Kendall Baisden
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March 5, 1995 Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
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| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 120 lb (54 kg) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||
| University team | University of Texas | |||||||||||||||
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Kendall Baisden (born March 5, 1995) is an American track and field sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter dash. She holds a personal record of 50.46 seconds for the distance, set in 2014.
She was the double 400 m and 4×400-meter relay champion at both the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Collegiately she runs for the University of Texas at Austin and has won NCAA relay titles indoors and outdoors.
Baisden was born in Beverly Hills, Michigan to Tina and Anthony Baisden. She attended Detroit Country Day School and was first interested in playing tennis, looking to follow in the footsteps of Serena Williams. It was during tennis practice that her speed was noticed and the coaches recommended she compete in track and field instead. She ran in a range of sprint distances and at state level won three 400-meter dash and two titles in both the 100-meter dash and 200-meter dash. She quickly showed her skill at national level, placing in the top three of the 200 m at the 2007 AAU Junior Olympic Games at the age of twelve. A National Junior Olympic double in the short sprints followed in 2009, with her runs of 11.73 seconds and 23.69 seconds being American records for the age group.
Baisden began to progress more in the longer sprint in the 2010, taking the under-16s Junior Olympic title and the national junior title over 400 m. Her time of 52.59 seconds that season placed her among the world's top young sprinters that year. Focusing more on the 400 m in 2011, she was runner-up at the national youth trials and went on to place sixth individually at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics, as well as take her first international medal (a silver) in the sprint medley relay.
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