of Fame
Charles S. Ackley, Jr. is a 2001 graduate of Marywood University where he ran Cross Country from 1998-2001. Ackley was the 2000 Pennsylvania Athletic Conference (PAC) Individual Champion after winning the Conference Championship race at Alvernia College with a time of 28.16. That time ranks second all-time for Marywood male runners in a Conference Championship event, only seven seconds off the best time set by Justin Zakovitch when Zakovitch won the PAC title in 1998.
A four-time PAC All-Conference honoree, Ackley led the Pacers to Runner-Up finishes in both 1998 and 1999. Ackley was an All-Conference selection during his freshman year and was a First Team honoree in 1999, 2000 and 2001 after the conference established separate First and Second teams.
Ackley, who was the Pacers’ team Most Valuable Player in 1999, 2000 and 2001, became the first male student-athlete in Marywood history to earn a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Post-Graduate Scholarship. He remains one of just three athletes in Marywood history to earn the distinction. Ackley was the team’s Co-Captain all four years and was also named to the Conference’s Academic Honor Roll in each season.
Now residing in Macedon, New York, Ackley graduated from Marywood with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences and later earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Marywood (2004). Currently enrolled in the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education, Ackley is pursuing a Doctorate in Higher Education.
Trained as a combat lifesaver, Ackley is a 1st Lieutenant/UH-60 Blackhawk Pilot with the New York Army National Guard, F Company 1st 169th Aviation. Ackley is married to the former Karina Wolfe, a four-year member of the women’s cross country team at Marywood from 1998-2001. The couple has two sons, Jameson and Everett. Ackley currently serves as the Assistant Director of Admissions Counseling at Keuka College in Penn Yan, New York.
*Bio written at time of induction.
Update (5/14/2018): CPT Charles S. Ackley Jr. a Marywood University Athletic Hall of Famer and graduate from the Class of 2001 and 2004 has assumed command of the Army Aviation Support Facility #1 located in Long Island.
CPT Ackley served with C 3-103rd Armor within the PA Army National Guard out of Wellsboro, PA from
1995-2008 as an Armor Crewman in a M1 Abrams Tank. He transitioned to the NY Army National Guard
in 2008 as an Aviation Officer. He deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 as a Medevac pilot and recently
returned from a humanitarian mission in Puerto Rico where he participated in the disaster relief support
missions following the devastation caused by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in 2017.
He has achieved a Doctoral Degree in School Leadership from the University of Rochester, Masters Degree in Teaching from Marywood University and a Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences from Marywood
University. He resides in Long Island with his wife Karina Wolfe-Ackley and three sons Jameson, Everett
and Braeden.
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