16 Facts About Anna Cockrell

Anna Cockrell was born on August 28,1997 and is an American track and field athlete competing in sprinting and hurdling.

The family later moved to Charlotte from Detroit, where all three Anna Cockrell children attended Charlotte Latin School.

Anna Cockrell comes from a family of athletes: her father played football at Columbia University, her older brother, Ross, is a cornerback who won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and her older sister, Ciera, played volleyball at Davidson College.

Anna Cockrell attended Charlotte Latin School in elementary school, and later transferred to Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduating in 2016.

Anna Cockrell competed within the school's high school track and field program led by coach Carol Lawrence.

In June 2019, Anna Cockrell became the NCAA champion at the 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.

Anna Cockrell ran the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.58 and the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.68 and became the second woman in history to win both events in the same season at the NCAA championships.

Anna Cockrell's achievements led her to receive the 2021 Honda Sports Award for track and field and the Pac-12's Tom Hansen Conference Medal for the year.

Anna Cockrell graduated from the University of Southern California in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in communications from the Annenberg School and a minor in political science.

Anna Cockrell went on to earn her master's in public policy with a certificate in public policy advocacy in 2021.

At the 2020 United States Olympic Trials for track and field on June 27,2021, Anna Cockrell placed third in the women's 400-meter hurdles event to qualify for the team alongside Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad.

Anna Cockrell 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.

Anna Cockrell later finished in second place with a time of 54.17 in the semifinals, landing her a spot in the final.

At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Anna Cockrell won a silver medal in the women's 400-metre hurdles.

Anna Cockrell came second to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, with a personal best time of 51.87sec.

Anna Cockrell has been an outspoken advocate for the mental health of student-athletes after suffering a hamstring injury on the first day of the 2019 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in which she blamed herself for her school's loss in the team competition.