Earlier this week, Heps Track featured triple jumper Samyr Laine, who is competing at the IAAF World Indoor Championships tomorrow. But Laine, who is representing Haiti, isn’t the only Ivy Leaguer scheduled to participate. Brown graduate Anna Pierce will compete in the 800-meter run in Doha, Qatar, at 3 am Friday morning Eastern time.
One six entrants to run under 1:59 in her career, Pierce has been listed as one to watch by the IAAF website:
“Keep an eye on the versatile Anna Pierce (formerly Willard), who took the U.S. title in 2:00.84, and who has rapidly gained a reputation of her own as a scrappy and decisive racer. A sub-four 1,500m runner outdoors, the American collected four impressive 800m wins last season, beating strong fields, including at the World Athletics Final.”
The IAAF was wise not to identify Pierce by her trademark multi-colored hair. She recently told fellow American track star Brianna Glenn that her hairstyle “usually stems from some salon experiment gone wrong, so I never know how it’s exactly going to look. I really like matching, so it’s fun to match a streak of my hair to my current Nike uniform. It’s so normal right now because I toned it down for our wedding and am giving my hair a break from all the bleaching. I don’t want it to fall out!”
Now you know.
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