Episode 116: Mary Wittenberg
President, League One Volleyball (LOVB)

Mary Wittenberg is president of League One Volleyball (or LOVB), a new, first-of-its-kind volleyball community. There’s a network of junior clubs across the country and a developing professional women’s volleyball league.  

Mary grew up in Buffalo, New York -- the oldest of seven children in an athletic family. At Canisius College she was a coxswain for the men’s rowing team and an avid runner. She earned a law degree from Notre Dame University Law School, where she continued to run – training with the men’s undergrad cross-country team because there was no women’s team. And she is speedy. In 1987, she won the Marine Corps Marathon in a time of 2:44:34 qualifying her for the 1988 Olympic marathon trials.

After working at a law firm for more than a decade, she joined New York Road Runners. In 2005, she was named President and CEO, and Race Director of the New York City Marathon, ….making her the first female race director of a World Marathon Majors race, AND the first female leader of the world’s premier road running organization.

She is also former CEO of Virgin Sport and former president of EF Education First …Pro Cycling Team. Mary joined LOVB to continue her work supporting female athletes and building women’s sport.

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