Meet the Team
Meet Rose City Track Club – a group of talented runners who value the spirit of competition, camaraderie, hard work, and, most importantly, a shared love for the sport. Scroll for our team roster.
Teammates Karl and Adam crunched some numbers and put together a top 10 all-time list for the club; check it out below.
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Aaron Leopold
Hometown: Beaverton, OR
Occupation: Retail
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: 5-minute mile and sub-sixteen-minute 5K
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Adam Edgerton (RCTC Board member)
Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
Occupation: Tech Program Management
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Set new PRs at all distances from the mile to the marathon!
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Andrew Wilson
Hometown: Arlington, VA
Occupation: Urban Planner
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Sub-15 minute 5k, run my first half and full marathon
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Art Avitia
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Occupation: Corporate Banker
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: World Marathon Majors, sub 2:40 marathon
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Ashley Althaus
Hometown: Portland, OR
Occupation: physical therapist
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: sub-2:45 marathon and complete all the world majors (one more to go after Tokyo 2024!)
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Ben Hodgdon
Hometown: Tillamook, Oregon
Occupation: Apparel Product Development at Nike
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: To complete all 6 (soon to be 7?) World Major Marathons!
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Bradley Parks
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Occupation: Journalist
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Run for life! Faster and farther until I can't anymore. -
Brandt Bergeron
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Bryce Doehne
Hometown: Kalama, WA
Occupation: Clinical Psychologist
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: My penultimate goal is to run a qualifying time to then race one of the majors in the next few years. I’d also like to run the Peachtree race, the Honolulu Marathon, and the Vienna City Marathon.
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Cameron Peshon
Hometown: Rochester, MN
Occupation: Residential Assistant Administrator
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Run Boston Marathon, Grandma's Marathon and eventually CIM
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Cate Maxson
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Occupation: Physical Therapist (Pediatrics)
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: I'd love to run the Timberline Trail, Backcountry Rise, and keep trying out new trail runs in beautiful places
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Chris Smith
Hometown: Portland, OR
Occupation: Teacher/Coach
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Boston Marathon and Western States Endurance Run
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Danny Burke
Hometown: Rialto, CA
Occupation: Product Marketing Management
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Running a sub 3 marathon. Planning out of country vacations around half and full marathon. Running in the Gay Games!
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Emily Gokita
Hometown: Pembroke, MA
Occupation: Content Strategist
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Get a BQ, run Wildwood end-to-end, and (if all that goes well) all the world majors.
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Emily Palmer
Hometown: Olympia, WA
Occupation: Environmental Engineer
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: The rest of the marathon majors (Berlin/Tokyo/London), a sub 1:32 half/20 min 5k, and running the Wonderland Trail over 3 days!
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Emma Notario
Hometown: Hemel Hempstead, Herts, UK
Occupation: Executive Assistant
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Running the London and New York marathons.
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Grace Cho
Hometown: Anchorage, AK
Occupation: Urban Planner
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Running the six world marathon majors! Two down (Chicago, Boston) and trying to qualify for another (New York). And fingers crossed on getting in to London, Berlin, and Tokyo. I'd also like to run a marathon in Korea and then go visit the towns where my parents grew up. I like to use races as a way of seeing the world and vacationing.
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James Healey
Hometown: Bellingham, WA
Occupation: Digital Product Exec @ Nike
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Break 3hrs in marathon, finish all marathon majors, run Marathon Medoc, and break 35:00 in the 10k.
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Jerry Carroll
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Jess Ditto
Hometown: Portland, OR
Occupation: Owner of Cascade RV
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Finish all six stars. I have 3/6 done with Tokyo and London on deck for 2023, still waiting on the Chicago 2023 lottery (fingers crossed!). My dream race is Marathon des Sables.
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João Costa
Hometown: Rio de Janeiro, BR
Occupation: Design Researcher
Bucket-list running goals, races, destinations: Short term: CIM and Boston. Long term: All the majors!
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Jon Owen
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Jonathon Tran
Hometown: Portland, OR
Occupation: Mechanical Engineer
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: To qualify/run the Boston, New York, Berlin, and Tokyo Marathons. Also to complete a full Ironman, 100k, and a 100 miler.
