Baylor Women\'s X-C Team Preivew

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Athlete YR HS Racing Profile
Brittany Brockman JR Langham Creek
  • 4:35 (1500); 16:37 (5000); 33:46 (10000)
  • 13th Place Finisher at the 2004 Big 12 XC Championship (21:56)
  • 2nd Place Finisher (10,000) at the 2005 Big 12 Track Championship (34:14.31)
Monique Ortega JR El Paso Montwood
  • 10:29 (3000SC); 9:48 (3000)
  • 21st Place Finisher at the 2004 Big 12 XC Championship (22:19)
  • 3rd Place Finisher (3000SC) at the 2005 Big 12 Track Championship (10:29.39)
Brittany McGuire JR Humble
  • 4:38 (1500); 10:06 (3000); 17:13 (5000)
  • 53rd Place Finisher at the 2004 Big 12 XC Championship (23:29)
Lyndsy Bedell SO Plano West
  • 4:44 (1500); 9:55 (3000
  • 34th Place Finisher at the 2004 Big 12 XC Championship (22:49)
  • 7th Place Finisher (3000SC) at the 2005 Big 12 Track Championship (10:53.21)
Lauren Hagans    SO Little Rock, Ar
  • 2:07 (800)
  • 37th Place Finisher at the 2004 Big 12 XC Championship (22:55)
Adrian Robison  SO TR/Nebraska Kearney
  • 19th Place Finisher at the 2004 North Central Region
Erin Bedell FR Plano West
  • 2:07 (800); 4:43 (1600); 10:39 (3200)
  • 5A State Champion X-C
  • 5A State Champion in 800 and 1600
                                  Coach:                      Todd Harbour  
Todd Harbour

2005 Schedule:

Sep 2,                Bear Relays

 

Sep 10              Texas A&M

 

Sep 24                Roy Griak

 

Oct  15              Chile Pepper

 

Oct  28                  Big 12 ( Waco )

 

Nov 12              NCAA Regionals       (Waco )

 

Nov 21             NCAA

 

 

 
Todd Harbour is currently in his sixth season with the Baylor track program. Since the summer of 2000, Harbour has served as the head cross country coach, as well as an assistant track coach.

While at Baylor, Harbour has coached All-American Floyd Thompson to a fourth-place finish in the 800 at the U.S. Championships and saw Lanie Millar break the school record in the outdoor 800 meters.

Harbour has seen success with Baylor's relay teams. The quartet of Jon Capron, Damian Davis, Jonathan Pike and Floyd Thompson established a school-record time of 7:17.55 in the 4x800 relay, while the team of Ferenc Bekesi, Jon Capron, Matt Chance, and Nick Devenport set a school record in the 4x1,500 meter relay with a time of 15:40.08.

Under the direction of Harbour, Baylor's cross country teams also have experienced tremendous success. The women's teams have made back-to-back NCAA Championship appearances, their first two in school history. The Bears have hosted the NCAA South Central Regional the past two years with the women finishing second in 2003 and third in 2004, while the men have finished seventh both years. In 2003, the women recorded their highest finish in school history by placing second at the Big 12 Championships, led by all-conference perfomances from Angela Marvin and Brittany Brockman, who earned her second straight all-conference honor in 2004.

One of Baylor's most legendary track athletes, Harbour holds the school mark in the 1,500 meters and the mile and is the collegiate world record holder in the mile with a time of 3:50.34.

During his collegiate days, Harbour was the Southwest Conference Champion in the 1,500 meters in 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981. He claimed the NCAA 1,500-meter runner-up title in 1979, 1980 and 1981, the only athlete to ever win three consecutive runner-up titles in that event. Harbour won the silver medal at the Pan Am Games in 1979 and was ranked ninth in the world in the 1,500-meters in 1982.

After graduating from Baylor, Harbour ran professionally for Nike and was one of the top milers in the world. After the 1985 season, Harbour headed to Riesel, Texas, where he found another profession that would eventually lead him to Baylor.

Harbour began teaching history at Class 2A Riesel High School, then found himself coaching the junior track and field teams. From there he became involved with the varsity football program and eventually ended up as the head football coach and athletic director.

His success at Riesel included numerous district and regional championships in football and track and field. His track and field teams claimed district championships from 1987-90 and 1993-97 and produced regional championships in 1988, 1989 and 1994. Harbour coached eight individual state champions in track and field and led his cross country teams to a regional championship and a state runner-up position. Harbour was the 1995-96 chairman of the track advisory committee for the Texas High School Coaches Association.

Harbour's varsity football teams compiled a 51-24-4 record and advanced to the bi-district playoffs four times and the area playoffs once in his six years at the helm. Those accomplishments earned him District 16A Coach of the Year, Central Texas Coach of the Year, District 14A Coach of the Year and Lay Witness for Christ Ministry Coach of the Year honors.

Baylor saw success in Harbour's first two seasons at the helm of the cross country program. The women's team finished third at the NCAA South Central Regional, while the men's team placed fourth in 2001. Senior Kara Newton was the top individual earning her second consecutive trip to the NCAA Championships after receiving all-conference and all-region honors. She finished 10th at the Big 12 Championships and fifth at the regionals before placing 76th in a field of more than 250 at the national championships. In 2002, Harbour coached Debbie Thornhill to All-Big 12 and Big 12 Newcomer of the Year honors as well as seeing Kyle King to the NCAA Championships.

Harbour, a 2004 inductee into the Rio Gande Valley Sports Hall of Fame, and his wife, Cindy, have three boys: Jonathan (22), a senior and manager for the track and field teams at Baylor, Stephen (20), a sophomore sprinter on the Baylor track team, and Aaron (16