SERENE ROSS
Events: Javelin
Height: 5-10
Weight: 200
PRs: JT - 60.06mm/197-0 (2002); HT - 58.66m/192-5 (2001)
Born: October 15, 1977 in Edinburg, Pa.
Current Residence: West Lafayette, Ind.
High School: New Wilmington HS (PA) '97
College: Purdue '02
Coach: John Zera

Agent: Self

Club: Unattached

Career Highlights: 2002 USA JT champion; 2002 NCAA JT Champion; 3^rd at 2001 USA Outdoors JT; 2000 Big Ten HT Champion

Ross is an up and coming javelin thrower from Purdue University. At the 2002 NCAA Outdoor Championships, she set a then American record in the javelin when she threw 59.64 meters/195 feet, 8 inches, topping her previous personal best by nearly eight feet. She set the AR again in winning her first USA Outdoor title with a throw of 60.06m/197-0, a mark later surpassed by current American record holder Kim Kreiner in July. As a collegiate junior, Ross competed in the qualifying rounds of the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials, finishing 19^th. She returned in 2001 to finish 3^rd at the 2001 USA Outdoor Championships and 6^th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships majored in sociology at Purdue.

2002: Won USA Outdoor champs (60.06m/197-0 MR, AR at that time)won NCAA Outdoors (59.64m/195-8 an AR at that time)...15^th at NCAA Indoors WT (18.44m/60-6.0)won Big 10 Outdoors (57.30m/188-0)3^rd at Mt. SAC (53.87m/176-9). ..best of 60.06m/197-0.
2001: 3rd at USA Outdoors JT (52.07m/170-10)6th at NCAA Outdoors JT (50.65m/166-02) ranked #4 in the U.S. by T&FN best of 54.72m/179-6 (JT) and 58.66m/192-5 (HT)
2000: 19th in qualifying at U.S. Olympic Trials JT (46.06m/151-01) 13th at NCAA Outdoors JT 18th at NCAA Outdoors HT won Big Ten Outdoors HT 4th at Big Ten Outdoors JTbests of 50.00m/164-0 (JT) and 57.78m/189-7 (HT).
1999: 7th at USA Juniors JT 7th at NCAA Outdoors JT 4th at Big Ten Outdoors JT best of 169-1.
1998: Best of 163-10.
1997: Best of 152-5.
1996: Best of 146-0.
1995: Best of 144-4.

3/28/03