Chandra Cheeseborough | A Running Legacy

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Though rarely talked about today, the Tigerbelles, Tennessee State University’s women’s track and field team, is one of the most accomplished sports clubs in the state’s history. During the reign of legendary coach Ed Temple, the all-Black team produced 40 Olympic athletes who took home 23 medals — many while living in the Jim Crow South pre-Title IX. One of those barrier-breaking sprinters is Olympic gold medalist and TSU track and field director Chandra Cheeseborough, or Coach Cheese. On this episode, she recounts stories of her time as a Tigerbelle and shares how Ed Temple impacted her as an athlete and highly successful coach. She also tells us how she’s keeping the history of the club alive and shares advice for other athletes hoping to leave a mark.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Joe Holder, entrepreneur, plant-based eater, and co-founder of System of Service.
0:06.4	I also love exercise snacks.
0:08.6	And I'm a Nike trainer too.
0:11.0	You're listening to trained, body, and mind.
0:14.0	Let's advance in training and in life.
0:16.6	Oh, hello.
0:18.4	Welcome to trained body and mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic fitness.
0:23.3	I'm your host, Jacqueline Byer.
0:25.6	Each episode I connect with the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,
0:30.1	movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.
0:33.2	What we like to call the five facets of fitness.
0:35.6	Today, I'm talking with Shandra Cheesebro, one of the fastest sprinters in the world during
0:40.5	the 1970s and 80s, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist.
0:47.6	Heart looks like to me is stepping up to the plate when no one wants to step up.
0:52.4	I'll do a coach.
0:54.1	And with down, put me in.
0:56.1	Yeah, that's hard to me.
0:58.2	You can't coach it.
0:59.2	They got to have it.
1:00.4	I rather have a person that have a big heart and will outwork a talented person sometimes
1:06.8	any day.
1:10.6	Shandra is not only one of Nike's early track and field athletes.
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