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The pole vault holds the potential to be the strongest event for the 2005 Husker women. It could be argued that this year’s group of Nebraska women’s pole vaulters, which returns two All-Americans in senior Christi Lehman and sophomore Jenny Green, shapes up to be the finest in the county.

As a freshman, Green had the finest season ever in the brief history of the event at NU. The Grand Island, Neb., native captured both the indoor and outdoor Big 12 championships, while also earning bronze at both NCAA Championships. She has been preparing to compete in the multi-events this fall as well, but may be forced to miss a portion of the 2005 season with an injury.

"Jenny’s an amazing athlete and very focused," assistant coach Rick Attig said. "She just won’t stop. She went all summer before her freshman year competing, and then went to the World Junior Championships this year. I think she could also do extremely well in the multi-events."

Ten Returning All-Americans to be Featured in 2005
An amazing 10 NCAA All-Americans return for the Huskers this season, five each for the men’s and women’s squads. Headlining the group will be sophomore sprinter/hurdler Priscilla Lopes, who won accolades in the 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles indoors, as well as the 100-meter hurdles outdoors. Other women to return after reaching All-America status include junior Ashley Selig, who finished seventh indoors in the pentathlon and third outdoors in the heptathlon, and senior Christi Lehman, who finished ninth (eighth American) in the indoor pole vault. Senior thrower Becky Breisch, the 2004 NCAA discus champion, and sophomore Jenny Green, an All-American in both the indoor (third) and outdoor (third) pole vault, also return for NU, but both are likely to redshirt in 2005 becuase of injury.


i've heard it's a back injury?

From the best of my knowledge she hurt her tailbone, lower back when in Italy this summer for the Junior World meet. She had a problem in warmups and happened to slip, sliding down just above the box, landing bottom first. This may be the injury that they have referrered to. All I know is that she is one extremely tough and talented girl and will be ready to vault when the occassion arises.

Yeah she really fell hard last summer. When I talked to Attig earlier this fall she had still not recovered 100%. I think that is the injury the article is referring to.

Yeah coach attig was telling me about this at the beginng of the year!!

I aslo heard it was from gymnastics when she was younger.

Heres the whole story...
she had stress fractures 4 of them to be exact since march of last year with hella bad spasms in her back all year.... then when she fell in Italy one of the stress fractures became a compression fracture... basically everytime she moves on vertabre slips inside the other where its broken which causes misaligment and many other discomforts as you cann all guess... She has been in a brace for the better part of the year and all the stress fractures are now healed..... bad news the compression is not and its day by day we really dont know what is gonna go on right now... she is in the brace for another month to see if it will heal... so she hasnt practiced with us at all all year... she is now running with us as of monday... so we shall see hopefully she can return full strength.

thanks for the 411

Hey guys- just to set everything straight… as mentioned before, I had some stress fractures in my back…one of which became a complete fracture due to never being properly diagnosed and me not knowing to take time off to allow it to heal, (the fall in Italy this summer probably didn't help matters but I had been having severe spasms clear back to March around Texas Relays). In October, I was put in a Boston Overlap brace/cast. I went to the doctor last Monday for my 2nd CT scan and he suggested I wear the brace for one more month. My stress fractures are healed but the fracture through my spinous process on my L2 is still in repair. We are hoping for the best. Last week, I started running again for the first time since July. Coach Attig and I have decided to red-shirt this entire year and take things slow. Only time will tell on my healing but I hope to be back by next indoor season. I wish all the girls the BEST OF LUCK this year - as there’s definitely some great competition throughout all the conferences.

Published Monday, January 24, 2005

NU's Green faces longer rehab stint



By Bob Hamar
bob.hamar@theindependent.com

When Jenny Green walked into the doctor's office early last week, she thought she would be walking out without the back brace she has been wearing for the past 15 weeks.

But the tests didn't go so well for the University of Nebraska pole vaulter. The CAT scan indicated that a crack that had developed over the past year still hadn't healed.

That means Green's track career at Nebraska will be put on hold for awhile longer.

"When I walked into the doctor's office, I didn't think I'd be wearing the brace any more," Green said. "It came as a shock. I knew going into the appointment that I wasn't 100 percent. If this pays off in the long run, every month in the brace will be well worth it."

Green had planned on red shirting this indoor season, but had hoped to return for the outdoor season in the spring. Now she knows she will be in the back brace at least another four weeks, so the plan now is to gradually get back into shape for the 2006 indoor season.

"It's going to be better to redshirt both. That way there is no rush," Green said. "I'll start over with the fundamentals of running. They'll put me on the long jump runway and gradually build back to the pole vault."

That means the Nebraska high school record holder in the pole vault, who hasn't had a pole in her hands since a fall at the World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy, last summer, is going to go a while longer without vaulting.

That's not easy for someone who is as competitive as Green. She wasn't made to stand on the sidelines and watch.

"It's going to be tough," Green said. "I'll still go out there and help them (her teammates) on the runway and things like that. I'll try to be as involved as I can, but it's definitely a new side of it -- being on the sidelines and being a spectator.

"The more I'm out, the more I appreciate everything, and the more drive I'll have to win when I come back and actually start working out again."

Green had a huge freshman season last year for the Huskers. She was named the Big 12 Indoor freshman of the year and crushed the conference and school record with a 13-foot, 91Ž4- inch performance in the first meet of her career.

Green won third in the pole vault at both the indoor and outdoor national meets, won the Big 12 outdoor and indoor titles and set a Big 12 and Nebraska record of 13-111Ž4 at the Texas Relays.

Green's comeback will depend a lot on "pain management." The doctors said she can't hurt her back any more, so it comes down to how much pain she can tolerate.

"Everybody tells me I have a high pain tolerance," Green said. "I'm stubborn I'd say when it comes to things like this. I'll go down trying. I guess that's my attitude for it."

Green's ultimate goal has been to represent the United States in the Olympic Games.

That goal is now very much in doubt.

For the time being, Green's goals have changed just a bit.

"My new goal is to make it through the whole season and to be able to vault again," Green said.

You would be foolish to bet against her.

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Green ready to get back in groove after surgery

By ZACH LEMING
December 08, 2005

Adversity causes a lot of people to crumble under pressure, but the Nebraska women’s pole vault team is out to prove otherwise this season.

Even though the group lost its top performer from last season and is going through a coaching change following the departure of former coach Rick Attig, the Cornhuskers haven’t lost an ounce of enthusiasm.

The return of redshirt sophomore and 2004 All-American Jenny Green from a major back injury and the signing of freshman Kate Colvin, who set the Colorado girl’s state high school record while at Lewis-Central High in Monument, Colo., give the NU pole vaulters reason for optimism.

Green’s back is somewhat of a concern because she was unable to vault for nearly one and a half year since falling in warm-ups at the Junior World Championships in Italy in July 2004.

“I was in a brace for four months and had to start from scratch last January,â€Â