Brodie & Kurt

Brodie Smith and Kurt Gibson are a team of Pro Frisbee Players on The Amazing Race 28.

Brodie & Kurt quickly emerged as physical and social threats due to their athletic prowess, as well as Brodie's budding relationship with Blair Fowler. Their athleticism and social connections regularly allowed them to finish near the top of the pack, including winning four legs. However, it became apparent that Brodie was hapless when left to his own devices and that Kurt carried the team through the more difficult Roadblocks. This became a problem when Kurt had maxed out his Roadblocks by the ninth leg, leading to Brodie being forced to do Roadblocks from then on. He struggled with his Roadblock in that leg, leading them to barely scrape by and avoid elimination. This put them in last the following leg, in which every team was just minutes apart from each other with no bunching point to erase the frisbee players' deficit. This gave Tyler & Korey and Burnie & Ashley the opportunity to use the Double U-Turn to target Brodie & Kurt for their physical prowess, dooming the frisbee players to finish in 5th place.

Profile[]

Retrieved from CBS.com^[2]

Kurt[]

Name: Kurt Gibson
Age: 30
Twitter: @kurtegibson
Instagram: kurtegibson
How many total followers do you have across all platforms? Not as much as everyone else - Help me pretty please!
Hometown: Westport, Conn.
Connection to your teammate: Ultimate Frisbee teammates and best friend
Current occupation: National Account Sales Manager at PepsiCo
Describe what you do: I manage the corporate call for one of the PepsiCo Away From Home Team's largest distributors. I am responsible for driving top/bottom line growth, developing short/long-term strategy, and managing all day-to-day internal-external activity on all of our lines of business.
3 words to describe you: Christian, honest and forgiving.
Favorite hobbies: Ultimate Frisbee, salsa dancing and watching movies.
What is the accomplishment you are most proud of? Kicking cancer in the butt.
What scares you most about traveling? I'm not scared of traveling. I love traveling, but definitely losing my wallet overseas would not be the most fun thing.
What excites you most about traveling? I love meeting people from around the world and understanding the genesis of traditions within cultures. It is so fascinating how different the world is yet we all share so many common bonds without even knowing it.
Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on The Race together: Being a target of other teams.
Pet peeve about your teammate: He snores and he always talks over me.
What country and place would you most like to visit and why? Egypt - How cool would it be to do a task in the ancient temples and pyramids of Giza? You couldn't recreate that any other place!
What do you hope to accomplish by running The Race (other than winning one million bucks)? I love traveling and seeing new places and I know this will be an opportunity for Brodie and me to see the world in a way that I won't ever have a chance to again. The things that people do on this show are not things normal tourists do, and for that reason alone, this trip is so unique and special.

Brodie[]

Name: Brodie Smith
Age: 28
Twitter: @BrodieSmith21
Instagram: BrodieSmith21
Youtube: Youtube.com/Brodie
Facebook.com/BrodieSmith21
Snapchat: BrodieSmith
Vine: Brodie Smith
www.BSmith21.com
How many total followers do you have across all platforms? Over 5 million
Hometown: Jacksonville, Fla.
Connection to your teammate: Ultimate Frisbee teammates and best friend
Current occupation: Social Media Creator
Describe what you do: I play professional Ultimate Frisbee and create content on social media for my fans and work with brands on their social campaigns.
3 words to describe you: Competitor, tall and Frisbee-lover.
Favorite hobbies: Sports, traveling, hiking, spending time with my family, board games and eating.
What is the accomplishment you are most proud of? Winning my second Ultimate Frisbee national championship in college in 2010.
What scares you most about traveling? Not having enough leg room on the flight.
What excites you most about traveling? Experiencing new adventures, meeting new people and trying things I never thought I would.
Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on The Race together: Staying positive when things aren't going our way.
Pet peeve about your teammate: He works on his own time, can occasionally be late/tardy.
What country and place would you most like to visit and why? Bora Bora, I am a huge fan of warm weather and beaches. Those always make for the best places to throw the frisbee.
What do you hope to accomplish by running The Race (other than winning one million bucks)? I hope to compete at my highest ability. Try my best at every task at hand and have a blast doing it.

The Amazing Race 28[]

Race History[]

Brodie & Kurt's Race History
Episode	Leg	Destination(s)	Detour Choice (underlined)	Roadblock Performer	Placement	Notes
1	1	United States → Mexico	Mariachi Madness / Great Bulls of Fire	Kurt	5 of 11
2	2	Mexico → Colombia	Pop-Up / Parrilla	Brodie	2 of 11
3	3	Colombia	Tickets / Tejo	Kurt	1 of 10
4	4	Colombia → Switzerland → France	Work Bench / Bench Work	Kurt	1 of 9
5	5	France	Dynamite / Campsite	Brodie	2 of 8
6	6	France → Armenia	Thread / Bread	Kurt	1 of 7
7	7	Armenia → Georgia	Clean / String	Kurt	3 of 7
8	8	Georgia → United Arab Emirates	Races / Oasis	Brodie	1 of 6ϵ	^[1]
9	9	United Arab Emirates → Indonesia	No Detour	Kurt	5 of 6	^[2]
9	9	United Arab Emirates → Indonesia	No Detour	Brodie	5 of 6	^[2]
10	10	Indonesia	Harvest / Haul	Brodie	5 of 5⊃
				Average	2.60
Legend: The team finished in first place The team finished in last place and was eliminated from the race The team finished in last place in a non-elimination leg The team that won The Amazing Race The team that crossed the Finish Line second The team that crossed the Finish Line third ϵ The team used the Express Pass somewhere during the leg ⊂ The team used the U-Turn ⊃ Recipient of the U-Turn ⋐ The team that used the second slot of the "Double U-Turn" ⋑ Recipient of a second U-Turn due to the "Double U-Turn" twist
Notes 1: Brodie & Kurt used the Express Pass to bypass the Roadblock in Leg 8. Before using the Express Pass, Brodie elected to perform the Roadblock, and this is reflected in the total Roadblock count. 2: Leg 9 featured two Roadblocks and no Detour. The team member who sat out the first Roadblock was required to perform the second one.

Post-Race[]

Brodie got engaged to Kelsey Lowrance on April 7, 2018.^[3]^[4]
- They got married on March 3, 2019.^[5]
Kurt is now a father to a son, Henry Duke, was born on December 23, 2023.^[6]

Trivia[]

Highest racing average of a team who finished in 5th place in the US version, at 2.60.

External links[]

Interviews[]

Tracy Swartz at Chicago Tribune (05/01/2016): "Ex-Chicago Wildfire player runs out of tricks"
Rob Cesternino at RHAP (05/02/2016): "Amazing Race 28 | Exit Interview with the Seventh Team Eliminated"
Elizabeth Kwiatkowski at RealityTV World (05/02/2016): "Exclusive: The Amazing Race eliminees eliminees Brodie Smith and Kurt Gibson talk" (Parts 1 and 2)
Saba Hamedy at Mashable (05/13/2016): "Eliminated teams dish on experiences ahead of finale"