From 1959 on, Earlene closely associated with the Tennessee State University 'Tigerbelles' whose coach Ed Temple was also the Head Coach of the U.S. Olympic Women's Track and Field Team.
Coach Temple has led the team to 34 national titles, and eight Tigerbelles have been inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, including Wilma Rudolph Edith McGuire Wyomia Tyus and Chandra Cheeseborough, the current Women's Coach at TSU.
She was a two-time Olympian, and a Tigerbelle, the name of the Tennessee State University women's track and field program, under Head Coach Ed Temple.
She graduated from Bayside High School, and then went to Tennessee State University to run under Hall of Fame coach Ed Temple, one of the first U.S. women to receive an athletic scholarship.
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