Elite Athletes
2022 Pacific Association Open Track & Field
Grand Prix Information
Meet your Athletes Committee Pacific Association Executive Board Representative,
Athlete’s Chair Jestena Mattson.
Jestena, a Fresno State alumna with record-setting collegiate performances, is also an Olympian, both at the Summer Olympics for Heptathlon and at the Winter Olympics on the Bobsled Team. She received a USATF Pacific Foundation training grant in 2021, folllowing exceptional performances in her post collegiate career.
- Definition of a USATF elite athlete: an athlete who has competed or who has qualified to compete in a USA National Track & Field Championship or U.S. Olympic Team Trials.
- Below are links to Pacific Association elite athlete news, and to the right are links to information to assist you with your pursuit of athletic excellence.
News for Elite and Emerging-Elite PA/USATF Athletes
- CLICK HERE to review reports about PA athletes at the 2016 & 2020 Olympics.
Archived PA News - 2019 PA Open T&F Grand Prix Awardees
► PA 2023 USATF PA Delegate Convention Reports
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read more► OTF Open Track & Field Grand Prix Final Results
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read more► PA 4th Annual Awards Banquet Is Saturday Jan. 27!
USATF Pacific 4th Annual Recognition Awards Banquet SAVE THE DATE!: Saturday January 27, 2024 Time: 4:45pm- 8:00pm Location: Veteran’s MemoriaL Banquet Hall, 161 Chestnut Street #20, Brentwood CA 94513 Cost: $39 per person Registration Form: https://www.simplyregister.net/register/?e=125252 Registration Status: https://www.simplyregister.net/status/?e=125252 Deadline to register is THURSDAY, JAN. 25 at Noon. Refer to the Awards Banquet Webpage for many more details, ongoing updates and news! Share this:Click to...
read more► RR PA Masters Runners honored at USATF Annual Meeting
Seven Pacific Association Masters runners were honored at the 2023 USATF Annual Meetimgrecently held in Orlando. Josh Muxen (M45-49), Jamie Heilpern (M50-54), Jacob Nur (M65-69), Christine Kennedy (F65-69), and Robert Qualls (M70-74) were elected Road Runners of the Year in their respective divisions. Tom Bernhard was voted into the Masters Hall of Fame It was Masters Hall of Famer, Jenny Hitchings, however, who was the top Masters honoree. Hitching’s 2023 was a year for the ages as she set Worlds Records in the Marathon (the only road...
read more► PA Check out the Inaugural Club Spotlight page featuring the Women’ Run Club East Bay!
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read more► RR CIM Celebrates its 40th Running!
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read more► PA USATF Pacific Loses Mike Fanelli
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read more► PA BofA Meeting on November 14
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read more► PA, OFF Missing from the Track: Phil Watkins
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read more► LDR USATF Pacific Foundation Marathon Training Grant Application
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