Title IX Milestones: Three-Sport Prep Star Kathrine Switzer Breaks Barriers as Boston Marathon's First Female
By NFHS on October 11, 2021 Title IX Print
Photo Credit: "Creative Commons Kathrine Switzer,
one of the first women to participate in a marathon (Boston 1967)”
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Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon as a numbered entrant. She was a renowned multi-sport athlete at James Madison and George C. Marshall High Schools in Vienna, Virginia, where she also played field hockey and girls basketball. #TitleIXat50
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