Born and raised in Elyria, Ohio just west of Cleveland Tianna Madison was a nine-time state champion, tied with Jesse Owens for most state titles. She earned a full academic and athletic scholarship to the University of Tennessee where she was a 2x South Eastern Conference Champion (SEC) and a 2x NCAA champion. Tianna is also a two-time Olympian and three-time Olympic gold medalist. She won her first gold medal by leading off the world record-setting women’s 4x100m relay team at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, while also taking fourth in the women’s 100-meters in London.

Four years later at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Madison added two more gold medals to her collection. She set a new personal best with a mark of 7.17m/23-6 to win the women’s long jump competition and made it back-to-back Olympic titles by again leading off the women’s 4x100m Olympic champion relay team.

Madison is also a three-time World Champion in the long jump, taking home the title at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, and again at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, China. She also won the 2006 World Indoor Championship in the long jump in Moscow, Russia. She also has earned three bronze medals at world championships during her career.

In addition to her successes on the field Tianna is a trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher, advocate for various social justice initiatives, and has a social work degree from the University of Tennessee and now uses the full range of her education as a track and field coach at San Jose State University.

She is passionate about using her lived experience and education to help others become high- performing individuals and teams while safeguarding their mental health.

Tianna speaks in front of both domestic and international audiences. Most notably a panel during Super Bowl weekend on behalf of women in sports, the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta Georgia, in Oslo Norway, for a SHE Conference on the topic of resilience before hundreds of attendees, and at the Cannes Lion Festival France on a panel for disparities in healthcare and the black maternity health crisis. Tianna is a passionate advocate for Black maternal health, driven by her personal experience. She nearly died during childbirth, and her son was born at just 26 weeks, requiring 73 days of care in the NICU.

Tianna is a credible thought leader having been called upon by the United States Olympic Committee to discuss racial bias on a year long committee in addition to being published in the Yoga Journal, The Telegraph(UK), The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Irish Times, and Newsweek on a variety of subjects. She is also author of her riveting memoir Survive and Advance a tale of a life spent running.

Now that Tianna is retired from athletics, she channels the same energy, lived experience, and social work background into making impactful change in the communities she is a part of. Tianna is dedicated to leveraging her platform and expertise to advocate for equitable healthcare, social justice, and mental health awareness. Her commitment to creating positive change and uplifting others remains unwavering as she continues to inspire and lead by example.