In addition, Ellen gave them a honeymoon trip that paid all the costs to St. 1 She broke the record Februat the Dumanis Sports Group Prep Classic in Frisco, Texas, jumping 6.68 m ( 21 ft 10 + 3 4 in). She is the American junior record holder in the indoor long jump. (Steph Chambers / Getty Images) She really started winning and growing, her father said. Tara Davis (born May 20, 1999) is an American track and field athlete. The engagement between Tara and Hunter was featured in People Magazine, and they participated in the Ellen Show together. Tara Davis celebrates with her father, Ty Davis, and mother Rayshon Davis at the U.S. She and the hunter have their own YouTube channel It has over 320.000 subscribers and more than 615,000 Instagram followers between the two.
Tara is a member of the Texas University Athletics team and finished sixth at the Tokyo Olympics. This record was previously held by Marion Jones. Tara Davis is an athletics player from Agoura Hills and met a hunter at an indoor athletics competition.Īs a high school student, she set a California record with a 22-foot-1-inch long jump. While in college, he produced a TikTok video and eventually appeared in The Ellen DeGeneres, where she handed him a $ 20,000 check. His 400-meter personal best is 46.22 seconds. In Tokyo, he won the bronze medal at the 2020 Paralympics at 400 meters. The hunter went all-American three times with a 4 x 400 relay while attending Arkansas. Received a tee Division 1 Track Scholarship. Ĭreated in 2009, The Bowerman, named after legendary former coach of the Oregon Ducks and co-founder of Nike, Bill Bowerman, is presented annually by the USTFCCCA to the most outstanding male and female collegiate track and field athletes in the nation and has been called by some "The Heisman Trophy of Track and Field.After the New York Times published an article asking why this top high school runner didn’t have a college scholarship offer, Hunter received offers from all over the country, signed Arkansas Razor Bucks, and was the first double ampoo in history. Fans may vote up to five times a day during the one-week window at.
Fans also collectively have one vote, and the USTFCCCA announced the online voting for fans will open on Wednesday, July 14 at 3 p.m. The winners will be determined by voting by a select panel of national and regional media personnel, track & field statisticians, NCAA collegiate administrators, past Bowerman winners and presidents of affiliated organizations. Winners of The Bowerman Award will be announced on Friday, December 17 during the annual USTFCCCA Convention in Orlando, Florida. She is joined by fellow finalists Tyra Gittens and Athing Mu of Texas A&M University. She is the only Longhorn woman ever to clear 22-feet, and surpassed 23-feet three times this year, including her Collegiate Record mark at the Texas Relays.ĭavis is the third Longhorn to be named as a finalist, joining two-time finalist and 2016 winner Courtney Okolo and 2009 finalist Destinee Hooker. This year, she posted four of the top six jumps in collegiate outdoor history and now holds the top 13 outdoor long jump efforts in school history. Olympic Trials, Davis had five legal jumps of over 22-feet, finishing second at the trials with a mark of 7.04m/23-1.25 to become the first Longhorn to earn a Team USA Olympic bid in the women's long jump. She was also a finalist for the 2021 Honda Sport Award for Track & Field and Texas' nominee for Big 12 Female Athlete of the Year.Īt last month's U.S.
Davis is a five-time USTFCCCA All-American, a four-time selection to The Bowerman Watch List and tied the Big 12 record with three Women's Outdoor Athlete of the Week honors (3/31, 4/28, 5/5) in 2021. In addition, she established both the indoor and outdoor collegiate records in the event, setting the women's indoor collegiate record with an NCAA title-winning jump of 6.93m/22-9 at the NCAA Indoor Championships, then breaking Jackie Joyner-Kersee's 36-year-old outdoor collegiate record with a mark of 7.14m/23-5.25 at the Texas Relays.Ī native of Agoura Hills, Calif., she helped lead Texas to the Big 12 Indoor and Outdoor Championship crowns and was a Big 12 Outdoor Champion in both the 100m hurdles and long jump. She captured both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championship titles in the long jump this season, becoming the first woman in Longhorn history to win an NCAA Outdoor long jump title, and the first Longhorn man or woman to sweep the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor crowns. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.ĭavis had a historic, record-setting 2021 season in the long jump. AUSTIN, Texas – University of Texas Track & Field standout and 2021 Olympian Tara Davis has been selected as one of three finalists for The Bowerman Award, track and field's highest individual honor, as announced Tuesday by the U.S.