I'm going to introduce our guest, Coach Curtis Fry, the head coach of Man and Women's

Track and Field at the University of South Carolina, the man to meet the legend, a national

championship winning coach, Paul LaFamma, I don't know how many Olympians you've coached,

how many champions, but your resume is obviously very expensive and I actually ran for Coach

Fry as the University of South Carolina and I'm going to say he was my motivation to actually

becoming a head coach. So yeah, anyway, Coach Fry, you know, this is a track and field

podcasts, but we're not really, you know, it doesn't necessarily have to be about track

and field, you know, and I talk and work out to things like that. I want to just hear about

your journey and how you became a head coach in the first place, you know, the things that

you've had to overcome, you know, especially being a black man and you've been highly successful

and I just want to hear how everything came together for you.

It wasn't intentional. I really, coaching was not what I originally wanted to do. I really

wanted to be a person that went to West Point and go on in the military because my role

models were my uncles and my dad, my day-to-day hard work guy, that had a nine grade education

that my mother got back to do a GED because she was a high school graduate and went on

the college with me. My mom was in class with me at a community college. She was a lady

that everyone said, don't get a class with that old lady because she misses up the curve.

At 53 years old, my mother graduated.

I heard from where my mother was because that was the person that was talking about when

I was just trying to just get through. I didn't want to be an 18-year-old having fun and

sometimes taking a car and going over to the high school to meet my girlfriend who later

became my wife. I made it through Juco. I became a student and I didn't get to West Point

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