OBU Athletics Hall of Fame
Jay Chance from Oklahoma City was three-time outstanding athlete in Oklahoma Collegiate Conference Track Meets.
In 1953 he scored 16.5 points and won the 120 high hurdles (meet record time of 15.2) and 220-low hurdles and was a member of the winning mile-relay team.
In 1954 he scored 14.5 points and won the 120 high hurdles (meet record time of 15.1), was on the victorious mile relay team, and placed second in the low hurdles and long jump.
He placed fourth in the university/college division at the Drake Relays in the 440 high hurdles in 1954 and third in 1955.
He scored 17.5 points in the 1955 conference championship by winning the long jump, the 120 high hurdles (meet record time of  14.5), and the 220 low hurdles (meet record time of 24.0), and running on the championship mile relay team.
He was track team captain in 1955-56 and he placed first in the 120 high hurdles in the 1956 conference meet.
In 1953 he finished second in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles in the NAIA national meet, and in 1954 he won the 400-meter intermediate hurdles at the Kansas Relays.
Among his best times were 14.5 in the 120-yard high hurdles and 53.9 in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles in 1955.
An injury late in the 1956 season ended his collegiate career.
Dr. Chance lives in Jackson, Mississippi.
He has served as president and chief operating officer of THE TRUST, a support foundation for the Baptist Health Systems of Mississippi; vice president for institutional advancement for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; and vice president for development at California Baptist University.
