{{Short description|American high jump athlete}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Rachel Glenn | image = Rachel Glenn.jpg | caption = Glenn at the 2024 United States Olympic trials | full_name = Rachel Symone Glenn | nationality = American | birth_date = {{birth date and age|2002|4|17}} | birth_place = | hometown = Long Beach, California, U.S. | height = 6'2" | weight = | sport = Athletics | event = High jump, Hurdles | pb = '''High jump:''' 2.00m (Boston, 2024)<br>'''400m hurdles''': 53.46 (Eugene, 2024) | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Women's athletics}} {{Medal|Country|the {{USA}}}} {{Medal|Competition|NACAC Championships}} {{Medal|Silver|2022 Freeport|High jump}} }}
'''Rachel Symone Glenn''' (born April 17, 2002) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the high jump and 400m hurdles.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rachel Glenn |website=World Athletics |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/rachel-glenn-14715993}}</ref>
==Early life== Glenn attended Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California and initially competed in athletics as a 400 metres runner before switching to high jump in 2018. Shortly afterwards she recorded a height of 1.80 metres at the Cal Relays at El Camino College.<ref>{{cite web |website=Press Telegram |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |url=https://www.presstelegram.com/2018/03/22/wilsons-rachel-glenn-reaches-sensation-status-after-astonishing-high-jump/ |title=Wilson's Rachel Glenn reaches sensation status after astonishing high jump |first=Scott |last=French |date=March 22, 2018}}</ref>
==Career== In her first year at the University of South Carolina, Glenn won the SEC Outdoor Championship and the 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships title just a few weeks later.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2023/07/14/olympic-hopeful-rachel-glenn-left-south-carolina-over-nil-strategy/amp/ |website=New York Post |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |title=Olympic hopeful Rachel Glenn left South Carolina over NIL strategy |first=Caroline |last=McCarthy |date=July 14, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Rachel Glenn Wins High Jump National Championship |date=June 13, 2021 |url=https://www.abccolumbia.com/2021/06/13/rachel-glenn-wins-high-jump-national-championship/ |website=ABCColumbia |accessdate=March 10, 2024}}</ref>
Glenn was an NACAC Championships silver medallist in Freeport, Bahamas in August 2022 behind compatriot Vashti Cunningham, with a height of 1.84m.<ref>{{cite web |website=Insidethegames |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1127154/kassanavoid-domination-ncac |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |title=Kassanavoid headlines day of US domination at NACAC Championships |first=Eliott |last=Brennan |date=August 19, 2022}}</ref> That year, she competed at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.<ref>{{cite web |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |date=July 16, 2022 |website=World Athletics |url=https://worldathletics.org/results/world-athletics-championships/2022/world-athletics-championships-oregon-2022-7137279/women/high-jump/qualification/series |title=High Jump Women results}}</ref>
In 2023, she transferred to the University of Arkansas.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.on3.com/nil/news/ncaa-high-jump-champion-arkansas-razorbacks-commit-rachel-glenn-transfer-portal-nil-deal/ |website=on3.com |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |title=NCAA high jump champion, Arkansas commit Rachel Glenn on transfer portal: Schools 'straight up offer an NIL deal' |first=Pete |last=Nakos |date=July 11, 2023}}</ref> In February 2024, she set an indoor personal best of 1.90m at the Tyson Invitational at Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 10, 2024 |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |website=Runnerspace |title=RACHEL GLENN 1ST PLACE WOMEN'S INVITATIONAL HIGH JUMP, 2ND PLACE 200M AND 6TH PLACE 60M HURDLES – TYSON INVITATIONAL 2024 |url=https://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=videos&video_id=381275}}</ref> She won the NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts with a personal best, championship record and collegiate best equaling height of 2.00 metres.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bleacherreport.com/videos/540784-arkansas-rachel-glenn-sets-womens-high-jump-ncaa-record |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310093442/https://bleacherreport.com/videos/540784-arkansas-rachel-glenn-sets-womens-high-jump-ncaa-record |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 10, 2024 |website=Bleacher Report |date=March 9, 2024 |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |title=Arkansas' Rachel Glenn Sets Women's High Jump NCAA Record}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |website=Watch Athletics |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |url=https://www.watchathletics.com/page/5196/women-high-jump-results-ncaa-indoor-track-and-field-championships-2024 |title=Women High Jump Results – NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships 2024 |date=March 9, 2024}}</ref> The height also placed her third on the US all-time list.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldathletics.org/news/report/williams-ramsden-neugebauer-2024-ncaa-indoor-championships |website=World Athletics |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |title=Williams, Ramsden and Neugebauer among winners at NCAA Indoor Championships |date=March 10, 2024}}</ref>
At the 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Glenn finished third in the 400m hurdles and 13th in the high jump.<ref>{{cite web |last=Mulkeen |first=John |date=June 8, 2024 |title=Pryce, Long and Jones impress in sprints at NCAA Championships |url=https://worldathletics.org/news/report/ncaa-championships-2024-pryce-long-jones-valby |accessdate=June 8, 2024 |website=World Athletics}}</ref>
She competed in the high jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.watchathletics.com/page/5823/women-s-high-jump-results-paris-olympic-games-2024-athletics |website=Watch Athletics |accessdate=December 28, 2024 |title=Women's high jump Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics |date=August 4, 2024}}</ref>
==Personal life== From Southern California, Glenn signed a NIL contract with the WWE’s Next in Line class of 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.on3.com/teams/south-carolina-gamecocks/news/south-carolina-track-and-field-star-rachel-glenn-inks-unique-nil-opportunity-with-wwe/ |title=Gamecock Track and Field Star Rachel Glenn inks unique NIL opportunity with WWE |first=Joe |last=Macheca |accessdate=March 10, 2024 |date=June 7, 2022 |website=on3.com}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{World Athletics}} * {{USATF|new_id=rachel-glenn}} * {{Team USA|new_id=rachel-glenn}} * {{Olympics.com|rachel-glenn}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20240730150141/https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/rachel-glenn_4979553 Rachel Glenn] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, [https://paris2024.rtve.es/es/paris-2024/atleta/rachel-glenn_4979553 alternate link]) * {{Instagram|name=Rachel Symone Glenn}}
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