event club name sport birth_date article_title birth_name collegeteam
400 meters quicksilver track club anita howard track and field 22 march 1969 anita howard
 anita ann howard university of florida
anita howard

anita ann howard prather -lrb- born march 22 , 1969 -rrb- , née anita ann howard , 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 .
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 .
