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LWU Hall of Fame: In memory of Coach Stoner By Duane Bonifer Jamaine Gordon '07 made history twice at Lindsey Wilson. He won the Blue Raiders' first NAIA individual track and field national title, and on Saturday, September 13, 2025, he became the first track and field athlete to be inducted into the LWU Athletics Hall of Fame. Gordon's national championship story of how he turned tragedy into inspiration is worthy of its own place in the LWU Athletics Hall of Fame. In April 2005, a little more than a month before that year's NAIA men's outdoor track and field national championships, Lindsey Wilson cross country and track and field coach Gary Stoner was found dead in his Columbia home. Stoner died of natural causes. Gordon was among the track team's athletes who helped guide their Blue Raider teammates through the remainder of the season. "Losing him in the middle of the season shaped a lot of our lives," said Gordon. At the NAIA national meet in late May in Louisville, Kentucky, Gordon was among those who competed in the triple jump. Going into his final jump, Gordon was two inches behind the leader, whose mark was also two inches farther than Gordon had ever jumped. But on that final day, with his late coach on his mind, Gordon managed the strength to not only win the program's first NAIA individual track and field national title but do it by jumping 51 feet, 7 inches -- two feet farther than his previous personal record. "As I came up, I just knew. I had sand in my hand, just feeling it fall," said Gordon, who coached four individual NAIA national champions during his five-year tenure as Lindsey Wilson's coach. "I did my best Tiger Woods impression at the time. I just knew. And I must admit, that's why I don't have any knees now. ... The only thing I could think of was, 'I wish Coach Stoner was here for this moment to share.'" This story was posted on 2025-09-17 10:28:15
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