Bassitt Turns In PR, Bronze-Medal Performance At Outdoor Worlds

Hollywood couldn't have come up with a better script.
 
On Tuesday (July 19), former Ashland University head track and field coach Jud Logan would have been 63 years old. Months prior to his passing in January, Logan texted Trevor Bassitt, telling Bassitt he would be in the final of the 2022 World Athletics Outdoor Championship in Eugene, Ore., and that it was Bassitt's destiny.
 
Fast-forward to Tuesday night, and Bassitt in fact was in the finals of the men's 400-meter hurdles at outdoor worlds. And Bassitt's destiny was to finish in third place in a personal-best time of 47.39 seconds.
 
Bassitt was joined in turning in medal performances on Tuesday night by winner Alison Dos Santos of Brazil (46.29 seconds, championships record) and Bassitt's Team USA teammate, Rai Benjamin, who was the silver medalist (46.89 seconds).
 
It has been a busy and award-filled 2022 for Bassitt, who has earned the following so far this year:
 
- Four NCAA Division II national titles – three indoors, one outdoors
- Five D-II All-American honors – three indoors, two outdoors
- 2022 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) NCAA Division II Men's Indoor Track & Field National Scholar Track Athlete of the Year.
- 2021-22 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) D-II Men's Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-America Team Member of the Year
- First-team CoSIDA Academic All-America
- CoSIDA Academic All-District
- USTFCCCA D-II Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year
- USTFCCCA D-II Men's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
- USTFCCCA D-II Outdoor Midwest Region Men's Track Athlete of the Year
- USTFCCCA D-II Indoor Midwest Region Men's Track Athlete of the Year
- 2021-22 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Male Athlete of the Year
- Great Midwest Outdoor Men's Track Athlete of the Year
- Ashland's first The Bowerman Watch List honoree, March 24, 2022
- 2022 World Athletics indoor silver medal in the men's 400-meter dash
- 2022 D-II indoor nationals men's high-point Athlete of the Meet
- 2022 USATF indoor men's 400 dash national champion
- Fastest D-II indoor men's 400 dash in history (45.05 seconds)