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- basketball scholarship to
- the University of California
- at Los Angeles. Jackie
- starred on the team, but
- what she really wanted to
- do was run track. She got permission from
- her basketball coach to try out for the track
- and field team.
-
- Track coach Bob Kersee saw JackieΓÇÖs
- explosive speed and decided to train her for
- the heptathlon, a two-day competition in
- womenΓÇÖs track and field in which athletes
- compete in seven events: the 100-meter
- hurdles, the high jump, the shot put, the 200-
- meter run, the long jump, the javelin, and the
- 800-meter run. Jackie won two NCAA
- heptathlon titles and a silver medal in
- the event at the 1984 Olympics. A year
-