FHSU Athletics

Track & Field (1952-55)
Jim Montgomery was one of the first NAIA individual national champions in FHSU outdoor track and field history and a two-time All-American. He, along with teammate Alan Feist, who is already in the Tiger Sports Hall of Fame, both won individual outdoor national championships in 1953. Montgomery was a national champion in the pole vault with a mark of 13-feet, 3-inches as a sophomore in 1953. He backed that up with another All-American effort in the pole vault in 1954 as a junior, finishing second with a better effort of 13-feet, 6.875-inches. He qualified for the national meet once again in 1955, but was unable to attend.