Background
Her mother, Branwen Smith-King, is a former Bermuda national track and field team member, while her father Adrian King is a former international cricket player, and her sister Akilah was an accomplished athlete at Brown University.
Her mother, Branwen Smith-King, is a former Bermuda national track and field team member, while her father Adrian King is a former international cricket player, and her sister Akilah was an accomplished athlete at Brown University.
Arantxa competed at the 4th IAAF World Youth Championships in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2005. She competed at the 11th IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China, in 2006 and the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 2008. Arantxa has competed on behalf of Stanford University.
She was an National Collegiate Athletic Association runner-up in 2010 and an All-American twice.
She completed a degree in Political Science in 2011. She holds the Bermuda National Record for the women"s Long Jump outdoors and indoors for the long jump.