Aleesha Barber

Career

She set a personal best time of 12.85 seconds at the 2010 National Collegiate Athletic Association Eastern First Round Championships on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Barber represented Trinidad and Tobago at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women"s 100 m hurdles. She ran in the fifth and final heat against seven other athletes, including Jamaica"s Brigitte Foster-Hylton, and United States" Dawn Harper, who later dominated this event by winning an Olympic gold medal.

She finished the race in fourth place by two hundredths of a second (002) behind Kazakhstan"s Anastassiya Pilipenko, with a national record-breaking time of 13.01 seconds.

Barber, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed eighteenth overall, and was ranked below two mandatory slots for the next round.

Achievements

• She is a 2007 National Collegiate Athletic Association All-American honoree, a six-time Big Ten Conference champion, and a seven-time collegiate record holder. Barber also won a gold medal for the 100 m hurdles at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, clocking at 13.09 seconds.

Membership

Barber is also a member of the track and field team for the Penn State Nittany Lions, and a management graduate at Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.