Marcel Lucchese is a physical education teacher and licensed real estate agent from Kingston, New York. He holds a bachelor’s in health education from Florida State University and a master’s in physical education and exercise science from Brooklyn College. He competed at FSU on a track and field scholarship and won the 1993 Section 9 and OCIAA cross-country championship as an individual athlete. Lucchese coached cross-country, indoor track, and outdoor track in Kingston for 16 years, sending hundreds of athletes on scholarship and earning division championships. He has taught in the Kingston City School District for 25 years, with the past decade in elementary adaptive PE. He holds a New York real estate license, has worked on residential properties, and plans to pursue real estate full time in Southern California after retirement.