Education
Stanford University; Brigham Young University.
Stanford University; Brigham Young University.
She competed at the 2012 and 2008 Beijing Olympics and has represented the United States both indoor and outdoors at World Championship-level She took back-to-back titles in the shot put at the Pan American Junior Championships in 1999 and 2001. Born in Woodland, California, she is listed at 5 foot 10 inches tall and 250 lbs.
She did her undergraduate work at Stanford University and graduate studies at Brigham Young University.
She is a Latter-day Saint. Camarena-Williams married her physiotherapist, Dustin Williams, in 2010.
In October 2013, Camarena-Williams was hit with a six-month suspension from the United States Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for clomiphene. The substance was discovered in an out-of-competition test conducted on July 1.
The punishment was implemented retrospectively, meaning she was cleared to compete again on January 1, 2014.