Wabash College Athletics

Presented by Ra'Shawn Jones '20

Geoffrey Paul Lambert, all of the runners, throwers, and jumpers who have competed at a national level in the last decade can look to you as the athlete who showed us that Wabash men could compete for and win championships.
 
Your distance coach, Roger Busch, said you never once hesitated when you knew what it would take to become a champion. Men of Wabash — Nothing Breaks Us.
 
You are credited with kick-starting our distance and middle-distance running dominance that would lead to an unprecedented five straight indoor and outdoor conference championships in the years following your graduation. You laid the foundation for the next decade of exceptional distance runners at Wabash.
 
In the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships, there was never, ever a better athlete at 800 meters — and that’s with incredible respect to Kevin McCarthy and Jake Waterman. You won conference titles, indoors and outdoors, in all four seasons, winning eight straight titles and earning NCAC Middle Distance Runner of the Year honors three times.
 
You were a two-time All-American — running to seventh place in the 2006 Indoor National Championships (the highest finish by a Wabash man in track in a decade) and you were the national runner-up a year later.
 
You were a two-time Wabash MVP in track and field, and in 2007 you were honored as the Pete Vaughan Award Winner as the outstanding athlete of the year.
 
It is a great honor for me — on behalf of the National Association of Wabash Men — to induct you into the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame.