Southern Arkansas University Athletics

Bruce Hamlin was an outstanding track and field performer at Southern Arkansas from 1968-1971, earning NAIA All-America honors and was a four-time All-AIC sprinter.
 
He was a member of two Mulerider AIC championship teams, 1968 and 1970, ran on numerous AIC champion relay teams, and was the 100-yard dash champion in both 1970 and 1971.  The Muleriders won the mile relay all four years of Hamlin’s career at the AIC championship.
 
As a freshman in 1968, Hamlin was a member of the 440-yard relay team that posted a time of 41.0, and the mile relay team that ran 3:14.7, both AIC records.
 
In his sophomore season, the 880-yard relay team clocked a time of 1:24.9, a school record that stands to this day.
 
Hamlin and his teammates continued breaking records in 1970, as he anchored the mile relay that ran 3:13.7 for a new AIC record, and the 440-yard relay team that matched the 1968 team’s time of 41.0 to tie the conference mark.  Hamlin also ran a then school record 21.2 in the 220-yard dash at the NAIA national meet.
 
In his senior season of 1971, Hamlin was a member of the AIC champion mile relay team that set a new AIC and school record with a time of 3:11.5, and he was the 100-yard dash champion in 9.7.
 
His personal best times over his career were 9.5 in the 100-yard dash, 21.17 in the 220, and 6.1 in the 60-yard dash, the third fastest time in the country listed by Track & Field News, in January 1971.
 
Hamlin was inducted into the Arkansas Track & Field Hall of Fame this past June as a member of the 2012 class.
 
After receiving his degree, Hamlin spent five years teaching and coaching in Vero Beach, Fla.  He returned to Arkansas in 1977 and began work at Mills University Studies High School in Little Rock, where he is currently Chair of the Department of Mathematics.
 
He and his wife, Nell, have two children, a daughter, Megann, and son, Alex.