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Full name | Herman Ronald Frazier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | October 29, 1954 (age 62) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Athletic Director, University of Hawaii (2002-2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Herman Ronald "Herm" Frazier (born October 29, 1954) was a 1976 Olympic Gold medalist in the men's 4x400 meter relay for the United States. He was also chef de mission of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team. He has served as the Athletic Director at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Hawaii.
Frazier started his athletic career as multiple sport athlete at Germantown High School in Philadelphia.He was a member of the Philadelphia Pioneers Track Club where he was coached and trained with Alex Woodley.
His collegiate career began at Denison University. He later attended Arizona State University, where he became an All-American sprinter. He was the team captain of the 1977 national championship track team. He graduated from ASU in 1977 with a degree in political science.
As a member of the US National Track & Field team, Frazier participated both in the Olympic and Pan-American games. In the 1976 Montreal Olympics, he ran the first leg for the gold medal-winning 4x400-meter relay team. Individually, he won a bronze medal in the 400-meter dash. He was also a gold medalist at both the 1975 and 1979 Pan-American Games. In 1980, he was a member of the U.S. Olympic team that boycotted the Olympic Games in Moscow.
Frazier began his administrative career as a graduate assistant at Arizona State University in 1977. He would later become a full-time administrator and remained with the University for a total of 23 years, eventually becoming the Senior Associate Athletics Director. He would earn his first athletics director job at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2000. In 2002, he left UAB to accept the athletic director position at the University of Hawaii where he would remain until 2008.