Press Archive Archives - Kathrine Switzer

Why We Run

February 22, 2020 | adidas | adidas

Hey Friends! I love this study done around the world by adidas, showing Why We Run! I’m wondering if you are as surprised as I am that so many people…Read More

Iconic runner empowers women through sport

February 5, 2020 | Manawatu Standard | News | George Heagney

Iconic athlete Kathrine Switzer has been inspiring Manawatū runners and empowering women in the sport. Switzer and husband Roger Robinson, who have both long been involved in running, have been in Palmerston…Read More

Graduation Season Has Arrived

May 15, 2018 | Women's Running | Team WR

Graduation season has arrived—and a flood of commencement addresses are coming with it. Not every speech delivered this year will be memorable, but a handful will likely be transformative—especially for those…Read More

Switzer Gives Syracuse Commencement and Receives Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters

May 14, 2018 | Runner's World | Heather Mayer Irvine

If Kathrine Switzer’s Syracuse University commencement speech didn’t inspire every graduate to lace up and run, we don’t know what will. Switzer, who in 1967 became the first woman to…Read More

Marathon icon Kathrine Switzer’s DNA in perfume

January 10, 2018

Fun Fact: Equinox has a fragrance made with real DNA from the legendary runner Kathrine Switzer and it’s on display in its Franklin Street gym. Switzer’s claim to fame comes from being the first…Read More

Happy Birthday Kathrine

January 5, 2018

On Her Birthday, Running Pioneer Explains How She’s Mastering Marathons Into Her 70s Kathrine Switzer celebrates her 71st birthday today in Wellington, New Zealand, where she winters with her husband, runner…Read More

LISTEN Connections: Dispelling myths about aging, WXXI News, by Evan Dawson and Megan Mack

October 20, 2017 | WXXI | Connections | Evan Dawson and Megan Mack

Switzer has been an advocate for female athletes for decades, and she is also outspoken about dispelling the myths about aging. She’s in Rochester as the keynote speaker of Baden Street…Read More

’67 Marathon Half Century

October 18, 2017 | Rochester Business Journal | Scott Pitoniak

Rochester Business Journal’s OnSports column focuses on the 50th anniversary of the historic Boston Marathon event. Switzer’s Marathon Jaunt Broke Barriers, Changed the World by Scott Pitoniak The history-jarring moment…Read More

LISTEN: Marathon pioneer Kathrine Switzer speaking in Rochester Friday, WXXI Radio, by Beth Adams

October 17, 2017

WXXI News Radio Interview with Kathrine. Click on the LISTEN link to hear Switzer talk about her groundbreaking run and how she continues to empower women and girls. Listen HereRead More

SideTrack: Kathrine Switzer, Trevor Noah, Olivia Culpo…,Boston Herald, by Olivia Vanni

October 15, 2017 | Boston Herald | Olivia Vanni

FEET FEATS: Running royalty Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an official entrant and co-founder of social running community 261 Fearless Inc., was in Boston…Read More

First woman to complete the Boston Marathon appears in Reading (VIDEO), Reading Eagle, By Beth Hudson

October 10, 2017

Kathrine Switzer is less than a month away from running her first New York City Marathon in 42 years. She decided to enter the Nov. 5 event during the post-race…Read More

Pioneer Kathrine Switzer ready to run New York City Marathon

October 9, 2017 | FOX5 News | Alison Mores

A legendary runner who made a name for herself as the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon was in New York Monday. The great Kathrine Switzer led a…Read More

Influencing Change One Stride At a Time

October 5, 2017 | Women 2 Women | Tom Chobot

On any given day in Berks County, residents can be seen practicing a variety of fitness and exercise activities from a simple walk in the park, to any number of…Read More

Women’s running hero Kathrine Switzer heading to NYC Marathon four decades after win, Canadian Running, by Sinead Mulhern

September 28, 2017 | Running | Sinead Mulhern

There’s still three months left of 2017 and Kathrine Switzer is making it count. It has been a crazy year for the pioneer of women’s running and the excitement isn’t…Read More

Beyond “Battle of the Sexes”: 16 Other Times Female Athletes Crushed the Competition, Mother Jones, by Becca Andrews and Edwin Rios

September 22, 2017 | Mother Jones | Becca Andrews and Edwin Rios

Kathrine is listed in this Mother Jones’ article: More than four decades ago, tennis star Billie Jean King faced off against gambler Bobby Riggs at the Astrodome in front of millions…Read More

VIDEO Kathrine Switzer Reflects After Finishing 2017 Boston Marathon, WBZ News Interview

August 23, 2017

The Art of Sport with Kathrine Switzer, Yankees Magazine by editor-in-chief Alfred Santasiere III

August 21, 2017 | Yankees Magazine | Alfred Santasiere III

YANKEES MAGAZINE: What did you enjoy about running when you were a teenager? KATHRINE SWITZER: My dad encouraged me to run a mile a day because he felt it would…Read More

How to Find Joy in Every Workout, Kathrine Switzer on the lessons she’s learned after a lifetime of running. Outside Magazine, by Molly Mirhashem

August 1, 2017 | Outside Magazine | Molly Mirhashem

Kathrine Switzer started running almost 60 years ago. In 1967, she became the first woman to enter and run the Boston Marathon when it was open only to men. This…Read More

VIDEO Kathrine Switzer Finishes Boston Marathon 50 Years After Being First Woman To Run

July 29, 2017

Katherine Switzer Chats Chicago Rock ‘n’ Roll Races, WCIU broadcast to YouTube video

July 14, 2017

Legendary runner, Katherine Switzer, is in studio this morning talking about her experience being the first woman to run thew Boston Marathon. Listen to her story how she registered and…Read More

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