Meet The Athletes
Jackson is a 70.3 specialist who has earned the respect of fans and peers as one of the best all arounders on the circuit. He is a threat to win every time he toes the line, with 2 Ironman 70.3 Victories and 10 podiums since 2018 alone.
Despite a serious bike crash at the 2019 Ironman 70.3 World Championship, requiring 2 surgeries, he has returned to form with a win and a 70.3 podium in 2020.
Jackson has gained a substantial following from consistently producing quality training, racing, and lifestyle content on his social media. He has upped his game in 2020, becoming a co-host of The Real Triathlon Podcast, and co-race directing the inaugural Canadian Pro Triathlon Championship.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2023
3rd - IRONMAN 70.3 Oceanside
3rd - IRONMAN 70.3 North American Championship
3rd - IRONMAN 70.3 Gulf Coast
1st - IRONMAN 70.3 Michigan
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Augusta
5th - IRONMAN 70.3 Indian Wells
2nd - Challenge Salinas
2022
1st - IRONMAN 70.3 Oceanside
4th - IRONMAN 70.3 Chattanooga
3rd - IRONMAN 70.3 Mont Tremblant
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Indian Wells
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2021
24th - PTO 2020 Championships Daytona
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Campeche
1st - Stage 2 of Super League E-Series
1st - Canadian Pro Tri Championship
2019
1st - IRONMAN 70.3 Mont Tremblant
3rd - IRONMAN 70.3 St. George, NA Champs
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Chattanooga
Run CR- IRONMAN 70.3 Santa Rosa
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Perseverance and resilience are hallmarks of Tamara Jewett's engagement with elite sport. She switched from high-performance middle distance track to triathlon part way through 2017 when a bad plantar fascia tear kept her from running for 18 months. She went pro in 2019, making her first podium at the 70.3 South American Championship in Buenos Aires despite breaking her collarbone earlier in the season.
Tamara is known for blasting through the field with her impressive run splits. Although he doesn't love to admit it, she's even been known to outperform RTS teammate Jackson Laundry on the run split of a triathlon now and then. In 2021, she ran her way to the win at 70.3 Timberman and to strong second place finishes at 70.3 Augusta and 70.3 Indian Wells-La Quinta. Tamara is laser focused for 2022 on continuing progress in the swim and bike to support her strong run.
Tamara enjoys opportunities to share her hard-won insights from her athletic journey. She has particularly enjoyed mentoring other female athletes formally and informally as a volunteer coach with the University of Toronto Track Program, through ongoing connections to the University of Toronto track team, mentorship programs for students at her former highschool and involvement with two triathlon clubs in the Greater Toronto Area.
In her non-athletic life, Tamara practices corporate tax law part-time at Torys LLP in Toronto. In her moments of spare time she loves reading, live theater and delicious food.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2023
1st - IRONMAN 70.3 Oceanside
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Aix en Provence
1st - IRONMAN 70.3 Michigan
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Augusta
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Indian Wells
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2022
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Indian Wells
1st - IRONMAN 70.3 Mont Tremblant
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Eagleman
9th - IRONMAN 70.3 Chattanooga
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2021
Indian Wells 70.3 - 2nd place
Timberman 70.3 - 1st place
Boulder 70.3 - 5th place
Augusta 70.3 - 2nd place
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Marc grew up a swimmer and runner in Dekalb, Illinois. He got his first taste of triathlon during a few local competitions but was hooked after his first season in the Junior Elite Draft legal series. Marc continued his focus on being the best runner he could be by heading to the University of Missouri to run cross country and track but he always knew he wanted to come back to the triathlon scene. While at Mizzou, Marc earn All-SEC athletic honors and posted an all-time top 3000m performance in school history. Due to a few running related injuries, he was able to keep swimming.
After graduating in 2018, Marc went all in on his dream of representing the U.S. at the highest levels of triathlon. He was awarded the 2019 USAT Elite Rookie of the Year after his first professional season and has continued to improve his World Triathlon Ranking year by year. He has recently dabbled in non-draft triathlon and now has four Ironman 70.3 podiums to his name.
Outside of triathlon, you can find him flipping a giant pancake, relaxing to some David Attenborough documentaries, and growing as a coffee aficionado.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2023
3rd - IRONMAN 70.3 Pucon
1st - Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon
4th - IRONMAN 70.3 Oregon
8th (1st American) - IRONMAN 70.3 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Los Cabos
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Indian Wells
1st - Challenge Salinas
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2022
22nd - IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship
3rd Americas Triathlon Cup Vina Del Mar
3rd - IRONMAN 70.3 Cozumel
4th - Americas Triathlon Cup Villarica
8th - St. Anthony's Triathlon
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2021
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Maine
3rd - IRONMAN 70.3 Memphis
7th - Americas Triathlon Champs
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2019 Triathlon Elite Rookie of the Year
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With a D1 Collegiate Running background, (Go Bucknell Bison!) Nicole started triathlon in 2013 since living in Manhattan at the time wasn’t exciting enough. She turned pro in 2018 and has since climbed the ranks of the pro field, finishing just outside the PTO Top 100 the past two years. While she lives in Portsmouth, NH now, she still kept her full time NYC job on the Digital Team at Citi. She is coached by Julie Dibens and is also a Rise & Tri mentor. In the 12 minutes that Nicole is not working or doing something triathlon related, she’s baking cookies to fuel her training or writing snail mail to friends. Nicole hopes to crack the top 100 this year (she said that last year), race in Europe (again), and feel the RTS energy during as many races as possible!
