[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 187 (Monday, November 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H5674-H5675]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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     RECOGNIZING UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LEGEND, COACH LANCE HARTER

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Arkansas (Mr. Womack) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. WOMACK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize a legend in 
University of Arkansas athletics, Coach Lance Harter, the longtime 
coach of the Arkansas Razorback Women's Track and Cross Country 
program.
  Coach Harter retired this past June after having won seven NCAA 
championships, including a trifecta in 2019 winning the NCAA indoor, 
outdoor, and cross-country titles.

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  Harter's program has been named the Program of the Year twice in 2022 
and 2023 by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches 
Association.
  His career numbers are staggering: Nine National Coach of the Year 
honors, 45 conference championships, 25 regional championships, 46 SEC 
Coach of the Year awards, 654 All-Americans, 472 of them first teamers, 
and 31 Academic All-Americans.
  He has represented the United States five times on the international 
circuit, including the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona. Team USA head 
coach in the 1999 World Athletics Outdoor Championships and coached the 
U.S. women at the 2003 World Athletics Cross-Country Championships in 
Brussels.
  Coach Harter came to Arkansas in 1990 after a very successful 11 
years at Division II Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. There he won a Division 
II record of 14 national championships--8 in cross-country and 6 in 
track and field. He was a Division II Coach of the Year 10 times.
  Arkansas is legendary for its track and field programs. Lance 
Harter's name and reputation are the epitome of excellence, so much so 
that the University of Arkansas named the track at the Tyson Center in 
Fayetteville in his honor, with his signature near the finish line.
  Mr. Speaker, it has been an honor for me personally to know Lance 
Harter. The legacy of this Hall of Fame coach will endure forever in 
the Razorback nation, and it is a high honor for me to recognize him 
for his contributions to the sport and to the young ladies he has 
mentored down through the years. I wish him and his wife, Kim, all the 
best as he settles into retirement after decades of remarkable 
accomplishment.
  Go Hogs.

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