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| Birth name | Anita Ann Howard | |||||||||
| Nationality | United States | |||||||||
| Born | March 22, 1969 | |||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||
| Event(s) | 400 meters | |||||||||
| College/university team | University of Florida | |||||||||
| Club | Quicksilver Track Club | |||||||||
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Anita Ann Howard Prather (born March 22, 1969) 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]