Kasandra Vegas

Kasandra Vegas

Personal information
Born	1 March 1991[1]
Sport
Country	Samoa
Sport	Discus throw / Hammer throw
Medal record Women's discus / hammer throw Representing  Samoa Pacific Games 2015 Port Moresby Discus 2015 Port Moresby Hammer throw Oceania Championships 2015 Cairns Hammer throw 2014 Rarotonga Discus 2014 Rarotonga Hammer throw

Kasandra Salamasina Le Tafa’ifa Vegas (born 1 March 1991) is a Samoan American athlete who has represented Samoa at the Pacific Games.

Vegas is from Honolulu, Hawaii, and was educated at Kamehameha High School and Northern Arizona University, where she majored in sports medicine and exercise science.^[2] In 2013 she was named a finalist for the National Collegiate Athletic Association women of the year award.^[3] She later studied for a master's degree in international public health at the University of Sydney in Australia.^[4]

She represented Samoa at the 2014 Oceania Athletics Championships in Rarotonga, winning bronze in both the discus and hammer throw.^[5] She won another bronze at the 2015 championships in Cairns. At the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea she won bronze in both the discus and hammer throw.^[6][7][8] She had hoped to be selected for the Samoan team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,^[9][4][10] but failed to qualify.^[11]

References

1. "Kasandra VEGAS". World Athletics. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
2. "Kasandra Vegas". NAU. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
3. "NAU's Kasandra Vegas a finalist for NCAA Woman of the Year". Fox Sports. 1 August 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
4. "Kasandra's long shot at making Olympics". Samoa Observer. 23 July 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
5. "Hawaii Beat". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. 9 August 2014 – via EBSCOHost.
6. "Athletics: Discus: Female". XV Pacific Games. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
7. "Athletics: Hammer: Female". XV Pacific Games. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
8. "Double clean sweep for host nation rounds off third night of Pacific Games athletics". Loop Samoa. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
9. Ferd Lewis (11 August 2015). "The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Ferd's Words column". Honolulu Star-Advertiser – via EBSCOHost.
10. Pai Mulitalo Ale (13 January 2016). "Trip of special moments". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
11. Deidre Fanene (28 July 2016). "Olympic hopes dashed". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 17 July 2022.