Anna Cockrell

Cockrell in 2018
Personal information
Born	(1997-08-28)August 28, 1997 (age 28) San Ramon, California, U.S.
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Track and field
Events	Sprinting Hurdling
College team	USC Trojans (2017–2021)[1]
Team	Nike
Achievements and titles
Personalbests	100 m hurdles: 12.54 (Eugene, 2021)[2] 400 m hurdles: 51.87 (Paris, 2024)
Medal record Women'sathletics Representingthe United States Olympic Games 2024 Paris 400 m hurdles Pan American Games 2019 Lima 4×400 m relay 2019 Lima 400 m hurdles World U20 Championships 2016 Bydgoszcz 400 m hurdles 2016 Bydgoszcz 4×400 m relay Pan American U20 Championships 2015 Edmonton 400 m hurdles

Anna Cockrell (born August 28, 1997)^[3] is an Americantrack and field athlete competing insprinting andhurdling. She is a two-time medalist at the2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru and won the silver medal at the2024 Summer Olympics in400 m hurdles event.

Cockrell was born on August 28, 1997, inSan Ramon, California to Serena and Kieth Cockrell as the youngest of three children. The family later moved to Charlotte from Detroit, where all three Cockrell children attended Charlotte Latin School. She comes from a family of athletes: her father played football atColumbia University, her older brother,Ross, is acornerback who won aSuper Bowl with theTampa Bay Buccaneers,^[4] and her older sister, Ciera, playedvolleyball atDavidson College.^[5][6]

Cockrell attended Charlotte Latin School in elementary school, and later transferred toProvidence Day School inCharlotte, North Carolina, graduating in 2016. She competed within the school's high school track and field program led by coach Carol Lawrence.^[5] In 2016, she won the gold medal in thewomen's 400 metres hurdles event, with a personal best of 55.20s, at the2016 IAAF World U20 Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland.^[7][8] She also won the gold medal in thewomen's 4 × 400 metres relay event.^[9]

In June 2019, Cockrell became theNCAA champion atthe year's NCAA championships for the women's 400-meter hurdle event with a time of 55.23 after being a runner-up in each of the two years prior.^[10] In August 2019, she won the silver medal in thewomen's 400 metres hurdles event and the gold medal in thewomen's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru.^[3]

In May 2021, Cockrell was named the 2021 Pac-12 Women's Track & Field Scholar Athlete of the Year^[11] before helping to lead her school to a third consecutive conference team title at the 2021 Pac-12 championships by winning the women's 100-meter and 400-meter hurdles events.^[12] The following month, after the cancellation of the prior year's competition due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, Cockrell became the 2021 NCAA champion for the women's 100-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles events to help drive her school to win the team title at the2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She ran the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.58 and the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.68^[13] and became the second woman in history to win both events in the same season at the NCAA championships. Her achievements led her to receive the 2021Honda Sports Award for track and field^[14] and the Pac-12's Tom Hansen Conference Medal for the year.^[12]

Cockrell graduated from theUniversity of Southern California in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in communications from theAnnenberg School and a minor in political science. She went on to earn her master's in public policy with a certificate in public policy advocacy in 2021.^[12]

At the2020 United States Olympic Trials for track and field on June 27, 2021, Cockrell placed third in the women's 400-meter hurdles event to qualify for the team alongsideSydney McLaughlin andDalilah Muhammad. She broke her personal and school record in the 400-metre hurdles event with a time of 53.70, ahead of the previous record she set at the 2021 NCAA championships.^[15]

At the Olympics, Cockrell qualified for the semifinals after coming in third in her heat race with a time of 55.37.^[16][17] She later finished in second place with a time of 54.17 in the semifinals, landing her a spot in the final.^[4] In the final, Cockrell appeared to finish seventh, but was later disqualified after officials discovered she had made a lane violation.^[18][19]

At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Cockrell won a silver medal in the women’s 400-metre hurdles. She came second to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, with a personal best time of 51.87sec.^[20]

Cockrell has been an outspoken advocate for the mental health of student-athletes after suffering a hamstring injury on the first day of the2019 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in which she blamed herself for her school's loss in the team competition. After exhibiting severe symptoms of depression and suicidal tendencies, she eventually sought assistance from her friends, her head coach, and a sports psychologist, all of whom she thanked in her student-athlete graduation speech at USC that later went viral.^{[4][22][6][23]}

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• 1997 births
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• NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
• Olympic silver medalists for the United States in track and field
• Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
• Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
• Providence Day School alumni
• Sportspeople from Charlotte, North Carolina
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• USC Trojans women's track and field athletes
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