Kathy Graham will be Highland Community College's next Head Cross Country Coach and Interim Head Track & Field Coach for both the Men's and Women's programs. Graham earned an Associate in Arts from San Diego Mesa College in San Diego, CA, and then went on to earn a Bachelor's in Kinesiology/PE and a Master's in Kinesiology, both from San Diego State University. She has coached Cross Country and Track & Field since 2005 at various institutions. Her most recent stint being at Ranger College from 2015 to 2021 as the Head Men's and Women's Cross Country/Track & Field Coach and an instructor in the kinesiology department.
While at Ranger, in 2020, Graham's Women's Cross Country team won the National NJCAA Championship, and her men's team finished eighth in the nation. In her 9 years working with athletes in the NJCAA, Graham has coached 17 NJCAA All Americans, 28 Coaches' Association All Americans, 38 NJCAA Academic All-Americans and 82 Academic All American Coaches Association Awards. In 2020, her Women's Cross-Country team had the highest GPA in the nation. Graham has over 25 years of experience developing young people into leaders who have succeeded individually and as a team in athletics, academics and life. Not only have her teams attained academic, state and national recognition as athletes and students; former runners of Graham have completed their bachelor's and master's degrees with honors and are now leaders in their respective fields as coaches, teachers, law enforcement officers, foster care case managers, missionaries, aeronautical engineering and many other professions.
“I enjoy helping student athletes work hard at something, work together and grow into people that flourish in and help bring positive change to their communities.”
