Margarette Matthews, track and field: A track and field star (1955-1959) who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics The captain of the TSU Tigerbelles, captured the bronze medal in the 4×100 meters. She was first American woman to leap a record 20 feet in the broad jump. At the 1956 Olympic trials in Washington, D.C. she set an American record of 19 feet, 9½ inches.