Jeshua Anderson
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Event(s) | 400 metres, 400 metres hurdles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 400 m: 46.08 s (Seattle 2009) 400 m hurdles: 47.93 s (Eugene 2011) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jeshua Anderson (born June 22, 1989) is a retired American
After college, Anderson pursued a professional career as a sponsored athlete of Nike and sought to qualify for the 2012 Olympic games in London but suffered a torn hamstring that limited his performance.[2]
Jeshua has now stepped down from his career as a competitor to pursue coaching at the University of Washington and focuses on the sprints and hurdle events. Coaching alongside his own college hurdle coach, Mark McDonald who was essential to Jeshua's success by implementing unique training workouts and running mechanics. Anderson now is going into his fourth year with the Huskies.[3] At the start of his coaching position at UW, Jeshua led 2 of his athletes to break school records and receive All-American honors.[4]
Track and Field Career
2007
At the 2007 CIF State Track and Field Championships, he set the National High School Record in the 300 m hurdles in 35.28 seconds, breaking the previous record mark of 35.32 established by George Porter in 1985. Two years later, at the same meet, Reggie Wyatt, runner up in Anderson's record race, improved upon the record by running 35.02.
2008
At the
Anderson also won the 400m hurdle NCAA title that year with a time of 48.69,[4] becoming only the second WSU freshman to win an NCAA title as freshman.
Jeshua was also the champion of the Pac-10 400m Hurdle Champion with a time of 49.55[6]
2009
Anderson becomes the 2009 NCAA 400m hurdle champion with a time of 48.47 as well as the Pac-10 400m champion (48.90).[6]
2010
2010 NCAA 400m Hurdle Runner-up and Pac-10 Champion (48.63).
2011
Jeshua won the 400m hurdles during the 2011 Pac-10 championships with a Pac-10 Meet Record 48.13 in May 2011, and was awarded the Pac-10 Men's Track Athlete of the Year.
2012
In April of that year just before the
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Jeshua_Anderson_coaching.jpg/220px-Jeshua_Anderson_coaching.jpg)
2015
Anderson finished 5th in the 400 hurdles in a time of 49.22 at the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, earned a bronze medal in the Athletics at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay and ran a season best 48.95 in Athletics at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's 400 metres hurdles.
2016
Still dealing with the hamstring injury that occurred in 2012, Jeshua finished as a finalist in the 2016 Olympic Trials.[9][6]
Football career
In his freshman and sophomore years at Washington State, Anderson also played wide receiver for the Washington State Cougars football team. As a freshman, he caught 12 passes for 372 yards and two touchdowns. In his sophomore year, he had 33 receptions for 305 yards and two touchdowns. By his junior year, however, Anderson left the football team to focus on his track career.
Anderson had also played football during his prep career at
Personal best
Distance | Time | Venue |
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400 m | 46.08 s | Seattle , United States (May 2, 2009)
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400 m hurdles | 47.93 s | Eugene, United States (June 26, 2011) |
References
- ^ "Wyatt sets U.S. National High School record in the 300m Hurdles".
- ^ Loh, Stefanie (July 16, 2016). "Ex-Cougars hurdler Jeshua Anderson powering toward Olympics". The Seattle Times.
- ^ "US 400m Hurdler Anderson balances Football and Athletics".
- ^ a b c "Jeshua Anderson". Go Huskies.
- ^ "Anderson sets meet record - 49.28secs 400m Hurdles at USATF Junior Championships, Day 2".
- ^ a b c d "Jeshua Anderson". USATF.
- ^ "Jeshua Anderson named Pac-10 male track athlete of the year".
- ^ "A dream worth chasing for WSU great Jeshua Anderson".
- ^ "2016 Olympic Trials - Mens 400m Hurdles times".
- ^ "2010 Jeshua Anderson Roster".