26 Facts About DeeDee Trotter

DeeDee Trotter placed 5th in the same event in 2004.

DeeDee Trotter is currently a brand ambassador for international company Education First, and a global motivational speaker.

DeeDee Trotter was born in Twenty Nine Palms, California, on December 8,1982.

DeeDee Trotter grew up in Decatur, Georgia, graduating from Cedar Grove High School in 2001.

DeeDee Trotter was a member of both the track and basketball teams, helping to lead the basketball team in her senior year to an undefeated season on home court.

DeeDee Trotter was mainly a basketball player in high school, and took up track-and-field as a second sport under the encouragement of those who saw her running on the court.

DeeDee Trotter earned a track-and-field scholarship to the University of Tennessee, and was forced to turn away from basketball and focus solely on running.

DeeDee Trotter still holds the Tennessee record time of 50.0s.

DeeDee Trotter graduated from the university with a major in Sociology.

DeeDee Trotter later trained under coach Caryl Smith Gilbert, who continued to train Trotter after her graduation.

DeeDee Trotter became the first woman to turn professional as a track-and-field athlete coming out of the University of Tennessee before graduation, turning pro in her junior year.

DeeDee Trotter competed at the 2003 IAAF World Athletics Championship in France, running in the 400m, where she qualified for the semi-finals.

DeeDee Trotter placed 5th overall in the 400 metres with a personal best time of 50.00s.

DeeDee Trotter ran first, with a lead leg time of 49.19 seconds.

In 2005 and 2006, DeeDee Trotter repeated as gold medalist at the USA Indoor Championships.

DeeDee Trotter was running with a broken bone chip in her left leg, the result of an errant car door closing on her two months ago.

Still, in 2010 during the Reebok Boston Indoor Games DeeDee Trotter tripped near the beginning of the race, but was able to recover her stride and eventually place first in the 400m event despite the misstep.

DeeDee Trotter stated after the race that nothing like that had ever happened to her, but her first instinct was 'as long as I'm not on the ground, just keep running'.

DeeDee Trotter is a multi-time IAAF Diamond League silver and bronze medalist.

In 2013 DeeDee Trotter became a volunteer assistant coach in the sprints for the USC Trojans track and field team.

In 2014, DeeDee Trotter dissolved her non-profit organization Test Me I'm Clean and launched a new non-profit entitled Running For The People.

In 2020, DeeDee Trotter traveled to Japan as a Sports Envoy for the US State Department's Sports Diplomacy Office.

DeeDee Trotter is the founder of Test Me I'm Clean, a charity dedicated to combating the abuse of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.

Those that support the organization can identify themselves with a white and red rubber armband, which DeeDee Trotter herself wore during her 2012 bronze medal race.

DeeDee Trotter was inspired to found the charity in 2006, after overhearing a conversation on an airplane where the participants were convinced that all elite athletes were on steroids, which she took exception to.

DeeDee Trotter was one of the founding athletes of Project Believe, in which twelve athletes volunteered for frequent random out-of-competition drug testing.