Charlotte Lettis Richardson – Caldera HS

As an athlete some of Charlotte’s career highlights include:

• Winning the 1975 New York City Mini Marathon.

• Olympic Trials Qualifier in 1976 (1500 meters)

• National level performances at every distance from 800m - 30 km.

Coach Richardson is a veteran coach with 50 years of experience coaching at a variety of levels. She has coached at the high school, college, and club levels. While coaching at Lincoln High (Portland) her boys and girls teams both won State Track & Field Championships in 2007.

Charlotte is passionately committed to growing and developing the sports of running, track and cross country. The author Amby Burfoot wrote a chapter about Charlotte in the book First Ladies of Running where 28 important women runners are featured. Charlotte is the Co-Founder of the Women’s Running Coaches Collective.