On a day when the first sun of the new season returned to Cardon Field in Camas, so did Seanna Pitassi. But, instead of blistering the track as the team’s top sprinter like she did eight years ago, Pitassi now leads the entire team’s charge as the new head girls track coach for Camas High School.
After graduating from CHS, Pitassi went on to a successful collegiate track and field career at Central Washington University. For the past three years, she has been a teacher and assistant track coach at Heritage High School.
“It’s like a dream really, I couldn’t believe it when I got the call offering me the job,” Pitassi says. That call came from former Camas head track coach Alisa Wise, who decided it was time to retire after 20 years to focus on her three grandchildren and train top triathletes in her free time.
“Seanna has a passion for track and field and for kids, and when I watched her coach at Heritage, her passion for the sport and the kids was obvious,” Wise explains.
Wis says she started hinting to Camas administrators that Pitassi would make a great track coach and it wasn’t too long before she got approval to make that call.