Jillian Camarena

JILLIAN CAMARENA
Events: Shot Put
Height: 5-10
Weight: 235
PRs: 19.26m/63-2.25i (2006)
Born: March 2, 1982 in Woodland, Calif.
Current Residence: Provo, Utah
High School: Woodland HS (Woodland, Calif.)
College: Stanford '04
Coach: Craig Carter
Agent: Valentina Fedjuscmina
Club: NYAC

Career Highlights: 3rd at 2008 Olympic Trials; 2006 USA Outdoor champion; 3-time USA Indoor champion (’05, ’06, ‘07); 3rd at 2004 Olympic Trials; 2007 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2001 Pan Am Junior SP champion; 1999 Pan Am Junior DT champion; 7-time All American in the shot put

Camarena qualified for her first Olympic Team in the women’s shot put with her third-place finish at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. It was Camarena's first competition of the 2008 Outdoor season and came less than three months after she had back surgery to repair a herniated disc…At the 2006 AT&T USA Indoor Championships, Camarena made a bit of history in the women's shot put with her winning throw of 19.26m/63-2.25. The performance made her the #3 American of all time, behind only American record holder Ramona Pagel (19.83m/65-0.75 in 1987) and Tressa Thompson (19.44m/63-9.5 in 1999)…Camarena brought home her first national title at the 2005 USA Indoor Championships when she won the women’s shot put with her heave of 17.31m/56-9.5… showed promise with her third-place finish at the 2004 Olympic Trials, but did not meet the Olympic “A” qualifying standard. A multi-talented thrower, she holds the sixth best throw in the discus on Stanford’s all-time list…gained All-America honors while at Woodland High School where she won the 2000 California state discus title and the 1999 state shot put crown. Her runner-up finish in the shot put at USA Juniors earned her a berth on Team USA which competed at the 2001 Pan Am Junior Championships in Argentina, where she won the gold medal in the shot.

2008: 12th at Olympic Games (18.24m/59-10.25), 7th in qualifying (18.51m/60-8.75)…3rd at Olympic Trials (18.12m/59-5.5)...ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 18.51m/60-8.75.
2007: USA Outdoor runner-up (18.50m/60-8.5)…10th in qual. at World Outdoors (16.95m/55-7.5)...USA Indoor champion (18.46m/60-6.75)…1st at Stanford Invitational (18.92m/62-1)…1st at Triton Invitational (18.81m/61-8.5)…4th at Fortaleza (18.32m/60-1.25)…3rd at Belem (18.37m/60-3.25)…4th at Pan Am Games (18.11m/59-5)…3rd at Bad Kostritz (18.47m/60-7.25)…1st at Provo (18.36m/60-3)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 18.92m/62-1.
2006: USA Outdoor champion (18.92m/62-1)…USA Indoor champion (19.26m/63-2.25iPR)…1st at Spokane (19.02m/62-5)…1st at Modesto (18.76m/61-6.75)…ranked #9 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 19.26m.63-2.25i.
2005: USA Indoor champion (17.31m/56-9.5i)…4th at USA Outdoors (17.72m/58-1.75)…1st at Tucson (17.94m/58-10.25)…1st at Reno (17.72m/58-1.75i)…1st at Boise (17.10m/56-1.25)…ranked #4 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 17.94m/58-10.25.
2004: 3rd in SP at U.S. Olympic Trials (17.73m/58-2)...2nd in SP at Cardinal Invitational (18.15m/59-6.75PR)...NCAA Outdoor Championships runner-up (18.11m/59-5)...Pac-10 SP champion (17.63m/57-10.25)...2nd at NCAA Indoors (17.27m/56-8)...3rd at Boise (17.44m/57-2.75i)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 18.15m/59-6.75.
2003: 7th in SP at USA Outdoors (17.23m/56-6 1/2)...3rd at NCAA Outdoors (17.49m/57-4.75)...5th in DT at NCAA West Regional (52.52m/172-4)...1st at Claremont (17.03m/55-10.5)...NCAA Indoor Championships runner-up (17.44m/57-2.75i)...1st at Boise (16.93m/55-6.5i)...best of 17.49m/57-4.75.
2002: 3rd at NCAA Outdoor Championships (16.80m/55-1)...9th at USA Outdoors (17.23m/56-06.50)...Pac-10 SP champion (16.72m/54-10.25)...5th at NCAA Indoors (16.46m/54-0i)...Pac-10 Indoor champion (16.94m/55-7i)...best of 16.94m/55-7i.
2001: Pan Am Juniors SP champion...3rd in SP at Pac-10 Championships (16.38m/53-9)...16th at NCAA Outdoors (15.39m/50-06)...USA Juniors SP runner-up (16.19m/53-1.5)...best of 16.38m/53-9.

07/07/08
Courtesy USATF