Miramonte High School

JANE FREDERICK, '68
As a pre-Title IX female athlete, Jane Frederick faced limited opportunities to compete at Miramonte. Her family moved to Orinda when Jane was 11 and she joined the local AAU track & field team. The following week after being taught to high jump, 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 the chance to attend the athletic training camp 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 Italian Coach Franco Radman, who encouraged her to train for the Olympics. In 1970, she won her first National Pentathlon and Olympic Trials titles, making the team for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Jane went on to compete in the pentathlon in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. From 1972 to 1986, she broke the American record in the pentathlon and heptathlon numerous times, all 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 & Field Hall of Fame in 2007.