Nov 26, 2018
From the time she was 5 years old, Jocelyn McCauley had athletic
aspirations. At that time she saw herself as an Olympic
medalist. She channeled her dreams into cross country, a
sport she competed in throughout high school and college at
BYU. After graduation, she discovered her love for longer
distances and began running everything from 5Ks to half
marathons.
She registered for her first half-Ironman in 2013 at IM Muncie,
completing that race in under five hours -- only 11 weeks after
giving birth to her first child. She followed up that performance
at IM Texas in 2014 with a full distance, where she won her age
group and finished as the 2nd amateur female, qualifying for
Kona. Later that year, she competed at Kona -- her second
ever full Ironman -- and was the first female age-grouper to finish
that race. She decided at that time to go pro. Since
then, she has won 2016 IM Mallorca, IM New Zealand in 2017, as well
as 70.3 Vichy, France. She also finished 2017 IM Kona in 10th
place, with a 30th place finish in 2018.