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“My goal is to represent Canada in the Olympics,” said track and field team captain Korey Brown. His coach believes that his discipline, dedication and speed will get him to the next the Olympics.Brown isn’t a typical 25-year-old who not only loves to watch movies, play video games, and play practical jokes on people. He has the third best time in the region in the 400-meter relay with a time of 47.72 seconds, and has served in Iraq twice.

Brown ran track in his freshman and senior years in high school. He began running after his mother made him watch the Olympics when he was a child.

At 17, he joined the Navy “I was going nowhere fast,” he said. “I wasn’t scared to join. I didn’t join thinking I was going to go to Iraq. I joined because there was nothing else for me to do.

“In Iraq, I was scared of dying every day. That’s the only time I’ve been scared in my life,” Brown says.

His military experience gave him maturity, discipline and the hard work gave structure to his life.

His leadership skills made it easy for Track and Field Head Coach Larry Wade to pick Brown as the team captain.

“He’s a leader in school, a leader off the track,” said Wade. “He showed the great training behavior that encouraged me to want to choose him as a team captain. When I saw that the team listened to him and believed in him as a person, I knew he was the person for it.”

When he left the military, Brown knew he was going back to school to run track. “I didn’t want to live my life saying, ‘What if I went back to do track?’ So I did my term in the military and decided go back to do track.”

He knew running track again wasn’t going to be hard but it wasn’t going to be easy, he said.

Brown’s passion, sincerity and sensitivity are other qualities as a captain.

“He is down to Earth,” said track runner Eddie Tripp. “When you make a mistake, even if he’s your friend, he is not going to go soft on you. He pushes everybody to be better.”

“Korey is an excellent guy,” said Track and Field Assistant Coach Pat Williams. “He gets along with his fellow teammates and takes and gives Coach Wade’s orders.”

Brown will be graduating this summer with a 3.16 GPA. He has USC, LSU, University of Oregon, Baylor, and many CSU’s wanting him for their track team. “I want to be part of a major track and field program where I know I will run against elite athletes that will make me be at the top stages,” Brown said.

Coach Wade has been a major influence in Brown’s life. “Coach Wade is more than a mentor. Coach is everything. He is everything you can think of. A male role model, that’s what he is,” Brown said.

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