2010 Men's and Women's Cross Country/Track and Field Media Guide

scored a fifth-place finish in the 400 at NCAA West
Regional Championships.
Green led Washington State’s men’s sprinters and relays to
a pair of outdoor PAC-10 titles and a runner-up showing in
2003. Anthony Buchanan won the 100 title, clocking a time
of 10.10, and the 4x100 relay crossed first in 39.68. NCAA
Regional qualifier Bennie Chatman placed behind Buchanan
in the 100 (10.12) and earned the bronze at Regionals,
coming in at 10.48.
In 2002, Green had two sprinters compete at NCAA
Championships: Anson Henry at the indoor meet in the
60 (3rd, 6.66) and Buchanan at the outdoor meet in the
100. Henry continued to train with Green during the
2003 season, and went on to place second at Canadian
Nationals in the 100 (10.04). Henry also competed for the
Canadian National team at
the Pan-Am Games and World
Championships in 2002.
VIII), to the PAC-10 All-Academic Track team, and earned
Senior Excellence in Academics honors. She was selected
Student-Athlete Advisory Board Outstanding Senior, earned
the Eagle Hardware and Garden Academic Salute Trophy,
selected for the WSU President’s Award for Leadership and
was honored with an Arthur Ashe, Jr., Award.
Green is a 1995 graduate of Kamiakin High in Kennewick,
Wash., and received her bachelor’s degree in kinesiology
from WSU in 1998 and her master’s in education with an
emphasis in athletic administration from WSU in 2000.
As an athlete, Francesca was
one of the most versatile,
accomplished and decorated
track and field athletes in
Washington State track and
field history. She won the PAC-
10 long jump titles in both
1996 and 1998, and earned All-
America honors from her 1996
NCAA outdoor and 1997 NCAA
indoor long jump competition.
A sprinter, jumper in the high,
long and triple jump events,
Green scored 21.5 of WSU’s
123 points at the 1999 PAC-10
Championships. She ran the
anchor leg of WSU’s recordsetting
4x100 relay team (44.50)
in 1999. In 1996, Green was a
member of the USATF Junior
World Championship team that
competed In Sydney, Australia.
A star in the classroom, she
was selected as a GTE/CoSIDA
Academic All-American (District
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