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Cougar Student Athlete Of The Week
 Krystal Ward |
Class: Junior
Hometown: Rusk, Texas
High School: Rusk
Height: 5-8
Event: heptathlon, high jump
Birthdate: 05/01/1983
Experience: 2L
Major: Exercise Science
March 15, 2004
Krystal Ward has been winning since the time she stepped on the track at the University of Houston. This season she has continued her winning ways, with the Conference USA pentathlon crown. She scored 3811points, an NCAA provisional mark. The junior scored a personal record of 1.77 meters in the high jump en route to the crown. Here is a look at some of her other accomplishments.
2003 Indoor: Won the high jump and finished second in the pentathlon at the Conference USA Championships?won the high jump with a season-best mark of 5-7.75?scored 3,726 points in the pentathlon?had a season-best mark of 18-2.50 to finish seventh in the long jump at the Houston Invitational.
2002 Outdoor: Earned All-American honors with a sixth-place finish in the heptathlon with a season-best 5,337 points at the NCAA Championships?won the heptathlon at the Conference USA Championships and finished second at the Texas Relays?won the high jump at the LSU Team Invitational
Born May 1, 1983, in Las Vegas, Nev. Ward, the daughter of Terri and Floyd Franklin and Garrick and Shannon Ward is an exercise science major at Houston.