From Phillips Andover: Athletics Hall of Honor to welcome 5 new inductees
CATHARINE VON KLEMPERER UTZSCHNEIDER ’73
A member of Abbot Academy’s final graduating class, Catharine von Klemperer Utzschneider earned a BA degree from Middlebury College and an MA in health sciences, an MBA, and an EdD in physiology and performance from Boston University. Her dissertation on more than 100 national- and world-class runners determined that it’s never too late to excel physically.
Utzschneider was a competitive cross country skier and squash and tennis player from a young age. Encouraged by a neighbor, she joined a running club at age 40; within a year she was sponsored by New Balance. In 1992, she founded M.O.V.E.! (Motivate, Organize, Visualize, Excel!) to help people achieve physical goals, accelerate productivity, and enhance their joy for life. Five years later, she joined Boston’s Liberty Athletic Club, the country’s oldest all-female running club. She became president and later head coach.
An elite masters athlete for more than 20 years, Utzschneider won a Nike World Masters Games silver medal in 1998, a national title in aquathlon (a two-stage race of swimming and running), the bronze medal in the World Aquathlon Championships in 2017, and nine USA Track and Field age-group titles in races ranging from 800 meters to 8K. In 2005 she achieved a fifth in the world age-group ranking in the mile. In 2014, she was ranked first in the country in the 3K.
Utzschneider believes that goal-setting transforms lives. She has trained hundreds of runners (including beginners to Olympians and world age-group record holders) and served as a Boston Marathon coach. She is the author of M.O.V.E.! and Mastering Running and is a New England Sports for Women board member, National Masters News columnist, U.S. Track and Field communications advisor, and Boston College lead professor of coaching for high performance and sports leadership.
A member of Abbot Academy’s final graduating class, Catharine von Klemperer Utzschneider earned a BA degree from Middlebury College and an MA in health sciences, an MBA, and an EdD in physiology and performance from Boston University. Her dissertation on more than 100 national- and world-class runners determined that it’s never too late to excel physically.
Utzschneider was a competitive cross country skier and squash and tennis player from a young age. Encouraged by a neighbor, she joined a running club at age 40; within a year she was sponsored by New Balance. In 1992, she founded M.O.V.E.! (Motivate, Organize, Visualize, Excel!) to help people achieve physical goals, accelerate productivity, and enhance their joy for life. Five years later, she joined Boston’s Liberty Athletic Club, the country’s oldest all-female running club. She became president and later head coach.
An elite masters athlete for more than 20 years, Utzschneider won a Nike World Masters Games silver medal in 1998, a national title in aquathlon (a two-stage race of swimming and running), the bronze medal in the World Aquathlon Championships in 2017, and nine USA Track and Field age-group titles in races ranging from 800 meters to 8K. In 2005 she achieved a fifth in the world age-group ranking in the mile. In 2014, she was ranked first in the country in the 3K.
Utzschneider believes that goal-setting transforms lives. She has trained hundreds of runners (including beginners to Olympians and world age-group record holders) and served as a Boston Marathon coach. She is the author of M.O.V.E.! and Mastering Running and is a New England Sports for Women board member, National Masters News columnist, U.S. Track and Field communications advisor, and Boston College lead professor of coaching for high performance and sports leadership.
