By John Raffel
Correspondent
CLARE – Clare High School is slated to introduce its 2024 Hall of Fame inductees this week including Tim Gibson, who graduated in 78, and was school record holder in the long jump and was on the state championship 4×400 team which held the school record for 22 years and ran track at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids.
“I felt honored and was happy to be in with some of the great runners, and field event people and cross country people in the last 40 years,” Gibson said. “I was honored to be part if that.”
The 4×400 relay state championship was a major highlight for Gibson during his senior year, 1978.
“The same year, we were runner-up in in the 800-meter relay. Unfortunately I was a disappointing, to me, sixth in the long jump. I was probably one of the leading top two leading jumpers in the state in Class C going in. I had a rough go of it with the runways. I was so amped up that day. I had been jumping a foot farther pretty much all year long.”
Gibson said he ran cross country primarily to be in shape for track and field and improve his quarter time
Gibson lives in Ludington and is a realtor and has a cottage in Lake City.
Clare schools will be introducing the inductees on Sept. 13 at halftime of the varsity football game. The induction will next take place the next day at a brunch in the cafeteria.
