CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE) - Clovis Unified School District's Superintendent Corrine Folmer knows that in the game of education, success comes from being a team player. “It's never been about one person. It's about this team. And there is no greater team and family than the one I've encountered in Clovis Unified,” said Folmer. Folmer is the superintendent for the Clovis Unified School District, building on a legacy of team players before her. “The fact that I get to follow two strong, passionate women and hopefully, you know, my greatest hope is that someday people will look and say, you know, she tried to keep up with us, and I don't know if I'll meet their standard, but that I'm upholding the expectations that have been founded here,” she said. Folmer’s Family is part of that Clovis Unified foundation. “I'm the third generation of my family to be a Clovis product. My grandfather graduated from Clovis before it was a district, and then my father graduated from Clovis High,” she said. Folmer was a state champion runner at Buchanan and a student-athlete at Fresno State where she earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate. She mentored other young athletes as a soccer coach at Alta Sierra until exchanging the soccer field for the classroom. “There was a teacher in Clovis Unified who was a great mentor and she was like, You should become a teacher. And I thought, Oh, I don't know. And sure enough, I've never regretted that decision,” said Folmer. The students and the education has always been her focus.  “I don't know that I on a vision board had ‘be the superintendent for Clovis Unified,’ but it's not lost on me, the responsibility and the great honor,” said Folmer. Now her two daughters get to watch their mom carry that responsibility with honor. Her youngest, Sydney, is a freshman at Clovis East and at 9 years old, Sydney was diagnosed with narcolepsy. “She is a great inspiration about embracing each of our circumstances and not letting that define you,” said Folmer. To raise awareness for her daughter's illness, the former state champion ran in the 2024 New York City Marathon for the “Narcolepsy Network.”  Showing off that Clovis Unified spirit that helped shape the remarkable woman she is today and the remarkable women her daughters are becoming. “My girls are surrounded by a village like every other student in our district, a village who is helping to partner to shape them when I can't be there, hold them accountable, and teach them the life lessons that they're going to need when they leave," Folmer said. ...read more read less