History
Known commonly as Tom Black Track, the facility opened in 1966 after former Tennessee track and field coach Chuck Rohe spearheaded a drive to build a track facility for his program. The facility is named in honor of Tom Quay Black, a Knoxville businessman and snack foods entrepreneur whose company merged in 1960 with Tom's Snacks, [2] [3] [4] and who was president of the University of Tennessee Development Council in 1966 and 1967. In 1965, he and his wife, Katherine Whitten Black, gave a $50,000 donation from their family foundation for construction of the track and stadium. [5] The stadium around the track was later named in honor of the LaPorte family, whose donation contributed to improvements made to the facility. [1]
The first competition at the track was a dual meet with Alabama on April 2, 1966.
The record attendance for the facility is 9,000 for a dual meet with Villanova on April 6, 1968. [6]
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The 1995 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested May 31 – June 3 at Tom Black Track at LaPorte Stadium at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in order to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's collegiate Division I outdoor track and field events in the United States.
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