Pat Winslow

Who is Pat Winslow?

Pat Connolly is a retired female heptathlete and track and field coach from the United States, who was the U.S. track and field national champion in the women's 800m in 1960 and 1961 and in the women's pentathlon from 1961 to 1967 and in 1970. She won the gold medal in the women's pentathlon at the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada. A three-time Olympian, she set her personal best in the pentathlon in 1967.

She was the first coach of the women's track and field team at the University of California Los Angeles, which she coached to AIAW National Championships in 1975 and 1977. In 1983, she coached UCLA alumna Evelyn Ashford to a world record in the women's 100m of 10.79 seconds, set in Colorado Springs. In 1984, she coached Ashford to gold medals in the women's 100m and 4x100m relay at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and later that year to a new world record in the 100m of 10.76 seconds, set in Zurich.

She became head men's and women's track and field coach at Radford University in 1998 and was named Big South Coach of the Year in 2001 before retiring the following year. In 2004 she came out of retirement to coach Allyson Felix to a silver medal in the women's 200m at the Olympic Games in Athens.