{"id":10705,"date":"2019-02-04T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=10705"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:19:04","slug":"olympian-and-envoy-agent-jordin-andrade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2019\/02\/04\/olympian-and-envoy-agent-jordin-andrade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympian and Envoy Agent Jordin Andrade, ready for Tokyo games"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cover Photo: Jordin Andrade on the track at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. (Instagram, @jhurdles)<\/h5>\n

Envoy has many employees that live double lives; meaning that not only are they great airline employees, they also\u00a0excel in everything from nightclub DJs to professional body builders. At Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU), Envoy has an Olympian in its midst.<\/p>\n

Envoy Ramp Agent Jordin Andrade is a track-and-field athlete who has won many college and international championships running the hurdles. To earn some extra income — and to get a little extra exercise — Jordin works on the ramp loading bags and guiding aircraft.<\/p>\n

At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jordin raced for his father’s home country of Cape Verde. In 2020, Jordin is determined to make it to the Japan to race in his second Olympics, and will hopefully be\u00a0<\/strong>qualifying sometime this summer.<\/p>\n

Below, Jordin talks about his family’s long history of winning track-and-field titles and\u00a0what having nearly 10 thousand Instagram followers means to him.<\/p>\n

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Jordin Andrade at the 2017 Francophone Games in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He won Cape Verde’s first international gold medal. (Photo: Instagram, @jhurdles)<\/h5>\n

When did you first become interested in track? How did you know hurdles was your event?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My family has a history of track and field as my dad was the California state champion in the hurdles, followed by my uncle who was also a state champion, NCAA champion, and Olympian in 1996. I started off afraid to live up to their legacy in track and field, so I diverted to other sports like football, basketball, and baseball.<\/p>\n

I got cut from my middle school basketball team, and it honestly hurt my confidence in sports. Two years after that, I gave track a shot because it was something that I could determine my own fate and tap into my family’s gift.<\/p>\n

Now I have a USA National Champion title, NCAA silver medal at Boise State and became an Olympian myself!<\/p>\n

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Jordin racing for Boise State in the 2015\u00a0NCAA Outdoor Championships where he won Silver in the 400-meter hurdles. (Photo: Instagram, @jhurdles)<\/h5>\n

You represented Cape Verde in the 2016 Olympics, will you be representing them in the 2020 games too?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes. I was born in Federal Way, Washington and my father is from Brava, Cape Verde, so I actually hold dual citizenship with USA and Cape Verde, which gives me the opportunity to represent either country. I represented the USA until 2015, but when the Olympics came around in 2016, I had the opportunity to represent my family and my ancestors.<\/p>\n

If so, what would it mean to you if you brought home the country’s first Olympic medal?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would be ecstatic for the entire country before even myself. It would be great to help write history for a country that is usually forgotten about, and has not received the opportunity it deserves to shine on the international stage.<\/p>\n

However, I\u00a0did bring Cape Verde its first international gold medal in track at the 2017 Francophone games in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. I’ve since donated that medal to the island of Brava, Cape Verde.<\/p>\n

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