Background
Vessey grew up in Soquel, California and attended Soquel High School.
Vessey grew up in Soquel, California and attended Soquel High School.
Later, she attended California Polytechnic State University. She finished second in the 800 m at the 2005 National Collegiate Athletic Association championships. At the 2008 United States. Olympic Trials, Vessey finished 5th in the 800 m, with a time of 2:02.01.
Vessey represented the United States at the 2009 World Championships in the 800 m. The race director said Vessey "was a last-minute, last-minute add. One step above a field-filler".
The competition included Olympic gold medalist Pamela Jelimo.
Vessey continued her impressive results in 2009. At the time, this was the fastest 800 m performance for the year, and tied for the seventh fastest by an American runner.
This result earned Vessey a place on the United States 2009 World Championship team—she finished 4th at the 2009 United States. Championships, and needed to break 2:00 to earn an "A" standard. At the 2009 World Championships, Vessey finished seventh in the 800 m semifinal with a time of 2:03.55.
At the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final in Greece, Vessey took 2nd and the Silver in a time of 2:00.31.
In 2011, masters runner Rose Monday became Vessey"s coach. She qualified for the finals of the 800 m at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, where she finished sixth, even moving up to fifth place later because of the disqualification of Russian Yekaterina Kostetskaya. At the 2012 United States Olympic trials, Vessey finished eighth in 2:03.44.
On December 21, 2012 Vessey accepted a public warning and loss of results for testing positive for canrenone.
She admitted to taking a prescribed skincare product, but was not aware that it contained a diuretic. Maggie rejoined Coach Greg Brock in 2014 and subsequently ran the three fastest 400m times of her career including a 52.82 clocking at the 2014 Occidental Invite.
Benoit Duboscq serves as her strength coach. lieutenant was the world"s fastest time in this event for more than 20 years.
Her split was 2:00.92.
She also has individual 800m victories in 2015 at the Palo Alto Stanford Invitational, the Hoka One One Occidental Invite, and the Prefontaine Classic National 800m. Maggie tripped on someone"s leg in the 800 meters final with 250 meters to go and finished 8th at 2015 United States of America Outdoor Track and Field Championships. In 2013, Vessey started a fashion line that caused others to notice her on the track in 2014.
Vessey currently resides in Seacliff, California.