Miramonte High School

JANE FREDERICK, '68
As a Pre-Title IX female athlete, Jane Frederick faced limited opportunities to compete for Miramonte. Her family moved to Orinda when Jane was 11 and she joined the local AAU Track & Field team. She was taught to high jump and the following week, she set a local age group record of 4’11” at the district championships. In 1965, she competed in the National Pentathlon Championships. In 1968, Jane was offered a chance to go to the camp where athletes were training for the Mexico City Olympics. Instead, she chose to go to a Campfire Girls camp. Jane attended the University of Colorado, which did not have a women’s track program. In 1969, while studying abroad in Italy, she met an Italian Coach Franco Radman, who encouraged her to train for the Olympics. In 1970 she won her first National Pentathlon title and the Olympic trials, making the team for the 1972 games in Munich. Jane went on to competed in the Pentathlon in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. From 1972 to 1986 she broke the American record in the Pentathlon and Heptathlon numerous times, while winning several World University games and USA Track & Field Championships. In addition to her prowess in the Pentathlon/Heptathlon, Jane won US titles in the 100 meter hurdles in 1975, 1976 and 1977. Jane was inducted into the US Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2007