Bert Cameron of UTEP won five NCAA DI 400-meter titles – three outdoors and two indoors. He was the third man to win the DI outdoor 400 three times and was just 0.02 seconds away from being the first to win the event four times. He was a member of six of the Miners’ NCAA team titles (three indoor, three outdoor) from 1980-83, and he also won the inaugural World Championships in the summer of 1983.
Cameron posted several fast times as a collegian. His 44.58 to win the 1981 NCAA Outdoor was a collegiate record and the fastest in the world that year, while his bests in 1982 (44.69) and 1983 (44.62) were second-fastest worldwide in those years. After his senior year 1983 he owned the three fastest in-season collegiate performances in history.