Career Highlights:
Four-time USA Outdoor champion ('06, '08, '09, '11); 2007
NACAC champion; 2004 NACAC runner-up; 2004 NCAA runner-up;
2002 NCAA Outdoor SP champion; 2001 USA Junior SP and HT
champion
After
a second-place finish at the 2010 USA Outdoor Championships,
Cosby regained her spot atop the ranks of American hammer
throwers with a victory at the 2011 Championships. With the
win, she earned a spot on her third World Outdoor team.
Cosby, who was also the 2009 US champion, won her the 2008
U.S. Olympic Team Trials, topping the field with an Olympic
Trials record throw of 70.72m/232-0 and followed it up with
her third in winning the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships.
Cosby claimed her first national title at the 2006 AT&T USA
Outdoor Championships when she upended the American record
holder and defending champion, Erin Gilreath. Cosby threw a
personal-best 70.78m/232-3…In 2003, Cosby continued to
improve with her fourth-place finish at USA Indoors, and by
setting a personal best in the hammer throw of 61.15m/200-7.
Placed second in shot put with a mark of 15.33m/50-3.50
(prep personal best) at the 2000 USA Junior
Championships…four-time Los Angeles City shot put champion
(1997-2000)… placed second in shot put at the 2000
California State Championships (14.95m/49-0.75) and Golden
West Invitational (14.86m/48-9)…placed ninth at World Junior
Championships in Santiago, Chile with a best of
14.93m/48-11.75…at the 2001 U. S. Junior meet, Cosby became
the first athlete in history to win both the shot put
(16.68m/54-8.75, personal-best, No. 7 in school history, No.
8 on the World Junior list, No. 9 on the 2001 U. S. list)
and hammer throw (55.72m/182-10, personal-best, #5 in school
history)…voted #3 prep shot putter in the nation in 2000 by
Track & Field News, earning All-American status…Cosby serves
as the volunteer throws coach for the Bruins.
2011:USA Outdoor champion (71.33m/234-0)... 1st at
Oxy Invite (72.65m/238-4PR).
2010: 2nd at USA Outdoors
(71.24m/233-9).
2009: USA Outdoor champion
(72.04m/236-4PR)...3rd at Nike Prefonatine Classic
(70.68m/231-10)...1st at Oxy Invite (71.15m/233-5).
2008: Olympic Trials champion (70.72m/232-0)...no mark
in Olympic Games qualifying...1st at JJK Invitational
(67.79m/222-5)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best
of 70.72m/232-0.
2007: 3rd at USA Outdoors (68.21m/223-9)…8th in qual. at
World Outdoors (67.90m.222-9)...NACAC champion
(65.15m/213-9)…1st at Westwood (68.34m/224-2)…3rd at Mt. SAC
(68.26m/223-11)…ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of
68.34m/224-2.
2006: USA Outdoor champion (70.78m/232-3)…1st at
USATF West Region Champs (69.50m/228-0)…2nd at Tucson Elite
Classic (66.87m/219-4)…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of
70.78m/232-3.
2005: 5th at USA Outdoors (66.81m/219-2)…3rd in HT
and SP at NCAA Champs…NCAA West Regional HT champion
(65.20m/213-11)…Pac-10 HT and SP champion (66.09m/216-10,
17.11m/56-1.75)…ranked #5 in the HT and #7 in the SP in the
U.S. by T&FN…bests of 66.81m/219-02, 17.63m/57-10.25.
2004: 7th at Olympic Trials (64.50m/211-7)…NACAC U23
Champs runner-up (63.70m/209-0)…NCAA Outdoor HT runner-up,
11th in SP (66.88m/219-5, 16.17m/53-0.75)…NCAA West Regional
HT champion, 3rd in SP (65.46m/214-9, 16.57m/54-4.5)…Pac-10
HT champion, 3rd in SP…ranked #8 in the U.S. in the HT by
T&FN…bests of 66.88m/219-5, 17.25m/56-7.25.
2003: 4th in shot at USA Indoors (16.51m/54-2)…2nd in
shot at Salinas (17.01m/55-9.75)…2nd in shot (16.66m/54-8)
in Seattle…4th in hammer at Home Depot invitational
(61.15m/200-7PR)…bests of 17.01m/55-9.75, 61.15m/200-7.
2002: 1st at NCAA Outdoors (17.38m/57-0.25)…did not
compete at USA Outdoors…6th at NCAA Indoors
(16.42m/53-10.5)…2nd at Seattle (16.94m/55-7PR)…ranked #3 in
U.S. by T&FN…best of 17.38m/57-0.25PR.
2001: 1st at USA Junior SP (16.68m/54-8.75) & HT
(55.72m/182-10)…bests of 16.68m/54-8.75, 55.72m/182-10.
2000: 2nd at USA Juniors (15.33m/50-3.5)…9th at World
Junior Championships…2nd at Golden West Invitational…best of
15.33m/50-3.5.
Welcome to our new web portal. Our new portal has been created to
provide a more professional presence for our clients and
an easier and more user friendly interface.
