Early Life
During his high school years at Kailua High School on Oahu, Hawaii and at Pleasant Hill High School in Oregon, he set the national high school record for the javelin in 1971 at 259 feet, 9 inches; the record stood until 1988. Francis was also a decathlete for Pleasant Hill.
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