Cardinal Hall of Honor
Troy Amboree, Kymond Guiton, Jackie Harris and Jerry Nichols
One of the finest relay teams in the history of the NCAA Championships, the Cardinals' team of Jerry Nichols, Troy Amboree, Kymond Guiton and Jackie Harris put Lamar on the national map throughout the 1984 season, but it was in Eugene, Ore., that the team served notice that they had their sights set on the nation's top prize. Each individual, a standout athlete in his own right, came together to record a school record in qualifying for the finals. The Cardinal four stepped on the track against the likes of Oklahoma, Alabama, Southern Illinois, Baylor, TCU, SMU and Oklahoma State. By the end of the race, the Cardinals clocked a time of 3:03.72 – just missing their school record set earlier in the meet – to finish second only to Oklahoma. When the times were made official the Sooners edged out Lamar by a mere 66-hundreths of a second to claim the National Championship. This team's school-record time still stands to this day.
