FAYETTEVILLE — Here’s hoping Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame voters recognize track and field long enough to induct Lance Harter in 2020.
Other than retired Razorbacks men’s head track/cross country coach John McDonnell and his beyond phenomenal 40 official national championships, only Harter coached University of Arkansas teams to multiple national championships.
The late Frank Broyles, 1964 football, former Razorbacks coach Nolan Richardson, 1994 men’s basketball, and current men’s track coach Chris Bucknam, 2013 NCAA Indoor, won one each.
Arkansas women’s coach Harter won two just in 2019. His Razorbacks outpointed a great Southern California Trojans team, the reigning 2018 NCAA Women Outdoor champions, to win both the NCAA Indoor in Birmingham, Ala.