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2023
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3rd - IRONMAN 70.3 MAINE
5th - IRONMAN 70.3 Los Cabos
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Nick Chase brings the whole package as an athlete, content creator, coach, “The Real Triathlon Podcast” co-host, and savvy sports business man. Nick is a cut above the rest when it comes to creating high quality content,, his sponsors can hardly keep up with all the promotion he provides.
On the race course, he consistently produces world class swim-bike performances, leading off the bike or close to it every time he competes.
His 3rd place finish at Ironman Chattanooga in 2019 was a hint at what’s to come as he improves in leaps and bounds year after year. Don’t be surprised if you see Nick Chase on the podium in late 2020 and 2021 races.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2023
4th - IRONMAN 70.3 Ecuador
8th - IRONMAN 70.3 Los Cabos
4th - Challenge Salinas
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2022
3rd - CLASH Watkins Glenn
5th - IRONMAN 70.3 Mont Tremblant
11th - IRONMAN 70.3 Chattanooga
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2021
10th - Clash Daytona
5th Place - 70.3 Cozumel
2nd Place - 70.3 Ecuador
22nd Place - IM 70.3 World Championship
9th Place - 70.3 Des Moines
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2020
Great Floridian Triathlon - 5th
IM VR20 PRO Challenge Winner
1st off the bike 70.3 Campeche
Organized First Pro Race in North America After COVID-19 shutdowns.
2019
3rd - IRONMAN Chattanooga
5th - IRONMAN 70.3 Los Cabos
5th - St. Anthony’s Triathlon
7th - IRONMAN 70.3 Shanghai
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Lesley Smith is a professional triathlete and coach currently residing in the triathlon rich community of Boulder, Colorado. She was born in Iowa City, Iowa and grew up participating in various sports, though in high school she found exceptional success as a distance runner. She then competed on the track and cross country team at the University of Missouri for two years and earned a Bachelor of Journalism. After a lengthy break from endurance sports while based in Austin, Texas working in the event management industry, she joined a triathlon group and the sport has been a part of her life ever since.
Lesley's move to Boulder in 2014 was a catalyst for a higher level of commitment as a professional triathlete, and while consistently competing at the top level of long-course/non-draft racing, she has posted 17 podium finishes in the past six seasons. In the fall of 2017 she made her 140.6 distance debut, and in both 2018 and 2019 she qualified for the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii.
Through coaching age group triathletes, she is able to share with others the positive impact an active lifestyle has had in her life.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2023
4th - IRONMAN 70.3 Boulder
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Oregon
4th - IRONMAN 70.3 Indian Wells
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2022
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Boulder
3rd - CLASH Watkins Glenn
4th - IRONMAN 70.3 Chattanooga
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2020
22nd - PTO 2020 Championship Daytona
2019
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Texas
2nd - IRONMAN Boulder
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Boulder
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Xiamen
2018
2nd - IRONMAN 70.3 Taiwan
3rd - IRONMAN North American Champs Texas
3rd - IRONMAN 70.3 Boulder
5th - IRONMAN Arizona
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Garrick Loewen is the embodiment of grit. Despite countless reasons “real life” has gotten in the way, he has improved his triathlon performances each year, earning his place as a legit contender in long course.
Don’t be fooled by his busy full time course load as a Masters of Prosthetics and Orthotics student at Eastern Michigan University, he finds a way to be among the best with content creation and self promotion, gaining over 16 thousand followers on instagram. He also founded and co-hosts The Real Triathlon Podcast.
He is the young gun of the squad at 25, but has no shortage of experience, having raced at a pro level in ITU, non-drafting olympic distance, and now 70.3.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2019
1st - Multisport Canada Rose City Long Course Triathlon (Course Record)
1st - Grand Rapids Olympic Triathlon (Overall and Bike Course Record)
8th - Waco 70.3
2018
3rd - Massy Rainbow Cup International Olympic Triathlon
10th - Escape From Alcatraz Triathlon
Canadian National World University Championship Team Captain
2017
7th - Escape Triathlon Pro Ranking
3rd - Nations Escape Triathlon series
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2023
Fastest Bike Split - St. Anthony's Triathlon & 3rd place
Fastest Bike Split - IRONMAN 70.3 Oregon
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2021
11th - Challenge Miami
8th - Texas 70.3
7th - Florida 70.3
9th - Des Moines 70.3
6th - Timberman 70.3
21st 70.3 - World Championships
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2020
5th - Huntington Triathlon (fastest bike)
2nd - The Great Floridian Triathlon (fastest bike)
34th - PTO Championships
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Lisa grew up in Northbrook, Illinois, before heading to college at DePauw University to run cross country and track. After college, she spent five and a half years coaching Collegiate cross country and Track and Field at Illinois, Wesleyan University.
While coaching she helped capture a team NCAA National
Championship and coached 2 individual National Champions and 9 All-Americans. In her coaching years, Lisa discovered triathlon and fell in love with the process of improvement.
In December 2017, Lisa left a job she loved and moved to Boulder, Colorado to chase her dream of competing as a professional triathlete. After an injury setback in 2019, and surgery in early 2020, Lisa has started to climb the rankings.
She is on a mission to make the most of her years as a competitive athlete and hopes to inspire others to take chances, go all-in on their dreams, and most importantly have the time of their life creating meaningful relationships with the community!