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Ginny Richburg.
Head Coach
Biography:
Coach Richburg was a 5 sport varsity letter winner in high school: field hockey, soccer, basketball, indoor and outdoor track and field, and softball. This was just as Title IX came into effect, so she was able to switch over to track and field as a sophomore. She earned league, state, and regional (New England) championships or top six ratings in hurdles, long jump, and javelin. Thus, she was snatched up as a multi-event athlete by Brandeis University while the school started its Women Track and Field and Cross Country Programs to match the men's rigor and reputation amongst D3 schools.
"My coach, Norm Levine, made me run cross country so that I could run a decent 800 (half mile) as the last event of the pentathlon or heptathlon. I was awful at first, but slowly improved to become the second women on the team with a personal best 20:20 5k and a 2:18 800. In the heptathlon, I was nearly All American, but because the university had not budgeted to send women to Nationals, my AD told my coach to train me to peak at Easterns. Because my coach did that so well, I was second at Easterns and one of the"
Milestones and Awards
Biography:
Brittany Castillo (Colford) is an STA alumnus of the class of 2009. As a student at St. Thomas, she competed in cross country, indoor and outdoor track, and basketball. She ran on STA’s NH Class I State Champion 4x400m relay team and qualified twice for the NH Meet of Champions in cross country as well as the 800m in outdoor track.
After STA, she ran cross country, indoor and outdoor track (800m, 1000m, and Steeplechase) for Colby College, and then went on to run for the post-collegiate elite team Battle Road Track Club (formerly New Balance Boston) for four years. In 2017, she moved to Ecuador and began competing in trail and mountain races for the club Ecuadoruns.
For many summers she was a camp counselor at Foss Running Camp. While living in Boston after college, she started and coached a middle school cross country and track team at St. Columbkille Partnership School. In 2020, she began teaching science at STA, and has taken part in coaching cross country ever since. She currently lives in Dover with her husband Marco and dog Cora.