Many university athletic programs cherish being called farm schools, i.e. Alabama is a farm school for the NFL or Kentucky is a farm school for the NBA. It is a testament to the efforts of the coaching staff that their athletes are prepared better than others to become professional athletes.
During the ’80s and ’90s, UH could have easily been called a farm school for its track & field program. Twelve different Cougars in total competed at five different Olympic Games between 1980 and 1996; the star of the pack obviously being nine time Olympic gold medalist, three time world’s fast man and UH alum, now assistant coach, Carl Lewis.