 "The pieces of jewelry I received were beautiful. I could not wait to show them off to my friends ... elegant ... I love the jewelry."
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, is considered by many to be the greatest woman athlete of our time. Her stellar achievements include being the first American woman to set a world record in multi-event competition and the first to break the 7,000-point barrier, with 7,148 points, in the heptathlon at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow. She won the Olympic gold medal in the heptathlon in 1988 and again in 1992, breaking her own record and setting a new world record with her gold-medal long jump in the 1988 Olympic Games.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee has been an achiever all of her life. At the age of 14, she won the first of four consecutive U.S. junior national titles in the pentathlon. She graduated in the top 10 percent of her high school class and attended the University of California at Los Angeles on a basketball scholarship, playing as a basketball All-American and as part of the UCLA track team.
In 1997, Jackie Joyner-Kersee added author to her long list of achievements, publishing the book, "A Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete." She serves as a shining example for today's women achievers. |
