 Glenn at the 2024 United States Olympic trials | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 April 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | High jump, Hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | High jump: 2.00m (Boston, 2024) 400m hurdles: 53.46 (Eugene, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Rachel Glenn (born 17 April 2002) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the high jump and 400m hurdles. [1]
Glenn attended Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California and initially competed in athletics as a 400 metres runner before switching to high jump in 2018. Shortly afterwards she recorded a height of 1.80 metres at the Cal Relays at El Camino College. [2]
In her first year at the University of South Carolina, Glenn won the SEC Outdoor Championship and the 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships title just a few weeks later. [3] [4]
Glenn was an NACAC Championships silver medallist in Freeport, Bahamas in August 2022 behind compatriot Vashti Cunningham, with a height of 1.84m. [5] That year, she competed at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. [6]
In 2023, she transferred to the University of Arkansas. [7] In February 2024, she set an indoor personal best of 1.90m at the Tyson Invitational at Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville. [8] She won the NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts with a personal best, championship record and collegiate best equaling height of 2.00 metres. [9] [10] The height also placed her third on the US all-time list. [11]
At the 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Glenn finished third in the 400m hurdles and 13th in the high jump. [12]
From Southern California, Glenn signed a NIL contract with the WWE’s Next in Line class of 2022. [13]
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