Tara Davis-Woodhall Is Nonetheless ‘Using the Wave’ of Olympic Gold (Unique)

Tara Davis-Woodhall not often slows down.

Because the 25-year-old observe and subject star — who took house gold within the girls’s lengthy leap on the Paris Olympics this summer season — prepares for the beginning of a brand new season, Davis-Woodhall tells PEOPLE she’s nonetheless “using the wave” of her Olympic win.

“I am everywhere, in truth,” says Davis-Woodhall, who introduced her collaboration with shoe model Tecovas for a particular launch of their well-liked Sadie and Daisy boots in gold on Nov. 7.

“So this week, I am nonetheless using the wave, however now that it is time for the season to start once more, I believe there’s a bit bit of hysteria round that,” says the Olympian.

Davis-Woodhall says her anxiousness manifests into “overwhelming emotions,” and whereas it is actually “thrilling” for her to be kicking off a brand new season, “it is nerve-wracking,” she admits.

Months after her gold medal win, Davis-Woodhall — whose husband Hunter Woodhall additionally introduced house a gold medal this summer season within the 400-meter T62 race on the Paralympics — says she nonetheless hasn’t gotten used to her new title as an Olympic champ.

“It is nonetheless so loopy to see an image of me with a gold medal round my neck, or going to occasions and them saying Tara Woodhall, the Olympic gold champion. It is simply nonetheless so freaking bizarre.”

Davis-Woodhall can be nonetheless deciding on a extra everlasting place for her gold medal, which at present lives within the Olympian’s purse. “Yeah, it goes all over the place with me,” she tells PEOPLE. “I am certain it is going to have a house, a devoted house in our workplace or one thing, however proper now she simply lives in my purse.”

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The couple, who tied the knot at a Texas winery in Oct. 2022, lately moved to Kansas. Davis-Woodhall says they made the transfer after their mutual coach took a job at Kansas State College. “Hunter and I believed it was finest to comply with him and proceed our observe profession as a result of we need to go to L.A. 2028 [Olympics].”

Davis-Woodhall says the change of surroundings has been “good” and she or he’s having fun with the slower tempo of life in Kansas. “I just like the nation, I like not being in an enormous metropolis — it isn’t my factor.”

As she appears to be like forward to 2025, the Texas-born athlete says she’s engaged on a brand new aim. “It’s going to be to simply embrace the sensation of being the newly reigning Olympic champion, and simply going out and leaping and competing with simply the enjoyment of that.”

Now that she’s gained gold, Davis-Woodhall says, “There’s nothing actually hanging over my head anymore of like, ‘I should be this, I must have this.’ 2025 ought to simply be a 12 months of rising and rebuilding of what we did this 12 months.”