The former Agoura High high school sensation overcame depression, injuries and doubters on her way to the gold medal in Paris.
Tara Davis-Woodhall reacts after winning the women’s long jump and the gold medal during track and field at Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis on Thursday, August 8, 2024. Tara Davis-Woodhall reacts after winning the women’s long jump and the gold medal during track and field at Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis on Thursday, August 8, 2024.
Tara Davis-Woodhall poses for pictures with Jasmine Moore after winning the women’s long jump and the gold medal during track and field at Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis on Thursday, August 8, 2024. Tara Davis-Woodhall, of the United States, celebrates after competing in the women’s long jump final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. Tara Davis-Woodhall reacts after winning the women’s long jump and the gold medal during track and field at Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis on Thursday, August 8, 2024.
Davis-Woodhall realized a dream she had since she was a little girl, a dream that had become an Olympian burden when it became an expectation of many others in the sport when she was still just a teenager. She did it by dominating the final from the opening round. Davis-Woodhall set the national high school long jump record and won the World Youth Championships at Agoura. In her final State meet she won the 100-meter hurdles, long jump and triple jump.
“So much happened there,” Davis-Woodhall said referring to Georgia. “That’s where my depression really started. My parents were getting a divorce. The fires that were happening in California were close to home. A lot of my friends were having to leave, evacuate. My mom was there alone.
An even bigger deal for Kyprianou, Davis said, was her admission that she was seeing a therapist to deal with her depression. “Getting to my lowest point in my life. Not leaving my room for a week. And just being super sad. I had the choice to become happy. You have the choice to choose joy. You have the choice to be anyone you want in the world. And until you take that next step, until you tell yourself it’s OK to be happy or it’s OK to do these things you’ve dreamed of that’s when I saw the light again. There is life out there to be lived.
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