Where Are They Now: The Top US No. 1 Girls Athletes In 2016

Apr 22, 2020

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By Garrett Zatlin - MileSplit Recruiting Correspondent

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As many of the country's top track and field recruits prepare themselves for a collegiate and post-high school world, we decided to take a look back at some of the country's top talents from four years ago (all athletes from all classes) and review how they have fared since graduating.

Note: We are using rankings from the spring of 2016 for the purposes of our analysis

See: Where Are They Now: The Top US No. 1 Boys Athletes From 2016

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* Cockrell runs the 400mH in 2017

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Anna Cockrell, Charlotte Providence Day School (NC)

2016 National Rank: 300mH (1st), 400mH (2nd), 100mH (6th)

College: USC

Rarely do you see dominance at the high school level easily translate to the college stage. Then again, rarely do you ever see a talent like Anna Cockrell.

Potentially underappreciated in high school as she competed in the same era as Sydney McLaughlin, Cockrell was the country's top high school 300 meter hurdle talent in 2016 with a time ...