I have a hard time talking about myself, so I’ll just let the record speak for itself:

Oct. 10, 1973:  Born at Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids, IA

Aug. 1979:  Entered kindergarten (A.M. rules, P.M. drools) at Grant Wood Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, IA

June 1988:  Graduated eighth grade from McKinley Middle School in Cedar Rapids, IA

June 1992:  Graduated from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, IA

Aug. 1994:  Started coaching freshman girls’ volleyball and sophomore girls’ basketball at my alma mater of Washington High School

March 1995:  Won a state championship as assistant coach on the girls’ basketball team at Washington High School

May 1996:  Graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, IA

April 1998:  Married Jennifer Murphy in Mission, KS

Aug. 1999:  Started teaching at New Mark Middle School in the North Kansas City School District

Feb. 2002:  Our son Murphy Elijah Corum born

Aug. 2002:  Became the head volleyball coach at Oak Park High School in the North Kansas City School District

May 2002:  Graduated with Master of Arts degree from Emporia State University in Emporia, KS

Aug. 2006:  Started teaching at Oak Park High School

Nov. 2009:  Resigned as head volleyball coach at Oak Park High School

Aug. 2010:  Started teaching at Northgate Middle School in the North Kansas City School District

Dec. 2012:  Graduated with Doctor of Education degree from Saint Louis University

Aug. 2014:  Started teaching at Staley High School in the North Kansas City School District

Oct. 2014:  Got divorced

April-May 2015:  Sold family house, moved into current house

May 2015:  Traveled to New York City with Scott Anderson to see David Letterman’s 7th to last “Late Show.”

July 2015:  Attended my first World Domination Summit in Portland, OR; traveled to Orlando, FL with Murphy

Oct. 2015:  Completed the Kansas City Marathon; officiated Missouri Class 3 state championship volleyball match

Nov. 2015:  Murphy and I went to Kansas City Royals World Series championship parade

June 2016:  Traveled to England and France as a chaperone on a school foreign language trip

July 2016:  Murphy and I traveled to Cabo, Mexico

Aug. 2016:  Played an extra in a movie shot in Kansas City:  “All Creatures Here Below” starring David Dastmalchian and Karen Gillan.

Dec. 2016:  Selected to line judge at NCAA Women’s Division I volleyball national semifinals in Columbus, OH

July 2017:  My mom, Murphy, and I go to Okinawa, Japan

Sept. 2017:  Announced the NORCECA men’s volleyball tournament in Colorado Springs, CO

Dec. 2017:  Volunteered as committee chair for NCAA Women’s Division I volleyball championships in Kansas City, MO

March 2018:  Traveled solo to Athens, Greece

May 2018:  Selected to line judge at the FIVB Volleyball Nations League women’s USA vs. Turkey match in Lincoln, NE

June 2018:  Won $161.42 on HQ Trivia

July-August 2018:  Murphy and I traveled to New York City and Dubai

November 2018:  Traveled solo to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

January 2019:  Announced a boys’ basketball game between Staley and Webster Groves at the Hoosier Gym in Knightstown, IN

March 2019:  Began coaching Staley’s first boys’ volleyball club team

March 2019:  Traveled to Spokane, WA to referee the USA Volleyball Pacific Northwest Qualifier

May 2019:  Selected to be an official scorer at the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championships in Gulf Shores, AL

June 2019:  Selected to end court judge at the FIVB Volleyball Nations League women’s Korea vs. Germany match in Lincoln, NE

June 2019:  Traveled with Tracy Resseguie to the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament in Pebble Beach and to San Francisco, CA

July 2019:  Served as the team liaison to the France men’s national volleyball team at the final round of the FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Chicago, IL

September 2019:  Notified by Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, IA about selection into the Washington Athletic Hall of Fame to occur in January 2020

February 2020:  Attended Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl championship parade

March 2020:  COVID-19 physically closed school (as it turned out for the rest of the year) and taught exclusively online.  All end-of-the-year events were cancelled, and Murphy’s graduation was online.

June 2020:  Dropped Murphy off for Basic Cadet Training and his first year at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO

August 2020:  Reported back to school, but only taught half of the in person students two days a week each and the remainder online simultaneously

October 2020:  Spent by birthday weekend playing golf with Murphy at Eisenhower Golf Course at the Air Force Academy

November 2020:  Selected to officiate the MSHSAA state volleyball tournament for the second time in Cape Girardeau, MO

March 2021:  Returned to five days a week of school, uteroscopy surgery for removal of kidney stones

April 2021:  Line judged the rescheduled spring NCAA volleyball tournament in Omaha, NE

June 2021:  Surgery on meniscus on right knee

July 2021:  Traveled to Key West, FL with Murphy

August 2021:  Traveled to Belize to visit college friend Jason Turley

December 2021:  Attended First Responder Bowl in Dallas, TX with Murphy to see Air Force defeat Louisville

January 2022:  Attended AFC Divisional Round game where the Chiefs came from behind on the Bills with 13 seconds left to send the game to overtime and consequently won

February 2022:  My King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, Chester, passed away from kidney failure

April 2022:  Announced the NCVF championship matches at Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ

May 2022:  Paul McCartney concert in Orlando, FL

June 2022:  Set a Guinness World Record for most people in dinosaur costumes in one place during the World Domination Summit in Portland, OR, got my first tattoo

July 2022:  Announced racquetball at The World Games 2022 in Birmingham, AL, announced at the NORCECA U17 Women’s Volleyball Championship in Tulsa, OK

November 2022:  Attended and assisted my 30-year high school class reunion in Cedar Rapids, IA, announced and line judged the NJCAA national tournament in Cedar Rapids, IA

January 2023:  Retired Staley teacher Scott Anderson and I were guests on The Letterman Podcast to tell our story about going to The Late Show back in 2015.  Attended AFC Championship Game where the Chiefs beat the Bengals en route to winning Super Bowl LVII

March 2023:  Coach Staley’s boys’ volleyball team in a tournament at Webster Groves High School – the first Kansas City boys’ team to play a regular season match in St. Louis