Elite Athletes
2024 Open Track & Field Grand Prix
Grand Prix Sign Up, Events and Prize Money Info
Double points will be awarded to valid USATF Pacific members (who must have signed up for this Grand Prix in their highest scored event at the PA Open Track & Field Championship. The meet will be held in conjunction with the 64th Annual Golden West Invitational on the weekend of June 1 & 2.
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
► RR PA’s Sara Hall 1st Woman at Marathon Project 26.2 with 2nd Fastest Ever U.S. Time & PR
Runner’s World Photo USATF News: “CHANDLER, Arizona — Sara Hall came tantalizingly close to besting Deena Kastor’s American women’s record and seven men broke 2:10 in a remarkable day of racing Sunday morning at The Marathon Project in Chandler, Arizona.” Read More… NBC Sport News Report Runner’s World Feature Videos 4:38 Sara Hall Is Changing Our Understanding Of The Marathon FloTrack 1:36 Sara Hall runs second fastest American marathon Galesburg AZ...
read more► MUT PA’s David Sinclair 3rd & Michelino Sunseri 4th at National Trail Marathon Championships
read more► T&F Houlihan shatters 5000m AR in Portland
Well there certainly hasn’t been much positive T&F news lately, but don’t tell that to the Bowerman Track Club. In a closed meet in Portland, BTC members Shelby Houlihan (14:23.92) and Karissa Schweizer (14:26.34) both broke Houlihan’s existing AR of 14:34.45. In the Men’s heat, Moh Ahmed destroyed his PR and Canadian record of 12:58.16 by running an incredible 12:47.20 which is now the North American Area record and 10th on teh all-time 5000m list. 35 year old Lopez Lomong continued his career revival by breaking...
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