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Jordan Daugherty
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Jordan Steelman
Hometown: Hanover, PA
Occupation: Consultant
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Boston, Chicago, London, and Paris marathons; the full Loowit Trail loop
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José Mendoza
Hometown: Monterrey, Mexico
Occupation: Food packaging, self-proclaimed lifestyle influencer
Bucket list running goals, races, or destinations: Qualify for the Boston Marathon and finish an ultra!
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Juliana DePietro
Hometown: Davis, CA
Occupation: Public Health and Harm Reduction Professional
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Running a marathon in every US state (5 down, 45 to go).
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Julie Scherr
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Occupation: E-Commerce/Revenue Operations
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Sub 3:30 Marathon (goal), Great Wall Marathon in China (bucket-list)
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Kaila Gibson
Hometown: Santa Cruz, CA
Occupation: MPH:HA candidate at PSU
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: I would love to do some racing in Europe, get a PR in the 5k and do some longer distances like the half marathon.
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Karl Dickman (RCTC Secretary)
Hometown: Bend, OR
Occupation: Software Developer
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Bloomsday, Fifth Avenue Mile!
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Kaylee Wessel
Hometown: Saint Charles, IL
Occupation: Sourcing Manager, Nike
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: OTQ & run all the world majors
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Kevin Chin Shue
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Kevin Ward
Hometown: Philly, PA
Occupation: Stay@Home Dad
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Boston '24, Copenhagen Half, Skye Trail Scotland, Iten Kenya
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Krista Weaver (RCTC Treasurer)
Hometown: Wausau, WI
Occupation: Pediatric pharmacist
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: OTQ! Then tackling the Majors
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Laura Thomas (RCTC Vice President)
Hometown: Portland, OR
Occupation: Real Estate Analyst & Cross Country Coach
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: I'd love to race the Fifth Avenue Mile, Twin Cities 10 mile, and get to finally race Bloomsday in person. My dad raced the Cherry Blossom 10 miler a few times when he was younger, so that might be on my list someday too. I'd like to get a 6k XC PR and break 20' in the 5k.
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Laura Tokarski
Hometown: Portland, OR
Occupation: Non-profit Executive Director
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Run a 50K and qualify for and run the NYC and/or Boston marathons.
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Lauren Ross
Hometown: Wilbraham, MA
Occupation: Registered Dietitian
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: OTQ marathon, baby! Missed it by 23 seconds in 2020 and the 2024 time is 8 min faster. Getting there!
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Leah Koshiyama
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Occupation: Director of Responsible AI and Tech. @ Salesforce
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Complete all six Marathon Majors!
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Matt Maline
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Molly Christison (RCTC Events Lead)
Hometown: Woodland, CA
Occupation: Software Quality Analyst
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: So many! I love traveling for races, and I'm slowly chipping away at my bucket list.
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Morgen Pack
Hometown: Gualala, CA
Occupation: Professional Employer Organization Compliance Lead
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: 50k trail race, continue to run injury free, continue to refine my why, trail race in another country.
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Natalie Menard
Hometown: Glide, OR
Occupation: Project Manager
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Training for my first full Portland Marathon! Would love to BQ one day! More importantly, I want to keep running for life.
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Nicole Kiley (RCTC Marketing Lead)
Hometown: Portland, OR
Occupation: Public relations
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Explore my limits while meeting friends and exploring new places along the way!
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Pat Liu
Hometown: Madison, WI
Occupation: Addiction Medicine Physician
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: I would love to do a world marathon major, wildwood end to end and the wonderland trail! On the short list is a half marathon PR.
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Paul Balmer
Hometown: Portland, OR (Grant Generals, baby!)
Occupation: Attorney
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: I'd love to run the Timberline Trail around Mt. Hood. Race-wise, I'd like to run New York and Marine Corp marathons, and the dream is to run CCC at the UTMB.
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Rachel Wysocki (RCTC Board member)
Hometown: Saratoga Springs, NY
Occupation: Chiropractor
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Nothing comes to mind. Just enjoying where I am as I go.
