About the coach....

JANI JOHNSON- MEN & WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD
jjohnson@cuesta.edu
    
Jani begins her eighth season as the Head Coach of Cuesta’s Track and Field teams. Jani coached both cross country and track and field for five years, but decided to concentrate on track and field in 2008. The Cuesta Men and Women’s Track and Field teams enter the 2010 season with an eye on improving the teams overall performance. Coach Jani Johnson has assembled a coaching staff that will enable her to have every discipline mentored by an expert in the field. Her husband Jan Johnson and Cuesta Instructor Dave Pomfret have been on her staff all seven years. Head Cross Country Coach Brian Locher tutors the distance runners and Ryan James is back to work with the throwers. Both Cuesta track and field teams have been finished in the top 12 in the Western State Conference in each of Johnson’s years. Coach Johnson believes her teams are ready to make another jump in the standings. She is excited about the ability and the facilities to serve every discipline.
Jani has extensive running experience and is one of Cuesta’s most accomplished coaches. The New Zealand native was the first female athlete to receive an athletic scholarship at Cal Poly SLO and excelled for the Mustangs as a seven-time National Qualifier and four-time All American. In 1979, she earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Education and in 1981 she earned her Master’s Degree in Education from Southern Illinois University. Jani continued to compete at a national level after college. She ran for the Nike South Team in 1980-81 and moved on to the Reebok Aggies Racing team from 1987 to 1990. She competed in the half marathon at the 1988 Olympic Festival and won the 1989 Southern California Grand Prix of Road Racing.
Jani has been at Cuesta since 1990 and has had a diverse career as a coach at Cuesta College. She served as the assistant track coach in 1991, the assistant cross country coach in 1996, was the assistant for Cuesta’s first women’s soccer team in 1995 and continues to serve as the coordinator for the college’s Employee Wellness Program. She served as the Assistant Track and Field Coach Atascadero High from 1998-2001. She helped guide the Greyhounds to the 1999 CIF Title.
Jani lives in Atascadero with her husband Jan, a Bronze Medallist at the 1972 Olympics in Pole Vault, and runs the Skyjumpers Pole Vaulting Camp. The couple has two kids, Chelsea and Clay. Chelsea won a pair of NCAA pole vault titles at UCLA and currently jumps professionally for Nike.

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2010 Schedule

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Track Bests

1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Men 2008 | Women 2008 | Men 2009 | Women 2009