What's up, welcome back to Kombos Over Colbrew with me, your host, Emma Abrahamson.

Today we're talking to Dylan Sorensen, who is the assistant coach at University

of North Carolina, at Georgetown University and then trained in the college recruitment program.

So the triathlon program that post-collegiates do in an attempt to qualify for the Olympics.

After a few years he began working as an assistant coach at Stanford University and now he has

moved to be an assistant coach at the

University of Carolina Chapel Hill. This episode is really thorough and it

provides kind of a detailed description on how Dylan went from athlete to triathlete to coach and his process and what it takes to

build a top Division I program and let's get straight into the episode. All right, Dylan, welcome to the podcast, excited to have you on. To start off, can we just get a little bit of a rundown of who you are and what you're about?

Absolutely. First of all, Emma, thank you very much for having me on. I'm honored to be on this this podcast convos over cold

we're actually having a I went to the store and got some cold brew I made some

cold brew last night I have it in a glass ball jar with some ice in my hand right now.

That's what I like to hear. So I tried to become prepared. Yeah, my name is Dylan Sorensen and I right now coach at the University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill and I coach our women's middle distance and distance athletes. I also

help coach Chris Miltenberg coach the men's middle distance and distance athletes and then I am in charge of all of our recruiting

for the distance runners that are obviously prospective student athletes in high school.

And well, somebody who you know really well,

Samantha Nadell, coach Nadell, as we affectionately call her.

She is, I work alongside her and she does a great job of helping me with coaching the women.

She is the best young coach in the country. There's no doubt about that.

And she's also a phenomenal recruiter. So it's been awesome awesome she was my college teammate and then I think she was your college teammate so that's where I am right now and to give you some more context about where I'm from and how I got to where I am today.

I grew up in Zionsville, Indiana, a small suburban town

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