Coree Woltering

Class of 2008 Coree Woltering was very involved and accomplished in extracurricular activities at OTHS. He participated for four years in Varsity teams as a soccer player, track and field athlete, and cross country runner. He was also a Varsity Cheerleader, junior varsity swimmer, four-year member of the OTHS State Championship Music Department, and also spent two years on the Varsity Speech Team, including winning a conference championship. Coree also spent three years in the Fine Arts Club and two years serving on Student Council. He achieved some of his greatest accomplishments at OTHS as a runner, placing 23rd in the AA IHSA Cross Country Regional, finishing as the 3rd individual Sectional qualifier in 2004. He placed 17th and was the 1st individual Sectional qualifier in 2005, and placed 10th and was the 1st individual Sectional qualifier again in 2006. In track in 2008 he was the AA Sectional Champion and State qualifier in the 800 meter event. He is now an accomplished trail runner, and is a professional ultra runner. He is the record holder for the fastest time completing the Ice Age Trail, a 1,147 mile historic footpath run through the state of Wisconsin. While competing as a track athlete for Greenville College, he also competed in triathlons. He qualified for the Ironman World Championships twice, in 2012 and 2013. After graduation he moved to Boulder, Colorado and got involved in ultra trail running. He won every trail ultra he entered in 2015, including the Malibu Canyon 50K and the Tunnel Hill 50 Mile. In 2016 he reduced his personal best in the marathon by nine minutes in the Mercedes Marathon in Birmingham, Alabama, finishing in second place, then later by two more minutes, finishing in 2 hours and 26 minutes in the Chicago Marathon, finishing 44th out of 40,608 runners. Later that year he ran the third fastest 50 mile trail run in North America at Tunnel Hill. In 2020 he completed the run in 21 days, 13 hours, and 35 minutes, besting the previous record by five hours, and in the process raised $35,000 for Feeding America. Among his extraordinary running accomplishments are two Ironman 70.3 World Championship finishes, two Land Between the Lakes Marathon Championships and course record, two Starved Rock Country Marathon Championships and course record, two Tunnel Hill 50 Mile Championships, and 15 other different trail course records and 22 ultra marathon podium finishes.