Kathleen Newton | Inducted 2016
Kathleen Newton, Class of 2004, graduated from SVC with an Associate in Science degree and still held the Southern Vermont records for 5,000 meter and 6,000 meter races at the time of her induction (she was surpassed on the 5k record list in the fall of 2016). The Rensselaer, N.Y. native (Rensselaer High School) ran a 20:07 5K in 2002 at the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Championship and a 24:09 6K in the 2002 NCAA DIII New England Regional Championship. As a Mountaineer, Newton ran for head coach Scott Kilgallon and was named to the All-GNAC Team twice; she registered a third-place finish at the Conference championship in 2003 and a fourth-place finish in 2002. Newton was named the Vermont Indoor Track Coach of the Year twice as the head coach of the Mount Anthony Union High School varsity boys’ and girls’ teams, collecting her second straight such honor in February of 2013. She led the Patriots to a third-place finish on the girls’ side that year and a fourth-place standing for the boys.