Baylor’s Harbor makes Texas Track and Field Hall of Fame | Baylor

Former Baylor track coach and preeminent runner Todd Harbor has been announced as one of seven new members of the Texas Track and Field Hall of Fame selected by the Texas Track and Field Coaches Association.

Harbor and the rest of the 2021 class will be honored on January 7, 2022 at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine.

Harbor served as Baylors Head Track and Field Coach from 2005 to 2021 before retiring. With him at the helm, the Bears posted 23 top 20 results on the NCAA team, including eight in the top 10.

A native of Port Isabel, Texas, is also widely recognized as one of Baylor’s top endurance runners. He clocked 3:50:34 in his senior year in the mile, still the college record. In 1979, ’80 and ’81 he also won three consecutive NCAA silver medals in the 1,500 and took 79 silver in the Pan Am Games.

The remainder of the 2021 Hall of Fame class Jim Carlisle, a longtime course official who worked at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics; Terri Hairston, a two-time NCAA show jumping champion in Texas; Pat Henry, the Texas A&M coach who led the Aggies to nine NCAA team titles; Victor Lopez, rice coach and former head coach of the Puerto Rico Olympic team; and Gene and Joy Pouncy, who were record sprinters at Dallas Lincoln and SMU in the 1970s.