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Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
Born | 17 April 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | High jump: 2.00m (Boston, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Rachel Glenn (born 17 April 2002) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the high jump.[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]
From Southern California, Glenn signed a NIL contract with the WWE’s Next in Line class of 2022.[12]