Arizona Triathlon head coach Wes Johnson appointed Jocelyn Bonney as the program’s first ever assistant coach in March of 2023. Bonney was a pioneer student-athlete in triathlon and a national champion at Queens University (NC) before competing and coaching professionally. She joined the staff of Arizona’s newest program ahead of its first official competition in Fall of 2023.
Bonney was instrumental in Arizona’s highly-successful inaugural season in 2023 that ended with a top-five finish at the Collegiate Triathlon National Championships. The Wildcats had a trio of student-athletes in Laura Holánszky, Lydia Russell and Dana Prikrylová all receiving All-American honors from the College Triathlon Coaches Association. The Wildcats were extremely competitive as a program from their first race of the season, a duathlon versus defending national champions Arizona State, and they continued to develop through an abbreviated season to finish among the best programs in the country by season’s end.
In her second season at Arizona, Bonney helped guide the Wildcats to the program's first national championship at the 2024 Women's Collegiate Triathlon National Championships in Clermont, Florida. Junior Kelly Wetteland led Arizona with a second-place individual finish, while freshman Margareta Vráblová crossed the line third overall. Junior Molly Lakustiak placed sixth and sophomore Dana Prikrylova finished ninth, giving Arizona four athletes in the top 10 — and all seven Wildcats who competed finished in the top 25. Arizona scored 942 points to claim the title, making it the 23rd national championship in Arizona Athletics history and the first since the women's golf team won in 2018. The program's in-season dominance was equally impressive, as the Wildcats captured first place at the Battle in the Fort in Fort Worth, Texas — the program's first-ever team event victory — defeating five top 20 CTCA-ranked universities.
Bonney helped the program repeat as national champions in 2025, cementing Arizona's status as the standard-bearer of collegiate triathlon. At the 2025 Women's Collegiate Triathlon National Championships in Tempe, Arizona, the Wildcats successfully defended their title with a dominant team performance that placed five athletes in the top 10. Kelly Wetteland claimed the individual national title, improving on her runner-up finish from the previous year, while Ellison Wolfe (7th), Mia Wentzy (8th) and Ruth Pardy (10th) rounded out Arizona's historic showing. In just its third season of competition, the program had won back-to-back national championships and established itself as a model for the sport's growth at the collegiate level. Wetteland was recognized beyond the triathlon course as well, earning Arizona Athletics' Ruby Award as the university's top female athlete for the 2024-25 academic year.
A trailblazing student-athlete at Queens University, Bonney was one of the first women in the nation to earn a triathlon scholarship and was the first individual triathlon national champion in NCAA history. She also helped guide the Royals to a pair of NCAA Division II team national championships.
Bonney was also an elite international triathlon competitor, beginning at age 17 in the International Triathlon Union World Circuit. Her professional experience also includes coaching as the Junior Elite Team Head Coach for Balanced Art Multisport. The Southern California native has also served as guide for USA Paratriathlon’s visually-impaired triathlon team in preparation for the 2024 Paralympic Games in France.
Bonney holds USA Triathlon certifications as a Race Director as well as a Level One Educational Coach. She earned her undergraduate degree in Nutritional Sciences from Arizona State after completing her NCAA eligibility at Queens University in North Carolina.
