Upshaw-Margerum heads to Paris as DecaNation coach
W45 national sprints/jump champ Joy Upshaw-Margerum has been named women’s coach of the USA national team competing in the DecaNation team event this weekend in Paris. The event pits 10 male and 10 female athletes from eight countries in a team-scoring competition. (But it’s not a decathlon event.) USATF recently posted the four-member staff. Coach Joy is no stranger to Europe. She cheered her jumper sister Grace on to 10th place in the Athens Olympics. Minutes before flying out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Joy wrote: “This is such an honor & I’m so excited!”
