TnSU Track Coach selected for U.S. World
Cup Team
September 8, 2006
Chandra Cheeseborough, Tennessee State University
women’s track coach, has been selected
as an assistant coach for the USA Track & Field’s
(USATF) women’s team for the 2006 IAAF
World Cup.
 The 2006 World Cup will be run at the Athen’s
Olympic Stadium in Athens Greece, September
16-17, 2006. Cheeseborough will focus on the
areas of 200 and 400-meter runners.
Chandra Cheeseborough, a former TSU Tigerbelle,
is a standout in United States track and field
history. She leads the women’s track
and field and cross-country programs at Tennessee
State University.
She has coached the Tigerbelles track program
to a pair of consecutive Ohio Valley Conference
Outdoor Track Championship and an OVC Indoor
championship as well. She is a three-time OVC
Coach of the Year.
As an athlete she was named to three United
States Olympic teams. She placed third as a
17-year old in the 100-meter dash in Montreal.
She qualified for the ill-fated 1980 Olympic
team that did not compete because of a boycott.
In 1984, at the Los Angeles games, she made
Olympic history by running a leg on two Gold
Medal Relay Teams and was the sliver medalist
in the 400-meters.
Cheeseborough emerged on the scene in 1975
at age 16, where she won a gold medal in the
200-meter dash in the Pan American Games in
a world junior record 22.77 seconds. She also
won the TAC 100-meter championships in a time
of 11.13.
She came to the Summer Track program at Tennessee
State University as a high school junior and
senior, respectively, and competed as a member
of the TSU Track Club under legendary coach
Edward S. Temple.
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