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| Birth name | Anita Ann Howard | |||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | |||||||||||||
| Born | March 22, 1969 | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 400 meters | |||||||||||||
| College team | University of Florida | |||||||||||||
| Club | Quicksilver Track Club | |||||||||||||
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Anita Ann Howard Prather (born March 22, 1969), née Anita Ann Howard, is a former American track and field athlete who specialized in the 400 meters.
Howard received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she was a member of the Florida Gators track and field team from 1988 to 1991. She graduated from Florida with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1993, and was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2007.[1][2]
Howard won a silver medal in the 4 x 400 meters relay at the 1997 World Indoor Championships in Paris, together with teammates Shanelle Porter, Natasha Kaiser-Brown and Jearl Miles-Clark. The team set a new North American indoor record of 3:27.66 minutes.
Her personal best in the 400 meters was a time of 51.01 seconds, which she ran in Austin, Texas in June 1992.[3]
Anita Howard now works for Lennard Highschool as a HOPE Teacher.
See also
- Florida Gators
- List of University of Florida alumni
- List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members
- List of University of Florida Olympians
References
- ^ F Club, Hall of Fame, Gator Greats. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
- ^ "Nine Members Inducted Into University of Florida Athletics Hall of Fame Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine," GatorZone.com (April 13, 2007). Retrieved July 21, 2011.
- ^ World women's all-time best 400m (last updated 2001)