Lacy Barnes (born December 23, 1964, in

Ridgecrest, California Ridgecrest is a city in Kern County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 395 in California, U.S. Route 395 in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS, or China Lake) ...

) is a former track and field athlete. She was the United States women's

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

track and field champion in 1988 and 1991 and the top U.S. finisher in the

1996 Atlanta Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

. Barnes studied at

California State University, Fresno California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) is a public university in Fresno, California, United States. It is part of the California State University system. The university had a fall 2020 enrollment of 25,341 students. It offers 60 ba ...

, competing for the track team. Barnes earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Claremont Graduate University in 2010. In 2000, she was inducted into the

Fresno County Athletic Hall of Fame Fresno (; ) is a city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region. It covers about and had a population of 542,107 as of the 2020 c ...

. She resides in

Fresno County Fresno County (), officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 1,008,654. The county seat is Fresno, the fifth-most populo ...

and is a psychology professor at

Madera Community College Madera Community College, established in 2020, is a community college located in Madera, California Madera (Spanish language, Spanish for "Lumber") is a city in and the county seat of Madera County, California, Madera County, located in the ...

Madera, California Madera (Spanish language, Spanish for "Lumber") is a city in and the county seat of Madera County, California, Madera County, located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Founded in 1876 as a timber town at the terminus of a major logging f ...

. Barnes married

Matthew Mileham Matthew David Mileham (born 27 December 1956]) is a British retired hammer thrower. He represented Great Britain at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in Los Angeles in 1984 and the 1988 Summer Olympics. Biography Mileham finished sec ...

, a fellow Fresno State track team member who competed in the hammer throw for Great Britain in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics. She divorced Mileham in October 2009, and remarried in November of 2013 to architect and sculptor Marvin Armstrong.

International competitions

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* * * 1964 births Living people Track and field athletes from California People from Ridgecrest, California Sportspeople from Kern County, California American female discus throwers Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States Fresno State Bulldogs women's track and field athletes Sportspeople from Fresno County, California Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field) 20th-century American sportswomen {{US-discusthrow-athletics-bio-stub