Monique Henderson
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Full name | Monique Marie Henderson | ||||||||||||||||
Born | February 18, 1983 San Diego, California, U.S. | (age 38)||||||||||||||||
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Monique Marie Henderson (born February 18, 1983 in San Diego, California) is an American track and field athlete, who specializes in the 400-meter dash. Henderson was a gold medalist in both the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China as a member of the American 4×400-meter relay squad.[1]
As a young runner, she set the still standing American record for 9-10-year-old girls in the 400 meters.[2]
Henderson prepped at Morse High School in San Diego '01. She is the only four-time 400 meters California State Champion in the state's history from 98–01.[3] At age 17, she set a US junior class, as well as high school national record (since broken), at 50.74 in the 400 m at the CIF California State Meet. In 2000, still in high school, she was named to the US Olympic track and field team. Selected as an alternate (Pool) for the 4 × 400 m squad but did not run.[4] That year she was named the national Girl's "High School Athlete of the Year" by Track and Field News.[5]
After graduating from high school in 2001 she accepted a scholarship to attend UCLA. While at UCLA she went on to be a five-time Pac-10 champion. In 2004, she placed second at the NCAA championships at 400 m. The next year she became the 2005 NCAA outdoor champion at 400 m, establishing a new NCAA record (50.10) that still stands. In 2005, she won the Honda Award as the nation's best female collegiate track and field athlete.[6][7]
Since 2010, the gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 has been in doubt as Crystal Cox, who ran for the team in a preliminary round, admitted to doping.[8] However, as of 2012 the original result still stands.
She holds a master's degree in kinesiology and worked as a professor in the exercise science department at San Diego Mesa College until 2015 when she became the head coach at Golden West College in Summer 2015.[9][10]
Honors[]
Monique Henderson was nominated and inducted into the San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame in 2009 hosted by , Commission on the Status of Women, University of California, San Diego Women's Center, and San Diego State University Women's Studies.
References[]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Monique Henderson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
- ^ "USATF - Statistics - Records". legacy.usatf.org. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
- ^ "California State Meet Results - 1915 to present". Hank Lawson. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2012.
- ^ "Track and Field Statistics". trackfield.brinkster.net. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
- ^ Track and Field News High School AOY Archived October 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. (PDF) . Retrieved on 2011-09-03.
- ^ ConferenceJun 21, Pac-12; 2005. "Five Finalists, Including UCLA's Monique Henderson, Named For 2005 Collegiate Woman Athlete Of The Year". Pac-12. Retrieved March 26, 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- ^ "Track & Field". CWSA. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
- ^ Jamaica Observer (March 16, 2010). "Jamaica gains Athens Olympics women's 4x400m silver". The Jamaica Observer. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
- ^ "Women's Track & Field". Golden West College. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
- ^ moniquesbootcamp.com
External links[]
- Monique Henderson's U.S. Olympic Team bio
- Monique Henderson at World Athletics
- California State Records before 2000[permanent dead link]
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- 1983 births
- Living people
- American female sprinters
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- African-American female track and field athletes
- Track and field athletes from San Diego
- UCLA Bruins women's track and field athletes
- Olympic female sprinters
- 21st-century African-American people
- 21st-century African-American women
- 20th-century African-American people
- 20th-century African-American women