MSU Athletics Hall of Fame
TRUDI GARRETT SPAIN
Track and Field, 1997-00
Inducted 2015
Trudi Garrett Spain earned all-Missouri Valley Conference track and field honors as a sprinter, both indoors and outdoors, on four occasions and she also competed in the long jump during her stellar career for the Bears of coach Ron Boyce. A native of St. Michael, Barbados, where she was a member of the Barbados National Track and Field Team and competed in the national long jump championship event in Barbados, Garrett wound up with a total of six MVC event championships during her time at Missouri State and she qualified for the NCAA Division I meet in 1997 in the 400-meter relay and the NCAA 1,600-meter relay team as a junior in 1999. She ran on an MVC championship and record-setting 1,600-meter relay team and MSU record 400-meter relay team as a freshman and also a school record 800-meter relay team during her sophomore season. MSU rewrote the Missouri Valley Conference 1,600-meter relay record her junior season. Garrett won the MVC indoor long jump and outdoor 200-meter dash and long jump titles as a senior. Her running propelled Missouri State to MVC indoor championships in 1998, 1999 and 2000 and the Bears were second in the Valley outdoor meet all three years to Indiana State, including a setback of a mere two points to the Sycamores in 2000. At the time she graduated, Garrett held Missouri State all-time top five times in the 60-meter dash indoors and the 200-meter dash outdoors as well as multiple relay teams. Garrett was a three-time Valley academic all-conference pick and received academic all-district selection her senior year. She received both her undergraduate and master's degrees from Missouri State, currently lives in Nixa, Mo., and works for Wil Fischer Companies.
