Seibert Straughn (2019) - Hall of Fame - Murray State University Athletics

Seibert Straughn

Induction:
2019

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Seibert Straughn competed for Murray State men's track & field from 1989-92.
With a career overlapping with fellow hall of fame inductee, Stevon Roberts, Straughn was another successful story from the MSU-Barbados connection that produced back-to-back OVC outdoor track & field championships in 1991 and MSU swept both the outdoor and indoor championships in 1992.
Straughn's specialty was the 400m event where he was undefeated in four seasons of OVC indoor and outdoor championship competition.
He was named the OVC Track & Field Athlete of the Year in 1991.
He was a four-time All-America selection. He was honored in 1991 in both the indoor and outdoor 400m events and in 1992, he was honored again for the indoor 400m.
Straughn represented Barbados in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games in the 400m run and he was part of his country's 4x400m relay team.
He was back in the Olympic Games four years later in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain competing in the same events.
He won the bronze medal at the 1989 Central American and Caribbean Championships.
After his graduation from Murray State in 1994 with a degree in physical education & health, Straughn returned to his hometown, Saint Phillips where he remains active in coaching youth sports in Barbados.
He has served at Christ Church Foundation School since 2001 and as chair for the Barbados National Sport Council.
In 2004, with his days of competing at the Olympics behind him, he was the head coach for the Barbados Olympic track & field team in 2004 at the games in Athens, Greece.