Jan Palchikoff

Jan Palchikoff is a multi-sport athlete born in Culver City, California. She is a world-record holding cyclist in the master's division where she currently competes, and an Olympian who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics in rowing—finishing fifth in double skulls. She was also selected for the boycotted 1980 Olympic Team that was supposed to compete in Moscow, USSR. She rowed for UCLA and then earned her master's degree in Sports Management from the University of Massachusetts.

Palchikoff has also served as anexecutive in a number of sports and athletics related organizations, including the Special Olympic World Games (2015), FIFA World Cup (1994) and World Rowing Championships. Palchikoff was named to the Pac-12 Conference'sAll-Century team in Women's Rowing. She was also elected into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015.