Francesca Green

October 18, 2003
(INDIANAPOLIS) The Indiana Invaders have added long jumper Francesca Green, a Two-Time NCAA All American and Two-Time Pac-10 Champion, to the team's roster. Green's best long jump performance is 6.36m. Green returns to competition after two seasons off and one season of injury.

Green competed at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Australia in 1996, was a two-time PAC-10 Champion, and finished fourth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships as a freshman at Washington State University. Green graduated from Kamiakin High School in Kennewick, Washington.

Green, during her time off from competition, coached the men and women sprinters as a full-time assistant coach at Washington State University for three years. As a student-athlete Green was the 2000 recipient of the GTE/CoSIDA academic All-American award as well as the prestigious Arthur Ashe Sports Scholar award (for scholarship, athleticism, and humanitarianism) her senior year at Washington State University.

In high school, Green set three Junior Olympic records in the 100, 200, and high jump as a freshman. As a sophomore, Green was a State Champion in the 100 and 4x100 and also competed on the USA Junior prep National Team, traveling to Hong Kong and China. As a junior she was the state champion in the 200 and runner-up in three events (100, high jump and long jump). During her senior year, she was the state champion in the 100 and third in the long jump, earning her the title of Big Nine Female Track Athlete of the year.

Team Director Greg Harger said, "Green has returned to very solid fitness going into specific training for next year's Olympic calendar. She has excellent potential and talent. She will look for an early Olympic Trials qualifying mark during the indoor season in preparation for July and beyond."

Green joins a roster that includes four Olympians and a team history that includes seven individual National Champions, one World Champion, one American Record, and have had two American Record Holders or former record holders wear the Invaders' uniform since the formation of the club in 1998. The Invaders have eight athletes currently qualified for the 2004 US Olympic Trials.

For further information on the Indiana Invaders, please contact Greg Harger at 317 289-4018 or online at: (email)