Missouri State

Richard Clark
Cross Country-Track 1962-65; Cross Country-Track Coach 1979-05
Inducted February 10, 2018

Distance running standout Richard Clark actually participated in four sports as an undergraduate for the Bears, running primarily the mile in track. The Thayer native returned to coach MSU to the 1979 and 1980 Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association championships and guided the Bears to five Mid-Continent Conference cross country titles in the eight years MSU was in that league. He was selected coach of the year five times and his tenure produced three individual conference champions in cross country and 28 all-conference performers in the three leagues in which he coached while at MSU.