Trish was on the 1988 U.S. Olympic team in the high jump and it's where she met her husband, Pat Porter, two times U.S. Olympian in the 10,000 meters. She retired from competing because of a neck injury. Two children Connor, 10, and Shannon, 6, and eleven years later she rekindled her dream and is competing on the masters National and International level. She is the current world record holder, 5' 9 ΒΌ", for the high jump age 40-44 years. She has broken her own world record four times. She has won four World Masters Championhips,and has won the U.S. National Masters Championships nine times. One of her strengths is working with the media and generating publicity via television, newspaper and/or radio. She has a B.S. from University of Oregon.
Current: Her non-fiction book "Rekindle Your Dreams" was just released by Bridge-Logos. It encourages women and gives them the tools to successfully live their dream. There are many women who are not living their passion because they don't know how or think it's impossible.She encourages them to revive their dream by giving them the tools and practical steps to help overcome the excuses encountered along the way. She also includes other women who are successfully living their passion.
She has had an article published on CBN.Com and in MomSense Magazine which was then selected to represent MomSense in the Woman Inspirational category for CTI's 50th Anniversary Celebration. She was a contributor to The Olympian E-Newsletter Magazine, and the book But Lord I was Happy Shallow by Marita Littauer. She also endorsed Standing Up for Your Child without Stepping on Toes by Focus on the Family author, Vicki Caruana.
