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
► MTF PA’s Irene Obera Named USATF Women’s Masters Track & Field Athlete of the Year!
PA The PA is thankful for these outstanding members who received 2016 Tom Moore and Service Awards and the Hall of Fame Inductees. Learn more… Share this:Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Instagram (Opens in new...
read more► RR 2016 Silicon Valley Turkey Trot Videos
Elite Women’s Race Features 13 year old Grace Ping who ran 16:36, which broke Jordan Hasey’s mark as a world’s best for a 13 year old girl Elite Men’s Race Features Drew Hunter and overall winner, Morgan Pearson Over the years the Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot elite men have accumulated the third highest number of “quality performances” of any 5K race in the world according to the Association of Road Racing Statisticians. The Turkey Trot’s elite women have accumulated the 11th highest number of quality...
read more► MTF PA’s Obera, Upshaw, Sullivan Star on Team USA at World Masters Athletics
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read more► PA November – the BEST month to join or renew your membership!
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read more► COACH USATF Podium Education Project at Orlando, Nov. 30
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read more► TF 2016 USATF Pacific T & F Grand Prix Final Standings and Awards
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read more► RR PA’s Malcolm Richards first American at Berlin Marathon
Back on April 9th, Malcolm Richards set the Men’s World Record for the rarely contested indoor Marathon by running 2:21:56 at the Armory Track & Field Center in NYC. Yesterday he added to his Marathon bona fides by being the first American at the Berlin Marathon. Richards took advantage of the super fast Berlin course to set a PR time of 2:15:10 – he was 15th overall. The race wa won by the great, and now fully healthy, Kenenisa Bekele in the second fastest time in history, 2:03:03. Bekele just missed Dennis Kimetto’s...
read more► PA Board of Athletics Annual Meeting – Tues., 20 Sept-7:30pm at Foster City Rec Center.
All Membership is welcome to our Board of Athletics Annual Meeting, Tuesday, 20 Sept from 7:30-10:00pm at the Foster City Recreation Center. Click here for agenda, proposed 2017 annual budget, and strtegic plan update Share this:Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Instagram (Opens in new...
read more► ELITE Shannon Rowbury sets American 5,000m Record in Brussels
More below! photo by Image of Sport (photo from 1500m Diamond League win in Zurich last week) Read Details and view Race Video: FloTrack Article LetsRun.com Article Video of the race here Share this:Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Instagram (Opens in new...
read more► OLY Latest News on Kate Grace (advances to 800m Finals), Shannon Rowbury (4th 1500m Finals), Kim Conley (23rd, 5K Round 1)
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