Bushnell University

Coach Paula Berry began working with the NCU track & field teams as the javelin coach in 2015. She was quickly promoted to oversee all throws events beginning in the 2017 season. 

An Olympic thrower, Berry has been a private coach and high school assistant since 2001. This included a stint with the US Junior Nationals as the javelin coordinator. 

Berry, a Dayville, Ore. native, competed collegiately for the University of Oregon where she was the NCAA champion in the javelin in 1991, a year after claiming runner-up honors in 1990. Later her senior season, she earned a berth on the U.S. squad for the World Championships (16th, 190-1), followed by an Olympic berth in 1992 and a threw of 160-9 in the Barcelona-hosted event.

Berry graduated from Oregon in 1992 with a bachelors degree in psychology. 

Ten years later, the two-time conference winner still owned the Pac-10 javelin record (202-1, 61.60m) as well as the Pac-10 Championships record (193-8, 59.04m) with throws from 1991. On all-time lists, her collegiate and career best of 202-8 ranks second all-time for Oregon, fifth among all collegians and eighth all-time among Americans. She was inducted into the University of Oregon Hall of Fame in 2003. 

The Dayville High School graduate arrived in Eugene after a prep All-America career that included four state titles, trips to the 1987 and ‘88 World Junior Championships following first- and second-place TAC junior championships finishes. She was ranked as the 10th-best prep ever.

Berry lives in Eugene where she works as a development associate with St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County.