Former William and Mary standout and coach Kathy Newberry '00 was the second American across the line Saturday at the IAAF World Championships Women's Marathon, finishing 30th overall in 2:37:28.  Kenya's Edna Kiplagat was the winner in 2:28:43, followed by two of her countrymen in second and third.


No stranger to the world stage, Newberry was making her sixth world championships appearance, but first in the marathon and first at the world track championships.  Previously, she appeared on five world cross country teams for Team USA, including serving as captain in 2009.  Newberry qualified for the marathon team last fall, when she was the third American across the line at the New York Marathon in her debut at the distance.

As a runner at W&M from 1996-2000, Newberry helped the Tribe to a pair of NCAA cross country championships appearances, including a best-ever 10th-place showing in 1998. Individually, she was a four-time All-CAA runner, and was named to the conference's 25th Anniversary women's cross country team in 2009-10.  On the track, Newberry won both the 3,000m and 5,000m at the CAA Championships as a senior, and post-collegiately, qualified and ran at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Trials.

Newberry took over as the College's head women's coach in the spring of 2005 and promptly coached her athletes to 10 of 11 CAA championships, winning all five cross country crowns and five of six track titles. She was responsible for helping develop some of the top runners in school history, including three-time All-American Emily Anderson '11 and 2008 world junior championships participant Betsy Graney '11, and trained and recruited athletes to win 34 CAA titles combined in both cross country and track and field. In her five and a half years, Newberry's teams were named All-Academic by the USTFCCCA eight times, and she was voted CAA Coach of the Year seven times. In addition to the 34 CAA championships, the Tribe's athletes also won six ECAC titles, three CAA Athlete of the Year awards, and three CAA Rookie of the Year awards. In the classroom, the College produced four Phi Beta Kappa Initiates, and six CAA Scholar-Athletes of the Year.