Inducted 2024

Anna Jelmini is considered one of the best, if not, the best female thrower in California high school history.
On May 13, 2009, Jelmini set the national high school record with a toss of 190 feet, 3 inches in the discus for Shafter, breaking the record previously held by Suzy Powell in 1995.She also threw 54 feet, 4 3/4 inches in the shot put, becoming the first male or female high school athlete to be ranked in the top-10 nationally in two events.

The four-time state champion (twice in each event in 2008-09) also won the Jim Tyack Award in 2009 and was named the 2008-09 Girls National Gatorade Track and Field Player of the Year.

Anna was also named the Track and Field News High School Girls Athlete of the Year in 2009.
Anna was the 2008-09 USA Junior National Discus Champion and the 2009 USA Junior National Shot Put Champion and won gold at the 2009 Pan American Junior Games in the shot put and won silver in the discus. In 2010,at the NACAC U23, she took silver in the shot put and competed in the USATF Outdoor Track and Field Senior National Championships from 2008-17.

After high school, she attended Arizona State on scholarship where she an NCAA runner-up in the discus in 2011-12, and a three-time USA Olympic Trials competitor.

In 2011, she was named the USTAFCCA Division I West Region Women’s Field Athlete of the Year and was the 2014 Arizona State Pitchfork Award Recipient as the outstanding student-athlete.

In 2013-14, she was named the Arizona State most outstanding female student-athlete of the year.
She finished her career with a career-best mark of 199-7 in the discus and 57-10 in the shot put when she retired in 2017 after competing professionally for Altis in Scottsdale and with Sale Harries Manchester in the United Kingdom.