There should be a limit of being positive

[GrandGreen]

Track Team Begins Conference Title Chase

Courtesy: University of North Texas

Release: 05/13/2005

New Orleans (5/13/05) - Discus thrower Jessica Henderson got the Mean Green track and field team off to a great start at the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Championships.

Henderson, the two-time defending conference champion in the event, placed fourth with a throw of 42.41-meters. The senior owns the top two throws in school history but will miss the NCAA Regional Meet for the first time in two years.

Despite sustaining a knee injury earlier this season, Deidra Wesley was hoping to make her return at the conference championship. The junior was slated to compete in the heptathlon, but soreness in her knee during warm-ups kept her out of the event.

Wesley will attempt the high jump tomorrow if her knee allows. She is the school record holder in both the heptathlon and high jump, and became the first North Texas heptathlete to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Meet this season.

Tomorrow, the rest of the Mean Green track team will spring into action for running event preliminaries and additional field events

Henderson, the two time conference discus champion gets a fourth place and one of your best athletes, Wesley cannot compete and this is a "great start". I shudder to think what a bad start would be.

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Edited May 14, 2005 by GrandGreen