Former GCC track star Corinn Brewer working to bring women's decathlon to the Olympics

Decathlete Corinn Brewer is working to change the Olympics.

A lofty sounding goal? Yes. But not to the former Greensburg Central Catholic track and field standout who is a first-year multi-event athlete and pole vaulter at Lehigh.

Brewer is pushing for the games to add the women’s decathlon, an event that she and many others believe has been disrespected for years on the world’s largest athletic stage.

The men have it. Why can’t the women?

Now with a voice in the game, she has become an ambassador for Heaven to the Yeah, an organization that aims to “raise awareness for gender parity in the Olympic Games.”

Brewer, who began her college track career at Notre Dame before transferring to Lehigh, is considered a pioneer in the decathlon. She did, after all, break the American women’s U20 decathlon record over the summer at the International Women’s Decathlon Championships in California with a score of 5,685 points in the two-day, 10-event competition.

The event also is absent at the collegiate level.

“In college, I started to realize that there wasn’t a huge force for change to happen soon,” Brewer said. “So I wanted to take it upon myself to be that force, along with other athletes who are pushing for the women’s decathlon to be included in the Olympics.”

Her long-term goal is to get the decathlon added for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

She will speak at a meet-and-greet event — the “Road to Paris 2024 and Beyond” — at 6 p.m. Saturday at Edwins Too at Shaker Square in Cleveland.

Top male and female athletes will share stories about their time in the Olympics and others will talk about the need for change at the games.

A dinner will follow. Tickets are available here.

“We are a small but mighty group, and we are working tirelessly to spread the news about the gender inequality in this event in track and field,” Brewer said. “I really got involved in this movement because the issue hits very close to home, and I want to make a change that will have an impact on generations after me.”

Jordan Gray, who holds the American women’s decathlon record of 7,921 points, started the initial movement of inclusion. Her online petition is geared toward influencing the International Olympic Committee to make the decathlon an official event.

The Ball Ground, Ga. native who attended Kennesaw State, she won bronze in the heptathlon at the 2023 Pan American Games in Chile.