She assured him she could and he told her if she could prove to him she could run the 26 miles in practice, then he would take her to Boston. Briggs insisted that a woman could not run the Boston Marathon. Switzer found these stories so exciting she told Briggs she wanted to run the marathon herself. One night, while training with Briggs, he told Switzer some stories about the times he ran the Boston Marathon. There was not a women’s running team at her school, or any others, so she began training with the men’s cross country team under coach Arnie Briggs. While studying at the university, Switzer took up long distance running. She studied journalism and earned her bachelor’s degree in 1968 and her master’s degree in 1972. Marshall High School in Virginia and then went on to attend Syracuse University. Kathrine Switzer was born in Germany in 1947 and was the daughter of a major in the United States Army. This woman has gotten a lot of press coverage this week so let’s get into the full story of Kathrine Switzer.
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