Lissa Olson serves as Volunteer Assistant Coach (Jumps/Multi-Events) for University of California, Berkeley's Track & Field program in Berkeley. The Cal source profile describes Olson's current role and recent program context, including that Lissa Olson enters her second year at Cal aiding in the development of the Bears’ jumpers and multi-eventers under assistant coach Dan Lefever in 2025-26. In the 2025 season, the men’s outdoor pole vault (13th) and men’s outdoor high jump (20th) groups finished the year with national top-25 rankings, while pole vaulter Tyler Burns was ranked seventh indoors and heptathlete Seth Johnson 13th; both athletes also earned Second-Team All-America honors in the indoor season.
The same profile adds background on Olson's coaching path, team results, and player-development record. Olson led the jumps and women’s sprints and relays squads as associate head coach at South Florida (2008-13), overseeing 10 individual Big East titles and five school records. Olson was an assistant coach for the sprints, hurdles and jumps at Purdue from 1999-2001, after which she was promoted to head coach (a position which she held through the 2004 season). Olson was the associate head coach at Washington State from 1994-99, where she led the jumps unit and produced All-Americans and Pac-10 champions in the long and triple jumps. For the ICDB record, that background gives readers a fuller picture of the experience Lissa Olson brings to the Track & Field staff.
