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'''Jesseca H. Cross''' (born October 5, 1975, in [[New Orleans, LA]]) is a former [[track and field]] athlete from the [[United States]] who specialized in throwing events.  She attended the [[University of Wyoming]] on a basketball scholarship, and then competed for the United States in the [[hammer throw]] and [[shot put]] at the [[2000 Summer Olympics]]. She did not progress beyond the qualification round in either event.<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/letter=0/athcode=136789/index.html Biography Cross Jesseca]. [[IAAF]]. Retrieved on 2010-02-22.</ref>

Cross was inducted into the Wyoming Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.<ref>[http://www.wshof.org/inductees_2002.asp 2002 Inductees] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929142859/http://www.wshof.org/inductees_2002.asp |date=2008-09-29 }}. Wyoming Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2010-02-22.</ref> She was the interim head women's volleyball coach at [[Northwest College]] in [[Powell, Wyoming]] for the 2007 fall semester. Flavia Siqueira was hired as the permanent coach in March 2008.<ref>[http://www.northwestcollege.edu/ltvb/Coaches.cfm  Northwest College biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031143000/http://www.northwestcollege.edu/ltvb/Coaches.cfm |date=2007-10-31 }}. Northwest College. Retrieved on 2010-02-22.</ref>

==Achievements==
{| {{AchievementTable}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2000
| rowspan=2 | [[Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|Olympic Games]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Sydney, Australia]]
| 19th
| 60.58 m (HT)
|-
| 17th
| [[Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put|17.27 m (SP)]]
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/TrackAndFieldArchive/2001/Cross_Jesseca.asp Jesseca Cross] profile at [[USATF]]
* {{cite Sports-Reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cr/jesseca-cross-1.html |title=Jesseca Cross |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525013715/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cr/jesseca-cross-1.html |archivedate=2015-05-25 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20010428083706/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/2000/usteam_trackandfield_women_a-h/#15 Olympic profile] from ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''

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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1975 births]]
[[Category:American female shot putters]]
[[Category:American female hammer throwers]]
[[Category:Olympic track and field athletes for the United States]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Laramie, Wyoming]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportswomen]]


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