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Ann-Marie Tejcek

Ann-Marie Tejcek is a healthcare executive from Carmel, Indiana, who joins daughter Riley Tejcek on The Amazing Race season 39.

Biography

Ann-Marie Tejcek is a healthcare executive and The Amazing Race season 39 contestant from Carmel, Indiana. Her teammate is her daughter, Marine officer and bobsledder Riley Tejcek.

Tejcek brought her business travel experience and a longstanding family interest in competition shows to her race partnership with daughter Riley.

Known for

The Amazing Race season 39

Tejcek brought her business travel experience and a longstanding family interest in competition shows to her race partnership with daughter Riley.[1][5]

Career highlights

  1. Career 1

    Career at Eli Lilly

    Tejcek works at Eli Lilly and Company. She told Current Publishing that her job involves international travel, something her daughter remembered when watching the locations featured on The Amazing Race.[4]

  2. Career 2

    Watching as a family

    Riley recalled watching the show with her parents from a young age. Seeing destinations that Ann-Marie had visited for work gave the family another way to talk about her travels.[5]

  3. Career 3

    An earlier television appearance

    The race was not Tejcek's first family competition on television. She had appeared on Family Feud in April 2025 with her husband John, daughters Riley and Delaney, and brother-in-law Jim.[4]

  4. Career 4

    Physical preparation

    Riley put her mother on a structured exercise plan before filming. Riley described her mother as a regular gym-goer who also joined her for hiking and skydiving.[4]

  5. Career 5

    The mother-daughter team

    In his cast preview, host Phil Keoghan highlighted Tejcek's business leadership and the pair's competitiveness. Their partnership gave mother and daughter an extended trip together after years of watching the race at home.[6][5]