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|  Southern Illinois Hires Price-Smith & Nathan Sept. 3, 2001 Courtesy of USATF
CARBONDALE, IL - Southern Illinois University
has hired four-time Olympian
and SIU alum
Connie
Price-Smith as its women's head track coach. The
fifth-place finisher in
the
shot put at the 1996 Olympic Games, Price-Smith is a
12-time U.S.
outdoor
champ and the 1995 World Indoor Championships silver
medalist.
A six-time U.S. discus champ, Price-Smith, 39, participated
in track and basketball prior to her graduation from Southern Illinois in
1985.
SIU also hired 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials heptathlon
champion DeDee
Nathan, who
will work with Price-Smith as an assistant coach. The
runner-up at the
1998
Goodwill Games to Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Nathan, 33,
finished ninth at
the
2000 Olympic Games with 6,150 points.
Price-Smith and Nathan's coaching careers will begin after
they compete
at
the Goodwill Games this week in Brisbane.
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