Jack Bacheler (1981) - Hall of Fame - Miami University RedHawks

Jack Bacheler

Induction:
1981
Class:
1966

Jack Bacheler earned All-America honors at Miami by finishing seventh in the NCAA Cross Country Championship in 1964 and again in 1966 by placing second in the steeplechase in the NCAA Track and Field Championships. He also captured the three-mile run in the Mid-American Conference Track and Field Championships in both 1965 and 1966 and helped lead Miami to the All-Ohio and MAC Cross Country Championships in 1965.

He is the only Miamian to participate in two Olympics as an athlete. Bacheler was a finalist in the 5,000 meters in Mexico City in 1968 and finished ninth in the marathon in Munich, Germany, in 1972. Between Olympic performances Bacheler captured National AAU Championships in cross country and the 10,000 meters in 1969 and the six-mile run in 1970 while running for the Florida Track Club.

In 1980 he became an associate professor at North Carolina State with a Ph.D. in entomology, Bacheler continued his association with running by working with the distance runners. In 1979 and 1980 he coached the NCS women's cross country team to the AIAW national championships. He was inducted into the Miami Hall of Fame in 1981.