Wichita, KS
Has the tattoo “Chase Your Dreams” across his chest. He got it after he was bumped out of medal contention on the last corner in a race at the world junior inline championships in 2013
Tanner Worley grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and became a very successful junior inline skater, skating competitively since he was 10 years old.
Worley represented the United States at multiple junior and senior world inline championships for a decade and was a world junior silver medalist in the 500m.
Before the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, Worley took advantage of a program that brought some of the top U.S. inline men and women to Salt Lake City to train on ice.
Worley on the transition: “People that skate or watch inline tend to think that ice and inline are the exact same thing, but I am here to tell you it is not. You have to be able to tell yourself that you are okay with sucking and being the worst – like I was the best on inline for so long and to come back down to being the worst on ice and trying to work my way up.. It was a humbling experience, but it was one that I enjoyed. Coming from the top and working your way up to the top just makes you hungrier to be the best again in a different sport.”
