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ADVISORY BOARD
​KATHY BUTLER
A post-collegiate group in Boulder, Colorado. Butler has served as Team USA Coach at the 2023 Pan Am Games, 2023 World Cross Country Championships, the 2022 NACAC Track and Field Championships and the 2019 Great Stirling Cross Country.
Kathy has personally coached athletes competing for Team USA to Pan Am games medals, world championships top 10 finishes and had four Run Boulder athletes compete at the 2020 Team USA Olympic Trials Marathon. Butler has coached runners for all of the marathon majors.
Butler is the Chair of the USATF Coaching Education Committee, as well as a member of the USATF Women’s Long Distance Running (LDR) Executive Committee and USATF Cross Country Council. As a coach developer she instructs at all levels of the USATF Coaching Education program and has developed curriculum for USATF. Kathy does guest speaking for corporate events and internationally as a coach developer.
RODERICK SEWELL
An adaptive athlete training for the Paralympics. Sewell was born missing his tibia in both legs, which were both amputated above the knee before he turned 2. He got his first pair of prosthetic legs a year later. As he grew, his prosthetics needed to grow with him. The demand for new sockets, feet and knees became annual.
Roderick’s mother Marian worked for the navy and had to quit her job so that she could qualify for specific services that would pay for his prosthetics. With her income cut for her son, Roderick and his mother were homeless in San Diego, junping from shelter to shelter. He connected with coaches from the Challenged Athletes Foundation, an organization that helps provide disabled athletes with a path to success.
He learned how to swim from his coach and mentor, Alan voisard, at the mission valley YMCA in san diego when he was ten years old. Sewell represented team USA at the 2014 pacific para - swimming championship where he won both a gold and bronze medal.
In 2015, he qualified in swimming for the Para PanAm games and received a bronze medal. In 2017, he qualified for World Championships in swimming and received a bronze medal.
In 2019, Sewell announced his participation in the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii. On October 12, he successfully completed 140.6 miles of swimming, biking and running across Hawaii's Big Island, and is the first bilateral above-the-knee amputee to complete the Ironman World Championships!
Now, he is an athlete/ambassador for the Challenged Athletes Foundation. He is writing his first memoir and is working to make sure others with disabilities are getting what they need to be active and healthy.
DAVE MCGILLIVRAY
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, motivational speaker, author, and athlete.
The defining moments in Dave’s life are linked together by a lifetime passion for the sport of running. Dave famously completed an 80-day trek across the United States, running the 3,452 miles from Medford, Ore., to Medford, Mass. in the summer of 1978 to benefit the Jimmy Fund. The feat inspired the marrying of endurance sports and charitable fundraising that remains popular today.
His running resume includes completing the World Marathon Challenge (seven marathons in seven days on seven continents,) nine Ironman Triathlon World Championships, a 1,250 mile run along the U.S. East Coast in 1980 to again benefit the Jimmy Fund, a 24-hour run (120 miles,) a 24-hour bike (385 miles,) and a 24- hour swim (27 miles.) He triathloned around the six New England states by swimming one mile, biking 80 miles and running 20 miles every day for 32 consecutive days.
Dave has run 167 full marathons, including 51 consecutive Boston Marathons. Over the span of his life, he estimates he’s run more than 160,000 miles.
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