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Rahul Marathe
Hometown: Pune, India
Occupation: Software Engineer
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Boston Qualify, 5-minute mile
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Richie Lenne
Hometown: Narberth, PA
Occupation: Data Science
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Oh so many: all the major marathons, break 70min in the half, Pacific Crest Trail, Tour du Mount Blanc, Dipsea.
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Robin Selva
Hometown: Columbia, MO
Occupation: Biomechanics Researcher - Nike Sport Research Lab
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: I want to run my first marathon by the end of 2023! I’d also love to run the Leadville 100 one day.
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Rozalyna Barrera
Hometown: Denver, CO
Occupation: Store Manager of Road Runner Sports
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: To run New York, Boston and Chicago. To run a 50 miler and maybe 100 miler one day
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Ryan Misjan
Hometown: Gary, NC
Occupation: Engineer
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Run as fast as I can in all six World Marathon Majors and have as much fun training as possible.
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Ryan Yambra (RCTC President)
Hometown: Portland, OR
Occupation: Media Relations for Multnomah County
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: I want to continuously explore the limits of my potential. I don’t know where that is. For me the journey is never over. I dream of running forever.
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Sage Gerdes
Hometown: Nampa, ID
Occupation: Physical therapy admin assistant & XC coach
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: A 'lil of everything! Road and XC 5k PR, a triathlon or two, UTMB, and slowly cross off running in every state over the course of my life.
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Samantha Bowen
Hometown: Tigard, OR
Occupation: Medical Scribe
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: This year I want to PR in the 800m, 1500m and cross country 5k. In the future I want to complete one of the trail races in Faial, Azores (where my family is from).
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Samantha Rober
Hometown: Bedford, MA
Occupation: Marketing at On
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Run a half under 1:30 and a 5k under 20:00, nothing else specific. Be motivated by all these wonderful team members.
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Sarah Ting (RCTC Gear Lead)
Hometown: Palo Alto, CA
Occupation: Graphics Manager for Pottery Barn Corporate
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Working on my half PR. 1:30 would be great but also running pain free sounds like a great goal right now!
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Sediqa Nedam
Hometown: Livonia, MI
Occupation: Project Manager
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Qualify for the Boston Marathon, complete a full Ironman race in Hawaii, successfully complete the big 5 (I want that cool medal! and no injuries!), and continue to love running.
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Steve Tokarski
Hometown: Billings, MT
Occupation: High School Teacher
Bucket-list running goals, race, or destinations: Would like to qualify for (and run) the New York Marathon, get a 50-miler under my belt, and run a sub-1:20 half marathon in the next couple of years.
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Steven Hallstone
Hometown: Portland, OR
Occupation: Category Manager @ Tillamook Creamery
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Short term: Qualify for Boston, run CIM, and break my 1 mile record from when I was 14 years old (5:00)! Long term: race in every continent and complete an ultra.
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Supreeth Mannava
Hometown: Edmond, OK
Occupation: Software Sales
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: I just want to continue enjoying my running, run in a lot of cool places, and not put any limits on myself.
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Teresa Wetherbee
Hometown: Portland, OR
Occupation: Neuroscientist
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: All the world major marathons and running the wonderland trail!
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Thomas Fuchs
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Tobias Probst
Hometown: Tampa, FL
Occupation: Regional Operation Manager
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Western States 100, Boston Marathon (qualified in Berlin ‘22), run the Wonderland Trail.
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Todd Moore
Hometown: Eugene, OR
Occupation: Digital Marketing & Content Producer
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: I’d love to run all the marathon majors – or at least all the American races.
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Valerie Weilert
Hometown: Santa Cruz, CA
Occupation: SR Footwear Designer at HOKA
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Race on the track as long as I can! Run a marathon or two - Boston & perhaps Valencia??
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Will Price
Hometown: Denver, CO
Occupation: Brand Marketing & Writer at Leggggs.com
Bucket-list running goals, races, or destinations: Fuego Y Agua 100K (Nicaragua), Boston Marathon, TransRockies Run, Cocodona 250, The Speed Project, Anywhere in Japan and Switzerland, UTMB