Catana Rhoda Johnson Starks (December 30, 1944 – September 6, 2020) was an American athletics coach.

[1] She earned a doctorate from Tennessee State in 1989,[2] with a dissertation titled "An analysis of three methods of teaching physical fitness and their effect on strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance" (1989).

[3] Starks coached high school swimming and basketball in Saginaw, Michigan in the 1970s.

[13][14][15] In 2014, Starks was inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame.

[12] Catana Rhoda Johnson married Alfred Donnie Starks in 1964 and had a son.