Kelly Blair LaBounty
- 1996 Summer Olympics: Women's heptathlon - Sixth
- 2000 Summer Olympics: Qualifier
Kelly Blair LaBounty (born November 24, 1970) is a retired American track and field Olympic athlete.
Collegiate career
Kelly Blair LaBounty attended the University of Oregon playing two sports, basketball and track and field. After two seasons she decided her basketball career would have to come to an end to focus on track. At Oregon she won a national title in the heptathlon in 1993.[1]
Olympics
Blair LaBounty placed sixth in the women's heptathlon in the 1996 Olympic Games held in Atlanta, Georgia, and also qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics, but missed the games due to injury.[2] She defeated Jackie Joyner-Kersee in the Olympic trials of 1996.[1] Blair LaBounty placed third in the 1998 Goodwill Games in the heptathlon.[3]
Post-competitive career
She now lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her two sons Jacob and Lucas and her husband, former National Football League defensive end Matt LaBounty. She was hired as an assistant coach at the University of Oregon in 2006,[1] and served in that capacity until her position was eliminated in 2008.[2]
She was named to the University of Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004, and the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.[4]
References
- ^ a b c Anderson, Curtis (April 3, 2006). "Multi-talented ex-Duck leads". The Register-Guard. Eugene, Oregon. p. D1. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
- ^ a b Bachman, Rachel (July 5, 2008). "Noted athlete out as a coach at UO". The Oregonian. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
- ^ Coffey, Wayne (July 23, 1998). "Jackie Takes Heptathlon Survives In The 800; U.s. 4x400 Team Flies". Daily News. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
- ^ "Kelly Blair-LaBounty". Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on April 30, 2012. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
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Amateur Athletic Union
- 1950–4: Stanisława Walasiewicz
- 1955–6: Barbara Mueller
- 1957–9: Ann Roniger
- 1960: Jo Ann Terry
- 1961–7: Pat Daniels
- 1968: Chi Cheng (TPE)
- 1969: Jan Glotzer
- 1970: Pat Daniels
- 1971: Marilyn King
- 1972–3: Jane Frederick
- 1974: Mitzi McMillan
- 1975–6: Jane Frederick
- 1977: Linda Cornelius
- 1978: Modupe Oshikoya (NGR)
- 1979: Jane Frederick
The Athletics Congress
- 1980: Themis Zambrzycki (BRA)
- 1981: Jane Frederick
- 1982: Jackie Joyner
- 1983: Jane Frederick
- 1984: Cindy Greiner
- 1985–6: Jane Frederick
- 1987: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- 1988: Sheila Tarr
- 1989: Jolanda Jones
- 1990: Cindy Greiner
- 1991–2: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
USA Track & Field
- 1993: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- 1994: Kym Carter
- 1995: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- 1996–8: Kelly Blair LaBounty
- 1999: Shelia Burrell
- 2000–1: DeDee Nathan
- 2002–4: Shelia Burrell
- 2005: Hyleas Fountain
- 2006: GiGi Johnson
- 2007–8: Hyleas Fountain
- 2009: Diana Pickler
- 2010: Hyleas Fountain
- 2011: Sharon Day-Monroe
- 2012: Hyleas Fountain
- 2013–4: Sharon Day-Monroe
- 2015–6: Barbara Nwaba
- 2017: Kendell Williams
- 2018–19: Erica Bougard
- 20212020 OT: Annie Kunz
- 2022: Anna Hall
- Held as a women's pentathlon from 1950 to 1980
- Since 1992 the championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.