Seilala Sua
Seilala Maria Sua (born 25 February 1978 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a discus thrower from the United States. Her personal best throw is 65.90 metres, achieved in July 2000 in Sacramento, California.
She was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010.
Coach
Seilala Sua-Zumbado was an assistant coach in charge of the throwers for the University of Hawaiʻi Hawaii Rainbow Wahine track and field program in 2011-2012.[1] She also served as volunteer coach at her alma mater UCLA in 2005-2006 school year.
Athletics career
As a professional, Sua-Zumbado was a member of two US Olympic Teams in the discus (2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens), four-time USA Track & Field (USATF) National Champion in the discus, one-time USATF National Champion in the shot put and a three-time World Championships competitor. She was ranked in the Top 10 nationally in the discus for eight consecutive years and had the No. 6 mark in the world in 2001.[citation needed] While competing in the shot put, Sua-Zumbado ranked in the Top 10 nationally for seven consecutive years.[citation needed]
NCAA
Sua-Zumbado graduated from UCLA in 2001 with a degree in sociology and is the winningest athlete in NCAA track and field history. While at UCLA, Sua-Zumbado won seven NCAA championships and was a 14-time All-American, who competed in all four throwing events - shot put, discus, hammer and javelin. She still ranks in the UCLA's all-time Top 10 in each of those events.
In Pac-10 competition, Sua-Zumbado won six individual titles and was a two-time Pac-10 women's track and field Athlete of the Year. In NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships competition, she won four consecutive discus crowns and became only the second woman in NCAA history to win four straight individual titles in the same event. Her other titles include an Outdoor Championship in the shot put in 1999 and 2000, and an Indoor Championship in the shot put in 2000.
While at the University of California, Los Angeles, Sua was the second female athlete to win four successive NCAA Championship titles in the same event, the Discus Throw. She also added three NCAA Women's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships titles in the Shot Put, one indoor and 2 outdoor crowns. The seven NCAA Division I individual titles were the most for a single female athlete in NCAA history.[2]
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing the United States | |||||
1996 | World Junior Championships | Sydney, Australia | 8th | Shot put | 15.04 m |
2nd | Discus | 56.32 m | |||
1999 | World Championships | Seville, Spain | 6th | Discus | 63.73 m |
2000 | Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 10th | Discus | 59.85 m |
2001 | World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 5th | Discus | 63.74 m |
2004 | Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | — | Discus | NM |
References
External links
- Seilala Sua at World Athletics
- Seilala Sua at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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Amateur Athletic Union
- 1923: Bertha Christophel
- 1924: Ester Behring
- 1925–28: Lillian Copeland
- 1929–30: Rena MacDonald
- 1931: Lillian Copeland
- 1932: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- 1933: Catherine Rutherford
- 1934: Not held
- 1935: Rena MacDonald
- 1936: Helen Stephens
- 1937: Gretel Bergmann
- 1938–41: Catherine Fellmeth
- 1942: Ramona Harris
- 1943: Frances Gorn-Sobczak (POL) * Dorothy Dodson
- 1944: Dorothy Dodson
- 1945: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Helen Steward
- 1946–47: Dorothy Dodson
- 1948: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Dorothy Dodson
- 1949: Amelia Wood
- 1950: Frances Kaszubski (POL) * Amelia Wood
- 1951: Amelia Wood
- 1952: Amelia Wood & Janet Dicks
- 1953: Amelia Wood
- 1954: Lois Testa
- 1955: Wanda Wejzgrowicz
- 1956–62: Earlene Brown
- 1963: Sharon Shepherd
- 1964: Earlene Brown
- 1965–66: Lynn Graham
- 1967–68: Maren Seidler
- 1969–71: Lynn Graham
- 1972–79: Maren Seidler
The Athletics Congress
- 1980: Maren Seidler
- 1981: Denise Wood
- 1982: María Elena Sarría (CUB) * Denise Wood (3)
- 1983: Denise Wood
- 1984: Ria Stalman (NED) * Lorna Griffin
- 1985–87: Ramona Pagel
- 1988: Connie Price
- 1989: Ramona Pagel
- 1990: Connie Price
- 1991: Ramona Pagel
- 1992: Connie Price-Smith
USA Track & Field
- 1993–2000: Connie Price-Smith
- 2001: Seilala Sua
- 2002: Teri Steer
- 2003: Kristin Heaston
- 2004: Laura Gerraughty
- 2005: Kristin Heaston
- 2006: Jillian Camarena
- 2007: Kristin Heaston
- 2008–09: Michelle Carter
- 2010: Jillian Camarena
- 2011: Michelle Carter
- 2012: Jillian Camarena-Williams
- 2013–16: Michelle Carter
- 2017: Raven Saunders
- 2018: Maggie Ewen
- 2019: Chase Ealey
- 20212020 OT: Jessica Ramsey
- 2022: Chase Ealey
- 2023: Maggie Ewen
- Since 1992, the championships has incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.