Career
She ran in the preliminaries and semi-finals. Anderson subsequently had to return her medal along with the rest of the team after Marion Jones was disqualified following her admission to using performance-enhancing drugs. On July 16, 2010, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favor of the other American teammates and returned the medals.
Anderson has had rare success at both long sprints and short sprint races.
She ran in high school for Long Beach Polytechnic High School, joining Aminah Haddad to make for a powerful 1-2 sprinting punch. She ran collegiately at the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles) under Bob Kersee.
Her 4 x 100m relay team finished as high as 3rd at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Women"s Outdoor Track and Field Championship in 1998 and the 4 x 400m relay team finished 2nd in 1999. At the 1995 Pan American Junior Games, she ran on the winning 4 x 100m relay and the silver medal winning 4 x 400m relay.
The following year at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics she got a preview of the Sydney track while winning a gold medal on the United States of America 4 x 100m relay and taking an individual silver medal in the 100 metres, setting her lifetime Puerto Rico of 11.43.
In 1997 she was on the winning 4 x 100m relay at the World University Games. In 1999, she ran on the 4 x 400m relay team that took the silver medal at the Pan American Games. In 2000, at the United States Olympic Trials, she ran her personal best of 51.18 in the 400 to make the team
Earlier that season she also set her personal record in the 200 metres of 23.44 at the Modesto Relays.
She is the older sister of football"s Marques Anderson.