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
► PA New members, clubs who sign up in November will get the months of Nov. & Dec. 2015 FREE!
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read more► TF Final 2015 PA TF Grand Prix Standings and Awards
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read more► PA Sept. 22 Assoc. Annual Meeting agenda and info
The Pacific Association will hold it’s annual Board of Athletics meeting on Tuesday, 22 September at the Foster City Library-Community Center beginning at 7:30pm. Before the meeting from 6:00-7:20 we will acknowledge our 2015 Association Service and Tom Moore Award Winners. Click here for full information and supporting documents, (scroll half way down the page). 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...
read more► TF More on Joe Kovacs Gold Medal Shot Put Performance at World Championships
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read more► TF Post-event FloTrack Interview after Rowbury finishes 7th in 1500m World Champs
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read more► TF PA’s Rowbury, SD’s Kovacs at World Champs – Report from Fred Baer
Read Fred's report below. report from World Champs email: [email protected] txt: 650.483.3733 Call: 650.483.3733 AMERICAN RECORD HOLDER SHANNON ROWBURY ON TRACK FOR WORLD 1500 MEDAL By Fred Baer Shannon Rowbury hopes to cap a world and American record breaking season with a World Championship medal Tuesday evening in Beijing. The San Francisco native out of Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep ran smart qualifying and semifinal races to reach the finals of the women’s 1,500 meters — Tuesday’s top women’s race. Although Rowbury is in the...
read more► RR Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot added to 2015 PA Short Road Grand Prix
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read more► UR Runner’s World article on Magdalena Lewy Boulet going long
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read more► RR PA’s Jane Kibii wins Grandma’s Marathon
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read more► PA Assoc Committee chair and officer nominations deadline is Sunday, 19 July
Reminder: Pacific Association Committee Chair and Officers nominations are now open until Sunday, 19 July at 11:59pm. Please consider stepping up and either nominate yourself or have someone nominate you for a position in a committee that most interests you to further the success of our Association and it’s programs! Click here for positions open for election and nomination procedures: 2015 Pacific Association Committee Nomination-Election information 2015 Pacific Association Committee nomination-election announcement PLEASE CONSIDER...
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