Shinelle Proctor (born 27 June 1991) is an Anguillan sprinter and high jumper.^[1] She competed in the 60 metres event at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Her older sister is the Anguillian long-jumper Shara Proctor.^[2]

Athletics career

Proctor competed in the 60 metre indoor and 100 metre outdoor sprints, triple jump and high jump. She holds the national high jump record for Anguilla and won a bronze medal at the 2009 CARIFTA Games.^[3] In 2010, she was part of a three person team representing Anguilla at the 2010 CARIFTA Games, alongside sprinter Zharnel Hughes and long jumper Ricio Welch.^[4] The next year, Proctor competed in the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in South Korea.^[5] She competed in the 100 metres, however she did not make it out of her heat, finishing fourth in Heat 1.^[6] Switching disciplines again, she competed in the high jump for Anguilla at the Commonwealth Games in the 2014 Games in Glasgow, Scotland.^[7] She finished joint-last in the qualifying round.^[8] Proctor also competed at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the 60 metre but failed to get out of the heat.^[9]

Personal life

Proctor was born in The Valley, Anguilla.^[10] She is the sister of long jumper Shara Proctor, who has represented Anguilla, Great Britain and England.^[2] Proctor underwent secondary schooling at Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School in The Valley and then attended university in the United States at the University of Illinois on an athletics scholarship.^[4][10] In 2012, she transferred to the University of Missouri in order to gain her degree in Parks Recreation and Tourism.^[11]

References

External links

• Illinois Fighting Illini bio