2015 Track:
Indoor: Placed fourth in the 400 meters with a time of 57.56 at the Orange & Purple Classic … Helped the 4×400-meter relay team to three top-10 finishes all season including third at the Samford University Invitational (3:45.64) … Posted a career-best time of 2:19.23 in the 800 meters at the Doc Hale VT Elite Meet. Outdoor: Logged 10 top-10 finishes, including a first-place showing in the 4x400m relay (3:44.47) at the Yellow Jacket Invite … Placed second in the 400-meter hurdles at the Alabama Relays and the Georgia Spec Towns Invite.
2014 Track:
Indoor: Helped the 4×400-meter relay team to a fifth-place finish at the Vanderbilt Invite with a time of 3:52.03 … Improved that time in the same event to 3:49.18 for seventh place at the Samford Invite … Ran a leg of the 4×400-meter relay that placed ninth with a time of 3:48.09 at the ACC Championships. Outdoor: Placed third in the 400-meter hurdles at the Alabama Relays and the Yellow Jacket Invite … Set a personal-best in the 400-meter hurdles at the Yellow Jacket Invite with a time of 59.44 … Logged 12 top-10 finishes through the season … Took second in the 400-meter hurdles at the Georgia Invite.
2013 Track:
Indoor: Ran in the 200 meters in a season-best time of 25.86 at the Auburn Invite … Finished the 400 meters in 57.23 at the Meyo Invite … Helped the 4×400-meter relay team to ninth place (3:49.88) at the ACC Championships. Outdoor: Won the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 1:02.77 at the Georgia Relays … Improved that time to 1:00.03 for fourth place at the ACC Championships … Part of the 4×400-meter relay team that took third (3:50.65) at the Yellow Jacket Invite.
2012 Track:
Indoor: Finished first for Tech in the 400 meters (57.49) at the Rod McCravy Invite … Placed sixth in the 400 meters with a season-best time of 56.87 at the VT Elite Invite. Outdoor: Placed fifth in the 400-meter hurdles with a season-best time of 1:00.87 at the UCF Invite … Took seventh in the 400 meters with a time of 56.95 and ran the 200 meters in 25.54 at the Yellow Jacket Invite … Helped the DMR to a fifth place finish (12:05.67) at the Florida Relays … Took 16th in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:01.34 at the prestigious Penn Relays.
High School:
A four-year letterwinner under Coach Nicole Hudson at Alpharetta High School … The 2011 Region Champion in the 300-meter hurdles, the 400-meter dash, and the 4×400-meter relay … Also won the 400-meter dash in her junior season … Nationally ranked in the 300-meter hurdles and 400-meter dash.
Personal:
Full name is Anthea Ama Larbi … Born on Sept. 18, 1993 in Silver Spring, Md. … Parents are Jonathan and Barbara … Has a twin brother, Kwame … Volunteered at her aunt’s daycare in Ghana for a couple of summers during high school … Started running track when she was 12 years old because people always told her she was fast … Majors in psychology.
