Tennessee
State's Cheeseborough Repeats as OVC Coach of the Year
March 4, 2003
NASHVILLE --- Tennessee State's Chandra Cheeseborough has added
yet another honor to her list of outstanding accomplishments
by being named the 2003 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Track
and Field "Coach of the Year."
It marks the second straight year that Cheeseborough has received
the indoor honor for leading the Tigerbelles to the OVC Championship.
In addition, the Tigerbelles' coach has received OVC "Coach
of the Year," for Outdoor Track and Field each of the past
two years, giving her a total of four OVC "Coach of the
Year" awards.
The Tigerbelles have captured a total of four OVC titles under
Cheeseborough's guidance. The Tigerbelles will be aiming for
their third consecutive outdoor title when the team hosts the
2003 OVC Outdoor Track and Field Championships in May.
Cheeseborough, one of the standouts in both TSU and United
States track and field history, had led the storied TSU program
to its recent success. 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 championship.
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.
