Eugene Register-Guard 6/30/73 Saturday

“Why Fran won’t run in Russia” – her husband did not want her to.

Fran Sichting, Marshfield High School, Coos Bay, Oregon

Sichting set the national high school record in the long jump at 19-6.75.

Sichting was one of two national high school record setters at Marshfield High; the other was Steve Prefontaine.