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Brittney Reese: Decade of Long Jump Gold
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Brittney Reese: Decade of Long Jump Gold Keeping Track
Today Alysia, Ro and I catch up then Alysia and I talk to USA Long Jump Legend Brittney Reese. She is a 7 time World Champ gold medalist , 2012 Olympic champion and 2016 silver medalist, and indoor American record holder. We talk to her about her pandemic year, training at the Olympic Training Center, life with her son, how she is giving back to the kids in her Mississippi home town and what she has planned for the future.
0-4: Ro and Alysia catch up-juggling kids during Covid and working for yourself: saying yes to too much
5- post election emotions
10-Hour Track record
14-Intro Brittney Reese (alysia is pumping -Mom at work!)
2012 gold
Brittney is legendary athlete, and opening herself up more as a shy but impactful presence in the community.
17: Brittney Reese Interview
Based at Oly Training center in Chula Vista-what changes w Covid:
Brittneys Fam: son Alex is 13
Balancing training and him/distance learning/his sports schedule etc
21-Future plans: Just got her Masters in entrepreneurship
22- we need more meet opportunities in USA
âI donât think we have enough meets to meet those needs for everybody outside sprinting and distanceâ
26: she gives back to the sport and her community In many ways-
âThe end goal for me is to be a track coach. I want to give back to the sport thatâs allowed me to be successful .. but I also want to take that knowledge and go home (to Mississippi) and start my own track clubâ
30: Making the big push for these last 2 years of her career
31- wants to support her son as he gets more seriously into sports
32- what things are like right now in training
35-Being seasoned and marinated!
36- does her son ever come to practice?
37: Background on how she came to adopt him
43: doping: robs athletes of money, exposure and when itâs good people that miss out it hurts (link her op Ed)- side note, the Rodchenkov Anti Doping Act recently passed in Senate
46: life at the Olympic Training Center
(Drug tests once a month)- whatâs practice like
48: can she dunk though?
WNBA plans?
(Link to league pass!)we got ours!
52: On trying to put herself out there more to affect change and reach the kids, engage in community
56âI could care less about the spotlight…but now Iâm trying to open up a little bit more and give back a little bit more and I know that the youth is where it starts, which is why I have camps back home, which is why I want my own track club- I invest in the youth that’s my thing, theyâre who is going to carry the sport
57: why be closed off as an athlete? Protect your zone and mental focus
