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Pasca Jerono
Pasca Jerono (née Cheptanui Cheruiyot; formerly Pasca Myers, born July 27, 1986) is a Kenyan-born American middle- and long-distance runner best known for winning the 2014 Grandma's Marathon in 2:33:45.
Myers grew up in Marakwet District, Kenya. Like other freshmen in her high school, she was required to run during her first semester. Sally Kipyego was also at the school, and the two both competed through the regionals and into the province races (one step below nationals) in Kenya.
After college scouts spotted her, she traveled to attend college in the US. Finances kept her from attending an NCAA D-I school, so she began college at Rend Lake College in Ina, Illinois, in 2007. The small school, part of the NJCAA D-II Great Rivers Athletic Conference had been a starting point for other Kenyan distance runners such as Kipyego and Stephen Sambu.
Myers did well on the Lady Warriors track team. She placed second in the 10,000-meters and third in the 5,000- and 1,500-meter events in the 2007 NJCAA D-I Outdoor Track and Field championships. A few months later though, in fall 2008, she outpaced a packed group of strong runners to win the Rend Lake-hosted NJCAA Cross-Country Championships. Her time of 16:12.99 smashed the D-II record and set a new D-I record that (as of February 2022) still stands.
She continued dominating the junior college competition, placing in multiple races all the way to the NJCAA D-I Indoor Track and Field national championships where she took first in the 5,000- and 10,000-meters. She longed to run at a higher level, which eventually took her to Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.
As a Seminole, she led her team (along with Pilar McShine) to two second-place finishes at the 2009 and 2010 NCAA D-I Cross Country Championships.
In 2011, she beat Esther Erb and Serkalem Biset Abrha to win the storied Litchfield Hills Road Race. She ran her first half marathon at the News and Sentinel Half, beating out Ramilya Burangulova, but losing the lead pack (which included Moroccan Malika Mejdoub and Ethiopian Yihunlish Delelecha) and finishing ninth. Later in the year, she paced with Lyubov Denisova and Kim Pawelek Brantly but ran away to win the Marine Corps Half Marathon.
In 2013, she was a top finisher at the Fifth Third River Bank 25K and the Hy-Vee Road Races Half Marathon, where she edged Alevtina Ivanova and finished just behind IAAF World Championship competitor Hannah Wanjiru.
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Pasca Jerono
Pasca Jerono (née Cheptanui Cheruiyot; formerly Pasca Myers, born July 27, 1986) is a Kenyan-born American middle- and long-distance runner best known for winning the 2014 Grandma's Marathon in 2:33:45.
Myers grew up in Marakwet District, Kenya. Like other freshmen in her high school, she was required to run during her first semester. Sally Kipyego was also at the school, and the two both competed through the regionals and into the province races (one step below nationals) in Kenya.
After college scouts spotted her, she traveled to attend college in the US. Finances kept her from attending an NCAA D-I school, so she began college at Rend Lake College in Ina, Illinois, in 2007. The small school, part of the NJCAA D-II Great Rivers Athletic Conference had been a starting point for other Kenyan distance runners such as Kipyego and Stephen Sambu.
Myers did well on the Lady Warriors track team. She placed second in the 10,000-meters and third in the 5,000- and 1,500-meter events in the 2007 NJCAA D-I Outdoor Track and Field championships. A few months later though, in fall 2008, she outpaced a packed group of strong runners to win the Rend Lake-hosted NJCAA Cross-Country Championships. Her time of 16:12.99 smashed the D-II record and set a new D-I record that (as of February 2022) still stands.
She continued dominating the junior college competition, placing in multiple races all the way to the NJCAA D-I Indoor Track and Field national championships where she took first in the 5,000- and 10,000-meters. She longed to run at a higher level, which eventually took her to Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.
As a Seminole, she led her team (along with Pilar McShine) to two second-place finishes at the 2009 and 2010 NCAA D-I Cross Country Championships.
In 2011, she beat Esther Erb and Serkalem Biset Abrha to win the storied Litchfield Hills Road Race. She ran her first half marathon at the News and Sentinel Half, beating out Ramilya Burangulova, but losing the lead pack (which included Moroccan Malika Mejdoub and Ethiopian Yihunlish Delelecha) and finishing ninth. Later in the year, she paced with Lyubov Denisova and Kim Pawelek Brantly but ran away to win the Marine Corps Half Marathon.
In 2013, she was a top finisher at the Fifth Third River Bank 25K and the Hy-Vee Road Races Half Marathon, where she edged Alevtina Ivanova and finished just behind IAAF World Championship competitor Hannah Wanjiru.