Green comes to Purdue from Washington State University, where she spent eight years both as a student-athlete and coach. Her collegiate coaching career began in August 2000, after Cougar[apos]s head coach Rick Sloan named her assistant coach in charge of sprinters.
Last season Green guided Washington State[apos]s women[apos]s 4x400 team to All-America status, as they finished seventh (3:35.49) at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Her 4x400 team later went on to place third at the PAC-10 Outdoor Championships and finished runner-up at the NCAA West Regional Championships. Green[apos]s women[apos]s 4x100 relay squad also scored at the PAC-10 Championships, placing sixth with a time of 45.49.
Individually, Green coached Tiffany Giles to a pair of top-five showings at the PAC-10 Outdoor Championships (200, 400). Giles also scored a fifth-place finish in the 400 at NCAA Regionals.
Green led Washington State[apos]s men[apos]s sprinters and relays to a pair of outdoor PAC-10 titles and a runner-up showing in 2003. Anthony Buchanan won the 100 title, clocking a time of 10.10, and the 4x100 relay crossed first in 39.68. NCAA Regional qualifier Bennie Chatman placed behind Buchanan in the 100 (10.12) and earned the bronze at regionals, coming in at 10.48.
In 2002, Green had two sprinters compete at NCAA Championships: Anson Henry at the indoor meet in the 60 (3rd, 6.66) and Buchanan at the outdoor mee in the 100. Henry continued to train with Green during the 2003 season, and went on to place second at Canadian Nationals in the 100 (10.04). Henry also competed this past summer for the Canadian team at the Pan-Am Games and World Championships.
Green was one of the most versatile, accomplished and decorated track and field athletes in Washington State track and field history. She won the PAC-10 long jump titles in both 1996 and 1998, and earned All-America honors from her 1996 NCAA outdoor and 1997 NCAA indoor long jump competition. A sprinter, jumper in the high, long and triple jump events, Green scored 21.5 of WSU[apos]s 123 points at the 1999 PAC-10 Championships. She ran the anchor leg of WSU[apos]s record-setting 4x100 relay team (44.50) in 1999.
A star in the classroom, Green was selected as a GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American (District VIII), to the PAC-10 All-Academic Track team, and earned Senior Excellence in Academics honors. She was selected Student-Athlete Advisory Board Outstanding Senior, earned the Eagle Hardware and Garden Academic Salute Trophy, selected for the WSU President[apos]s Award for Leadership and was honored with an Arthur Ashe, Jr., Award.
Green is a 1995 graduate of Kennewick High in Kennewick, Wash., and received her bachelor[apos]s degree in kinesiology from WSU in 1998 and her master[apos]s in education with in athletic administration from WSU in 2000.