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Larry Kimball - USATF

Kimball honored as '24 WLDR Marja Baker Contributor of the Year recipient

| By: Brackin Lambert
LAKE BUENA VISTA -- Legendary USCB cross country and track and field coach, Larry Kimball was honored earlier this month at the USATF annual meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida as the 2024 WLDR Marja Baker Contributor of the Year award winner for his contributions to the sport of long distance running. 

See the USATF full release below: 
As an athlete, Larry Kimball has competed in races throughout the United States and Canada, including more than 40 marathons. He was also an all-conference and all-state track athlete at Carson Newman College in Tennessee. He served as the distance coach at the University of Vermont from 1990-98 and helped lead the Catamounts to four team runner-up finishes in the America East Conference. He also coached three NCAA Division I individual national qualifiers and numerous individual New England and America East Conference champions. He was the head women's cross-country coach at St. Michael's (Vt.) College from 2001-05. During his tenure there, he coached numerous All-Northeast Ten Conference runners, as well as Academic All-Conference student-athletes. In each of his five seasons at St. Michael's, Kimball's teams had the highest GPA of all the school's athletics teams.

Coach Kimball was part of the USCB athletics department since its inception and has overseen the launch and growth of the men's and women's cross country and track programs. Starting with just three cross country members in USCB's first season of athletics in the fall of 2007, Kimball built teams that have grown significantly in numbers and quality. During the brief period of athletics at USCB, Kimball's teams have produced numerous All-Sun Conference performers and national championship qualifiers in both cross country and track and field. Larry's expertise as a race organizer is well known as the Sand Sharks' home course in Hardeeville hosted the Sun Conference Cross Country Championships in 2008, 2010, and 2013, and the Sand Shark Invitational has grown into one of the biggest races in the Southeast with nearly 40 schools competing annually. In addition to his coaching resume, Kimball served as co-director of the Stowe 8-Mile Road Race, which was voted as the 1998 New England Race of the Year by New England Runner magazine. He has also served on the executive committee of the prestigious Key Bank Vermont City Marathon and was on the board of directors of the Green Mountain Athletic Association. Kimball was also a member of the executive committee for the Women's Division I Cross Country Coaches Association.

Larry was inducted into the Run Vermont Hall of Fame in 2010 and was also honored by Vermont Governor James Douglas in 2003 as a Vermont Leader for Fitness and Sports for Outstanding Contributions to Physical Fitness and Sports. Kimball was selected to run with the Olympic Torch prior to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. He received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Trinity College in Vermont and a Master of Science in administration from St. Michael's College.
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