About Us
Our mission is simple: make it easier (and way more fun) to be a track fan.
Part commentary and analysis, part media personalities and storytellers— we share content across social, video, podcasts, articles, and newsletters to keep you connected to your favorite sport. Because just like you, we love track and field. And by creating accessible and entertaining ways to follow the sport and its athletes, we believe even more people will fall in love with it, too.
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Meet The Team Behind Citius

Our Team
Chris Chavez loves track & field. That’s why he launched CITIUS MAG as a passion project in 2016 while writing and editing full-time for Sports Illustrated. Over the ensuing five years, Chris got to cover the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, honed his reporting chops, and grew a humble blog into a slightly less humble multi-pronged media company. In 2021, he made CITIUS MAG his full-time pursuit.
Prior to his six-year stint at SI – like so many born-and-raised teenage New Yorkers – Chris heeded the siren song of the American hinterland and headed to Milwaukee to attend Marquette University. As an undergrad, the baby-faced media personality worked for both ESPN and Sporting News, and interned for Flotrack.
Chris has completed all six of the World Marathon Majors and finally broke five minutes for the mile on Feb. 15th after a more than decade-long quest.
Mac, who possesses one of the best runner names of his generation, lived up to the billing as a two-time NCAA 1500m champion and eight-time All-American as an Oregon Duck. He went on to run professionally for seven years, and after a “Terrelle Pryor-type career – a college stud but underwhelming NFL backup who sort of hung around” – Mac dabbled in coaching before joining CITIUS in 2022 and taking over the rapidly growing video side of the operation.
San Diego-born and raised, he has returned to the promised land – if San Diego was your hometown, wouldn’t you, too? – where he soaks up the perfect weather and hates on New York with his wife and pet pig.
Since David began contributing to CITIUS in 2018, he's done a little bit of everything, from podcast hosting to newsletter writing to race commentary. Currently, he coordinates the social media team and manages both the CITIUS MAG newsletter and The Lap Count, supplying hot takes and thoughtful analysis in both short- and long-form.
Based on Boston, David breaks up his excessive screen time by training for marathons, crewing trail races, baking sweet desserts, and mixing strong cocktails.
Father. Husband. Son. Newsletter writer. Friend. 3:52 miler. Bridge and tunnel guy. Businessman. World record holder (okay… in the DMR). Prolific poster. Kyle Merber is many things. And as of 2021, he became Chris’s partner in all things CITIUS, too.
From a preposterously early age, Kyle has lived and breathed track & field. Not just as a fan, but as an elite athlete ascending from the high school, to college, to professional ranks. After hanging up his spikes – but never his running shoes – Kyle pivoted to the media side of things, where he shares his enthusiasm, insights, and experiences with subscribers of The Lap Count newsletter, as well as viewers of CITIUS MAG live shows.
When not serving up track & field takes, you can probably find Kyle taking a Strava crown on a Westchester County bike path, playing with his daughter Laoise, or watching obscure Irish sports on television that even his wife, Patricia – who is Irish – doesn’t follow closely.
Jasmine works behind the scenes across many parts of CITIUS MAG, including producing the CITIUS MAG Podcast, creating graphics and social media content, managing our website and newsletters, supporting company operations, shooting photos, writing articles, and taking on the occasional interview. She joined the team in 2023 after earning her Master’s degree from the University of Tennessee. Away from the laptop, she’s busy training toward big goals on the track and roads.
Audrey heard through the grapevine that one time Chris Chavez called her a “five-tool player.” She might not be keen on baseball terminology but she does know track and field, given that she was able to string together about one season’s worth of eligibility as an athlete for four years at UCLA. She’s afraid to admit how many bone injuries it took to get her behind the camera instead, but now she’s full send on all things photo, video, graphics, socials and writing for CITIUS. The world will never know if she’s really getting her graduate degree in communications from UF to move across the country to be with her boyfriend, Paulie Throws, or for her job as the creative video-gator for the team. In the end, this is all a plot to become the next Mac Fleet.
Believe it or not, his last name isn't actually “Throws”! Paul is CITIUS’s throws analyst and is currently a student at the University of Florida. When he's not posting his Fact of the Day just before midnight, Paul is trying his darnedest to become a runner (5K PB currently sitting at 26:29) and probably complaining about living in Florida. He'd like to thank his girlfriend and CITIUS digital producer Audrey Allen giving him free photos and videos of throwers and YouTube thumbnails to help build a facade of professionalism around Paulie Throws.
Preet is a London based accountant by day and now a track fan the rest of the time. Having never run a step in his life he’s in awe of all these amazing athletes and excited to help bring some attention to the sport.
To look at his work, you’d be inclined to assume that Johnny (a.k.a. @jzsnapz) has been getting in reps behind the lens for decades. But you’d be wrong. He joined CITIUS in early 2022, just two years after picking up a camera. His photos have since appeared in GQ, The New York Times, and of course, our Instagram account. Johnny lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son, and in what little spare time he has, likes to tinker with electronics or go snowboarding.
Justin has been with CITIUS since day one, and during the site’s salad days, his photos did all the heavy lifting when paired with silly, typo-riddled blog posts and Instagram captions. (Nowadays, his instantly recognizable snapshots still pop, but as part of a more balanced media ecosystem.) A Long Islander by birth and upbringing, Justin has since done the unthinkable and refashioned himself as a Boston Guy. His bio was the last to be written because when he’s not traveling the world for commercial photography work, he’s actively ignoring Slack by going on long bike rides or teaching himself Italian.
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