Title IX champion and NCAA swimmer reflects on the law's 53-year legacy, its impact on women's sports, and the current ...

In the 1970s, she made history while running in Boston and New York. She later fought to get a women’s marathon into the ...

Boston – Nina Kuscsik, who campaigned for women's inclusion in long-distance running and then won the Boston Marathon the first year that they were officially allowed to enter into the race, has died.

Nina Kuscsik, who campaigned for women's inclusion in long-distance running and then won the Boston Marathon the first year that they were officially allowed to enter into the race, has died. She was ...

only to be body-blocked by Switzer’s boyfriend. Kuscsik first ran the Boston Marathon in 1969 as a so-called “bandit” — without a bib or an official entry. By 1970, attitudes had begun to change when ...

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, despite an official trying to physically stop her. Her tips for getting fit include starting slow.

In this April 19, 1967, file photo, Kathrine Switzer, of Syracuse, N.Y., center, was spotted early in the Boston Marathon by Jock Semple, center right, who tried to rip the number off her shirt ...

An all-women's running group co-founded by Kathrine Switzer, who made history as the first woman to officially finish the Boston Marathon in 1967, is helping women break barriers and proving that ...

Switzer, now 78, signed up for the 1967 Boston Marathon, which until that point was predominantly run by men, as K.V. Switzer. Nearly 60 years after Boston Marathon run, Kathrine Switzer still ...