Athletics Feature
2010: Coach Bauer yells, “RUN FASTER!”
1980: Tim runs the mile at the NAIA Nationals at SHU, and earns All-American honors.
2009: Bauer poses with his defending National Champion men’s 4x800 relay team.
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The Tough Years
However, Pat Palmer, the running coach at Findlay College, called and offered Bauer a scholarship. He remembers his first day of college cross
country practice well.
Sports like cross country and track are rarely
considered “contact” sports. But Bauer coached
like the Woody Hayes-led Buckeyes—which
meant his athletes had to be tough both mentally
and physically.
“I hadn’t run in a while,” said Bauer, who admitted
he spent most of the previous summer playing
basketball. “Pat said, ‘OK guys, 20 miles.’ I go,
‘Is that 10 (miles) now and 10 later?’ He said,
‘No, 20 miles.’ … That’s how I started at Findlay.”
In the fall of 1978, Findlay ran in a cross country
meet at little-known Siena Heights. Siena was
dedicating its new fieldhouse, and the race finished inside the facility to celebrate the occasion.
For starters, Bauer brought his running spikes,
which was a problem since some of the race was
going to be run on the asphalt road. And when
he and a teammate were the