Ouachita Athletics Hall of Fame
The Ouachita Tiger track and field program won Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference Championships in 1935 and 1936, but then went on a drought in which the only AIC title in the next 30 years came in 1960. Enter Bob Gravett.
After taking over the program in the mid-1960s after serving as an assistant coach in the Tiger football program, Gravett built a program that would become a power in the AIC. Gravett, who also served as the Tiger cross country coach during many of his years as Ouachita, directed his Tigers to the AIC track and field title for three consecutive seasons from 1972-74 and added another back-to-back title period in the 1977 and 1978 seasons.
Gravett would go on to lead Ouachita to two more AIC titles (1980 and 1986) and ended his career directing the Tiger track and field program to eight conference titles. Gravett also led the Tiger cross country program to a title in 1992 and is the namesake of the annual Bob Gravett Invitational held each fall during cross country season on the Ouachita cross country course.
Gravett, a multiple winner of the AIC and NAIA District 17 Coach of the Year Awards, was inducted into the NAIA National Hall of Fame in 1986.
