Bio

Associate Head Coach:

Calixte Aholu,

Coach Aholu is in his second season coaching the RAMS (Fresno City college) track and field as an associate head coach for sprints and relays.

In his first season at FCC, Aholu has coached the RAMS men's and women's sprinters post some impressive marks.  His work with the sprinters was especially impressive as Kurt Kobzeff and Keyon Beta both qualified to North California Trials in 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.

Prior to his arrival at FCC Coach Aholu spent seven seasons (2007-13) at Clovis North High School as Assistant Track and Field Coach, and six seasons (2011-18) as assistant Cross-Country coach.  Aholu was the sprints coach and strength and conditioning coach for the Broncos team. During his time, he built the program into one of the top rank programs in the Valley.

In his six of Track and Field season, he has helped guide Broncos to several CMAC, TRAC, and C.I.F North titles, set Multiple school records for both men and women teams. In 2012 he coached Mikaela Smith to the TRAC in 200m and Alesia Francis in 400m title. At the C.I.F North Area women's 400m Mikaela Smith won her first title as a freshman clocking 55.34 and was qualified to the State meet in 400m. In the Broncos men side, he coached Robby Towne to the valley championship Men's 400m. At the time, Towne ran the fastest 400m time ever by a Brancos man of 49.76 and set the school record.

In 2011, He led the Broncos girls to the TRAC to claim the title in 4x400 Relay (Rivera, VonBerg, Nakamura, Schmidt)

In 2010, Aholu coached Alesia Francis to the C.I.F North Area women's 400m title clocking 58.13 and set the school record and at the CMAC that year Sharessa Archie claimed 200m title and set the school record at 25.81.

In 2009, Aholu has helped guide the Girls Broncos to Div-2 Champions, and C.I.F Champions. His Broncos athletes have also claimed individual titles Alesia Francis 400m, 4x100 Relay (S.Archie,C.Archie, Gabourel, Francis), and 4x400 Relay (S.Archie, Nakamura, Gabourel, Francis.) and set multiple school records.

During his six seasons as assistant Cross-Country Coach, Aholu has helped guide the Broncos program to many titles. He had great success with the Broncos Cross-Country teams. He has helped girls’ team to win two TRAC titles, 2011 and 2013. Three Central Section Valley titles 2011, 2014, and 2015.  He has assisted guide the Girls Team to State Championships in 2011, 15^th in 2012, 5^th in 2013, 4^th in 2014.  Individually, he has helped Leigh Moffett in 2013, and Lauren Moffett in 2015 to the League title, and Leigh Moffett to 12^th in 2012, 5^th 2013, Lauren Moffett 8^th 2014 to the top 20 at State Championships.

The boys’ program was successful and finished in the top 20 in 2012, in the top 10 in 2013, 2014 and 2018 at the State Championships. The boys’ team also won the TRAC title in 2013, and 2014. HE has helped guide Connor Nolen in 2013, Psalm Ocampo 2014 and Isaiah Galindo in 2018 to the individual League title.

Aholu, who came to US was specialized in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, Long-jump and trained at the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance (INSEP) in France. He earned his bachelor's degree and his master's degree in Kinesiology/exercise science at California State University, Fresno. He also earned his bachelor’s degree in Science and Technology (IT) from Paris, France where in ran track and field for many clubs (CAM 93, EA Franconville, ….), He is also level 1 certified.

 Aholu was a two-time Olympian, 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, Aholu ran the first leg in the 4x100 meter relay and clocking 39.78 in the semifinal to finish 13^th place overall. In the 1995 Francophonies Games in Paris, Aholu ran the 4x100 meters whom finished in the 4^th place. He also competed at the 1995 World Championships in Goteborg, Sweden.