{"id":359,"date":"2008-03-19T07:26:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T13:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/19\/track-relay-team-wins-third-straight-national-title\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T07:26:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T13:26:03","slug":"track-relay-team-wins-third-straight-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/track-relay-team-wins-third-straight-national-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Track relay team wins third straight national title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/track4x400-march08.jpg\" alt=\"Track 4\u00d7400 relay team\" align=\"right\" \/>Continuing with &#8220;Athletics Week&#8221; here&#8230; While the Baylor basketball teams are gearing up for the NCAA Tournament, the Baylor track and field team just finished their run (pun intended) at the NCAA Indoor Track &amp; Field Championships &#8212; and the Baylor men&#8217;s 4&#215;400-meter relay team <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/c-track\/recaps\/031608aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">brought home the national championship for the third straight time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears&#8217; success at the 4&#215;400 relay under former head coach Clyde Hart and current coach Todd Harbour has led to Baylor&#8217;s nickname in the track world of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cttoweb.com\/quartermileu.php\" target=\"_blank\">Quartermile U.<\/a>&#8221; The Baylor men also won the event at last spring&#8217;s indoor and outdoor championships; the Bears are just the fourth team in NCAA history to win three straight. Baylor already holds the NCAA record, having won five straight relay titles between 1990 and 1992.<\/p>\n<p>The winning quartet was made up of freshman Marcus Boyd, sophomores Trey Harts and LeJerald Betters, and senior Justin Boy. Their winning time of 3:05.66 was the fastest in the world this year; in fact, Baylor owns three of the six fastest times in the world so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor track and field!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with &#8220;Athletics Week&#8221; here&#8230; While the Baylor basketball teams are gearing up for the NCAA Tournament, the Baylor track and field team just finished their run (pun intended) at the NCAA Indoor Track &amp; Field Championships &#8212; and the Baylor men&#8217;s 4&#215;400-meter relay team brought home the national championship for the third straight time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}