Brittany Hinchliffe enters the 2023-2024 season as an Assistant Track & Field Coach for Evergreen State. The 2006 graduate of University of Oregon will serve as the Throws Coach for the Geoducks.
Prior to joining the Geoducks Brittany coached multiple high school student-athletes to success, including the 2019 4A HS Girls State Champion (Discus), multiple school record holders, and an Olympia High School athlete with a throw of 155’3”. Currently she is coaching a high school hammer group, with athletes continuing to compete at NCAA Division 1 and 2 institutions. Since 2011, Brittany has been a coach with Wounded Warriors, and has coached multiple Wounded Warrior Games and Invictus Games champions in both standing and seated discus and shot put. She was a Team USA Coach for the Invictus Games in 2016 (Orlando) and 2017 (Toronto).
No stranger to success herself, Brittany was mentored and coached by the 1996 Silver Medalist and American Record holder in the Hammer, Lance Deal. As a collegiate student-athlete, Brittany competed for both Washington State University and the University of Oregon, highlighted with placing 12th in 2005 and 3rd in 2006 at the NCAA Championships, helping the 2006 Ducks to an 8th place finish at the NCAA DI National Championships. During her 2006 campaign, she also placed 2nd at West Regionals Championships. Brittany continued her athletic career post-collegiately, qualifying for the 2008 and 2012 US Olympic Trials, as well as the 2007, 2009 and 2011 US Championships. At the Trials and Championships, she finished her highest position of 10th place 3 separate times. She threw the Olympic B standard with a throw of 67.27.
As a prep athlete at Capital High School (Olympia, WA), Brittany placed 2nd in the WIAA State Championships in the Discus and Shot Put her senior year, and was ranked 5th nationally in the Hammer in a state record of 166-9.
Brittany graduated in 2006 with a bachelor's in history, and in 2014 with a Masters in Prevention Science. She hosts personal bests of 47.21 Meters in the Discus and 67.27 Meters in the Hammer, and currently resides in Olympia.
