Billie Patricia "Pat" Daniels (in first marriage Winslow, in second marriage Bank, in third marriage Connolly; born September 1, 1943) is a retired female

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and track and field coach from the United States, who was the U.S. track and field national champion in the 800 m in 1960 and 1961 and in the pentathlon from 1961 to 1967 and in 1970. She was national long jump champion in 1967. She won the gold medal in the pentathlon at the

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, Canada. A three-time Olympian (1960, 1964, 1968), she placed seventh in 1964 and sixth in 1968. She first represented the US in 1960, running just five days after her 17th birthday, days before beginning her senior year at

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. She was the first coach of the women's track and field team at the

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, which she led to

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national championships in 1975 and 1977. In 1983, she coached UCLA alumna

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to a world record in the women's 100 m, set in

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. In 1984, she coached Ashford to gold medals in the women's

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and

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at the

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in Los Angeles and later that year to a new world record in the 100 m of 10.76 seconds, set in Zurich. She became head men's and women's track and field coach at

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in 1998 and was named

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Coach of the Year in 2001 before retiring the following year. In 2004, she came out of retirement to coach Allyson Felix to a silver medal and world junior record in the women's 200 m at the

in Athens. In 1989 she testified before a Senate hearing on steroid abuse chaired by Senator Joseph Biden. She has published numerous articles in publications, including ''

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'', on the subject of performance-enhancing drugs. She is author of ''Coaching Evelyn: Fast, Faster, Fastest Woman in the World''. She was married to American hammer thrower and Olympian Hal Connolly until his death in 2010. In 2010, she was inducted into the African-American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame. Also, starting in 2010, she began coaching for

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. She helped coach the Greyhounds to championships in the MIAA for both indoor and outdoor track and field.

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