All right, good evening and welcome to the Home Stretch for Agent Durant and tonight we have another special guest.

American long jumper, one of the best to ever do it. Brittany Reese. Welcome Brittany.

Welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited. Hey, thanks for joining me. I'm excited too.

Welcome to the Home Stretch Podcast. This is where we talk to exceptional athletes, track-of-field athletes, and you know, world champions, Olympic medalist like yourself. And I just want to hear about your story.

You know, the things that you've had to overcome to achieve the success that you had a little bit about you before we get started for those who aren't average track fans.

Seven time world champion in the long jump Olympic gold medalist Olympic silver medalist. Of course, you are NCAA champion.

You are indoor American record holder and a personal best in the long jump is 731, which is ridiculous. I mean, it's

Feet in 11 inches. That's almost 24 feet. Yes, that's crazy. That's crazy.

Close, close, close. Yeah, one of the best long jumpers ever, one of the best athletes, period. I mean, look, and when I look at it, you have what the ninth best mark, but it's like five of those are from the 80s. So I'm kind of like, and like the other four like Russian. So I'm like,

We don't really too much. No, but so in my eyes, you're probably the best.

So so how did you get started with track? What got you into it?

So the way I got started in track was I think I was in the seventh grade. It was more so of me following other friends.

Because I was playing basketball and a lot of my friends decided they wanted to run track. And I was like, well, I do a two since I'm going to do it.

My grandfather at the time was big on sports. So he thought it was a great idea for me to go out there. Now, when I think I had my first practice and we were running. And I was like, yeah, I'm the same for me.

So my grandpa at the time brought me right on back. So he's like, dog, you know, quit. He's going to be good for you for best part, helping stay in shape. So I just stuck to it after that.

So, oh, so it was so for you at the time, it was just like, okay, let me do it. But it was still mainly about basketball basketball.

So best ball at the time was my first love. And you know, basketball season ends once basketball season and tracks, he starts. So for me, it was just more so just doing something and then trying to stay busy, basically.

Okay, okay. And so you're doing track, you're doing basketball. When did it start shifting to lie? Okay, I think track is going to be the main one.

It didn't it didn't really shift for me until so I went to a community college and for basketball. I played two years of community college. It didn't shift until after a community college.

Basically, yeah, because I do both the whole time. So you were good at both through high school. Yeah, you're in your high school's Hall of Fame, of course.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I was good at both. Yeah, I was good at both. And I went to a community college to run to play basketball. And basically, it was my last year of playing basketball. I could have left. I did sign a sign of track scholarship out of high school.

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