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
► LDR Pete Magill to be guest speaker at LDR Awards Banquet
Noted author, runner and coach, Pete Magill will be the guest speaker at the 2016 Pacific Association LDR Awards Banquet. Pete Magill is a 55-year-old masters runner, coach, and writer. He is the author of The Born Again Runner, released this past summer, lead author of the 2014 book Build Your Running Body, and a former senior writer and columnist for Running Times magazine. In his 30s, Magill was a screenwriter, with script sales to New Line Cinema and Disney. Magill has coached at the youth, high school, open, and masters levels. Over the...
read more► RR PA-Connected Boston Bound Jordan Hasay runs Houston Half in 68:40.
MORRIS/PHOTORUN Read all about it! Chron.com Runner’s World Let’s Run
read more► ELITE PA’s Kate Grace wins 3000m at UW Indoor Preview
Not only did Kate Grace win the race but defeated Sifan Hassan and set a facility best by running 8:47.26. Let’s Run article
read more► LDR 2016 LDR Awards Banquet, March 12th
The 2016 Pacific Association LDR Awards Banquet will be held at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco on March 12, 2017. Tentative time of the event will be from 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM. More information along with registration details will be published shortly.
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