Tara Davis-Woodhall Just Helped Tecovas Reboot One of Its Most Popular Styles — and “Of Course” It’s Gold (Exclusive)

The Olympian, who took home gold in the in the women's long jump competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics, wouldn't have it any other way

Tara Davis-Woodhall’s boots were made for winning.

When the Team USA Track and Field star scooped up the gold medal in the women’s long jump competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics, she celebrated her win in none other than a pair of custom Tecovas.

Now, the decorated athlete and the beloved cowboy boot brand are teaming up in the fashion world to launch Tecovas' popular Sadie and Daisy boots in a gold.

Davis-Woodhall and Tecovas teased the collab on Instagram just days before the official November 7th drop.

For the launch, the athlete spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about why the partnership is a natural fit.

“I grew up going to the farm with my grandpa, who has a bunch of cattle. He was always wearing his cowboy boots, and in fifth grade he got me my very first pair,” she recalls.

Her obsession with her very first pair was short-lived as her foot grew out of them in mere weeks. “I tried squeezing my foot in there for so long,” she says.

It wasn’t until she graduated college that her grandfather would gift her more. “Before Nationals he bought me a pair of boots, and they were Tecovas, which is really cool. Since then, I've adopted the lifestyle of being a cowgirl.”

Even before receiving this pair, she’d developed a love for the brand. Davis-Woodhall attended the University of Texas, which is Austin-based, as is the brand. “I'd just go in the Tecovas shop [in Austin] and look and smell — I love the smell of fresh leather.”

The athlete, who owns about seven pairs of cowboy boots now, says this partnership and gold colorway is, of course, “a little tribute to winning the gold at the Olympics.”

“How iconic is it that they're a gold pair of cowboy boots? It's just icing on a cake to finish out the 2024 year.”

To celebrate the partnership, a photoshoot was in order.

Davis-Woodhall, who just moved to Kansas from Arkansas, reached in her closet, grabbed her overalls, put her hair in two pigtails and headed to her backyard.

“I asked [husband Hunter Woodhall] to grab the camera and we we just went outside and started shooting,” she shares.

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Davis-Woodhall has always been into fashion, but it wasn’t until her junior year of college that she began to understand her personal style.

“I was wearing whatever was trending until I figured it out,” she says. That doesn’t mean her style is defined now. “I don’t really have a word for it! It’s just however I feel that day,” she explains.

“If I'm happy, I'm wearing bright colors; if I'm not in the mood to talk, I'll be wearing all black.”

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However, she’s clear on her favorite boots.

“The first time pulling them out [at Nationals] felt so natural. It was just a small blink of time, but putting on those boots and then the feeling of walking and them hitting the track, I remember it so vividly.

“I didn't know that that was going to be my future obviously, but it felt so, I don't know, monumental.”