The 2016 and 2017 Northwest Conference male athlete of the year, from a Division III Ohio school, would record the eighth fasted time in the 2021 U.S. Olympic finals in the 400 men’s hurdle event – 5 spots and a heartbeat away from membership on the U.S. Olympic track and field team?
Not to mention the race winner was a gasp from a world-record set in 1992.
Bluffton’s own Trevor Bassitt, 2017 Bluffton High School student-athlete, is the "who would have predicted it guy."
Trevor Bassitt, 2017 Bluffton High School grad, shakes the hand of Rai Benjamin, winner of the Olympic trials 400m men's hurdles in Eugene, Oregon. Click here for the story.
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Trevor Bassitt, Bluffton High School graduate, will do something no other Pirate athlete has ever accomplished. He will compete in the Olympic Trials finals on Saturday in the 400-meter hurdles in Eugene, Oregon. Earlier this week he advanced to the semi-final roound. On Friday night he advanced to the finals on Saturday. Click here for the story.
8 p.m. - Friday, June 25 - Trevor Bassitt continued to advance in the Olympic Trials today.
After qualifying for the semi-finals in the 400-meter hurdles his semi-finals time advanced him to the event finals, which are taking place now in Eugene, Oregon,
The charts below show semi-final results that took place earlier this evening.
