Jen Mathe was hired as CMU’s Head Triathlon Coach, beginning her duties on Oct. 1, 2022.
In her first meet after joining the time a few weeks into the season, Mathe led the Mavs to their fourth straight regional title, weeks before the Mavs matched their program best with a second place finish at the Women's Collegiate Triathlon National Championships in Tempe, Arizona. All seven Mavs earned CTCA All-America honors while six Mavs picked up all-region honors.
The Mavs also received the CTCA/USA Triathlon Team Scholar All-American award and had five first team and six overall scholar All-America individuals in her first year.
The Mavericks' success continued in 2023 as they won their fifth straight regional title before placing third at the national championships. They had four CTCA All-America performances and three all-region efforts as Shannon Feran won the individual regional title. They Mavs also continued to get the job done in the classroom, once again earning the CTCA/USA Triathlon Team Scholar All-American award while crowning four more overall scholar All-America individuals.
Coming to CMU and Colorado from the Sacramento, California area, Mathe has 20 years of triathlon coaching experience and founded One10 Performance in 2011, providing coaching services to age-group triathletes throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
In her time as the Owner of One10 Performance, Mathe has had unquestioned success, with one hundred percent of her age-group athletes having set a personal-record within their first year of working with her. She has also coached numerous triathletes, who have competed in the USA Triathlon National Championships, the ITU/World Triathlon World Championships and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships while many others have achieved their various personal goals.
Mathe is also a Certified Athletic Trainer and Strength & Conditioning Coach. She grew up as a gymnast and coached the sport for 15 years including serving as the strength and conditioning coach for the City of Davis (California) Gymnastic Program from 1995-2004. She was a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Arkansas State University in 2000-01 before moving back home to the Sacramento area, where she served as the athletic trainer at Natomas High School in 2001-02 and as an athletic training intern for the WNBA’s Sacramento Monarchs in 2002-03.
She completed her bachelor’s degree in exercise science with an emphasis in physiology from UC-Davis in 1999, where she also competed in springboard diving as part of the NCAA Division II swimming and diving program, and her master’s degree in kinesiology/sport performance from Cal State Sacramento in 2005.
Mathe also holds a variety of coaching and sport-related certifications and is a:
- USA Triathlon Level II Certified Coach
- IRONMAN Certified Coach
- USA Cycling Level II Certified Coach
- USA Track & Field Certified Coach
- RRCA (Road Runners Club of America) Certified Running Coach
- ASCA (American Swim Coaches Association) Certified Swimming Coach
- NSCA (National Strength & Conditioning Association) Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist
- NATA (National Athletic Training Association) Certified Athletic Trainer
She is also an accomplished triathlete, having personally representing Team USA five times at the ITU Long Distance World Championships, finishing as high as 10th at the 2016 Oklahoma ITU Long Distance Championships . She is set to compete in her fourth IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships in New Zealand in December, 2024 and has raced at numerous Olympic distance national championships.
She and her husband Josh have two dogs. Josh is also a coach and nutritionist and is an ultra-distance runner.
Outside of triathlon, Mathe races cyclocross events and enjoys other outdoor activities such as paddleboarding and hiking, making the Grand Valley and Western Colorado an ideal home.
