t-and-f: Corissa Yasen

[Mike and Barb Hubbard]

(from the Seattle Times) Corissa Yasen, the most decorated athlete in Purdue track and field history and a member of the 1196-97 Big Ten women's basketball championship team, was found dead in her Coeur d'Alene, Idaho home.  Yasen was 27.     Don Yasen, Corissa's father, told the Coeur d'Alene Press he discovered his daughter's body.  Don Yasen said there was nothing to indicate a cause of death.  A coroner's report is due tomorrow.     Yasen, who was born in Omaha, Nebraska,and raised in Coeur d'Alene, won the 1196 NCAA heptathlon title and became Purdue's first NCAA champion.  She was a nine-time All-American and 10-time Big Ten Conference champion.