Jeshua Anderson

Jeshua Anderson (born June 22, 1989) is an American retired sprinter, who specializes in the 400 meter hurdles. He is a 3 time NCAA champion in the 400m hurdles and was the second freshman from Washington State University to ever win the NCAA title. In 2008 Anderson was 400 meter hurdles Junior World Champion and holds the second fastest high school time recorded in the 300m hurdles. He was born and raised in Woodland Hills, California and attended Taft High School. After winning the 2011 Outdoor Championships, Anderson had the competed for team USA at the world championships. He also participated in the 2016 Olympic trials in which he finished as a finalist.

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.

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. At the start of his coaching position at UW, Jeshua led 2 of his athletes to break school records and receive All-American honors.

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 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Bydgoszcz, Poland, Anderson won a gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles and 4x400 meter relay. At the latter qualifying race in Ohio, Anderson set a new stadium record at the Jesse Owens Memorial stadium with a time of 49.28 that was in place since 2003.

Anderson also won the 400m hurdle NCAA title that year with a time of 48.69,

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). He followed that up by winning his third NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 48.56.'''

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.

Personal best Distance Time Venue 400 m 46.08 s Seattle, United States (May 2, 2009) 400 m hurdles 47.93 s Eugene, United States (June 26, 2011)