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HBCU Track & Field excellence continued in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal<\/em> Canada. A new name emerged however that would dominate his event for years to come.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HBCU Track & Field in Montreal 1976<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Tennessee State Tigerbelles under head coach Ed Temple <\/a>continued their incredible Olympic story as Kathy McMillan<\/a> took home a silver medal in the long jump in Montreal. North Carolina Central, still under their mentor Dr. Leroy Walker<\/a>, placed 110-meter hurdler Charles Foster<\/a> in the finals where he finished fourth, just out of a medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Montreal was the stage for the introduction of one of the greatest Olympic and world champions of all time in Morehouse\u2019s Edwin Moses<\/a>. The Dayton, Ohio native entered Morehouse on an engineering scholarship and used that discipline to create one of the most amazing records in the history of track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Moses shall lead them<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Because Morehouse did not have a track, Moses prepared at area high schools for the Montreal Games. He went on to break the Olympic and world records in winning the men\u2019s 400 meter hurdles gold medal. After earning his undergraduate degree in physics, Moses applied his training to fine-tune his athletic performance in the hurdles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1977 to May 1987, Moses won an incredible 122 consecutive 400 meter hurdles races. The U. S. boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow<\/em> prevented his quest to repeat but four years later with the streak still intact, Moses captured the gold medal again in the 1984 Los Angeles<\/em> games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edwin Moses clears the hurdles in one of his 122 consecutive 400 meters hurdles race wins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 1987 his streak was broken. He still was able to capture a bronze medal in the 1988 Olympic games in Seoul<\/em>, South Korea<\/em>. His Olympic appearances in 1976, \u201884, and \u201888 kept the Southern Intercollegiate Athletics Conference\u2019s streak alive of having an athlete from the conference compete in every Olympics since World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prairie View A&M\u2019s Fred Newhouse<\/a> also made his Olympic debut in Montreal. He blazed to a silver medal in the 400 meters and was a member of the 4×400 meter relay team that took home the gold medal. Prairie View\u2019s Deborah Sapenter<\/a> also medaled as a member of the women\u2019s 4×400 meter relay team that won silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also missing out on the 1980 Olympics because of the U. S. boycott were Tennessee State Tigerbelles Brenda Morehead (Campbell), Chandra Cheeseborough (Guice)<\/a>, Madeline Manning<\/a> (Mims) and Kathy McMillan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HBCU Track & Field in Los Angeles 1984: Cheeseborough takes LA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cheeseborough came back in 1984 in Los Angeles to establish new Olympic standards. She became the first female to capture gold medals as a member of both relay teams (4×100 and 4×400) in the same Olympics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chandra Cheeseborough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cheeseborough-Guice, now the very successful women\u2019s track and field coach at Tennessee State, also won a silver medal in the 400 meter dash in Los Angeles. Grace Jackson, an Alabama A&M product<\/a>, competed for her native Jamaica in 1984, \u201888 and \u201892. She won a silver medal in the 400 meters in 1988 in Seoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HBCU Track & Field in Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992: Soul to Seoul<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Danette Young<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Jearl Miles<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Starting with the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea, Alabama A&M\u2019s Danette Young<\/a> (Stone) and Jearl Miles (Clark)<\/a> have carried the black college banner into Olympic competition and brought home medals. In 1988, Young was a member of the gold medal women\u2019s 4×100 meter relay team. She competed in preliminary rounds and yielded to 200 meter world record holder Florence Griffith-Joyner in the finals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Barcelona in the 1992 Games<\/em>, Young showed her versatility grabbing a spot on the silver-medal winning 4×400 meter relay team. Miles also brought home a silver medal from Barcelona as a member of the same relay team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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