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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

Photo Credit: "Creative Commons Kathrine Switzer,
one of the first women to participate in a marathon (Boston 1967)
by Recuerdos de Pandora, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. 
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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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