Kerry-Ann Richards
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Kerry-Ann Richards (born 22 April 1976) is a Jamaican track and field athlete.[1] She represented her country in sprinting on several junior and senior teams. She won gold medals as part of the Jamaican 4×100 metres relay teams at the Pan American Games in 1999.[2] Richards ran track collegiately at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where she was six-times Big Ten Conference champion, Big Ten Freshman of the Year and three times NCAA Division I All-American.[3] Richards earned her master's degree at Illinois in 2000, was named to the National Dean's List as well as being an multiple times NCAA Academic All-American.
References
[edit]- ^ "Athlete Profile Kerry-Ann Richards". IAAF. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
- ^ "1999 Pan American Games" (PDF). Athletics Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ^ Burson, Derrick (24 April 2000). "Q&A with Kerry Ann Richards". FightingIllini.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
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Categories:
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Illinois Fighting Illini women's track and field athletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Jamaican female sprinters
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Jamaica
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Jamaican women
- Competitors at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Jamaica
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics