Bianca Knight comes to the Queen City with an extensive winning background as she was a gold medalist Olympian and world record holder.
The Pearl, Mississippi native is currently the Meet Director for the Mississippi Meet of Champions, held in Jackson, Mississippi. Knight helped revive the meet after over a decade of dormancy by assembling a team to make a schedule of events, marketing the meet to the media, and helping secure vendors to create a family-friendly atmosphere. Knight is also the CEO of the Bianca Knight Foundation, whose mission is to promote excellence in youth track and field sports. Her foundation helped increase awareness of disparities between low-income communities and lack of resources and offer financial support and mentorship to coaches, schools, and student-athletes.
Bianca Knight is also the owner of the digital application, BKTrackstars. This application increases access to ranking content for athletes of all levels of competition and uses the latest technology and expert input to enable performance improvement.
Prior to stepping into a coaching realm, Knight was a sprinter for the USA track and field team. In 2011, Knight won the gold medal in the 4 x 100m relay at the World Championships. In the 2012 Olympics, Knight was a part of the 4 x 100m relay team that won the gold and currently holds the world record in that event. Knight was apart of the world record quartet that included Tianna Madison, Carmelita Jeter, and track and field great Allyson Felix. She was also named the 2012 Co-Athlete of the Year by Clarion Ledger.
