Hi, I'm Olympian Kerry Tellelson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.

Today I'm interviewing Corey McGee.

Corey is a professional runner for New Balance and has competed for the U.S. on two different

senior world championship teams and also one youth world championship team.

When in college at the University of Florida, she was the NCAA runner-up,

All-American multiple times, and won six SEC championships.

She started running when she was in the sixth grade and has loved it ever since.

In this episode, we talk about winning 22 state championships when she lived with her parents and three

sisters in Mississippi, her move to Florida to compete in college, and how now she lives and trains in

Boulder, Colorado, with one of the most prestigious running groups in the industry. She has joined

world champion Emma Coburn to be trained under Joe Bosshard and the rest of the group with hopes of

wearing the red, white, and blue next fall and in 2020. Corey likes to win, and she did a lot of that

in her career already. She started with those 22 state championships in Mississippi, and we talk a lot

about that and how she got started in the sport overseas when her dad was in the FBI,

and how she and I met while I was at the Olympic Games in Athens.

She has tons of Southern charm and a smile that lights up any room, and a laugh that is super contagious. And I think after listening to this, you will feel like Corey is one of your

new best friends, and this interview will make you root for her even more.

Let's get after it. All right, Corey, thanks for joining us on C-Tolly Run. Yeah, I'm so happy.

I'm really excited. I've been tuning in and I listened to Abby's little podcast a week ago.

So I'm so, I'm excited to be a part of it. Well, Abby is an old teammate of yours in Boston, and she just is so lovely. But you are too, like, I swear, I mean, I know you a little bit from Foot Locker and just, obviously, just through the running world. But every time I see you, I'm like, I feel like we've been best friends in my whole life because you're just so happy all the time and so fun. And then I watch you on Instagram.

And it's just like, oh, I love her. She just seems so nice. Yeah. Well, it's funny you say that

because I think we made this connection maybe last year, but you have known me since 2004,

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