Beverly Kearney

Quick Facts

Full Name	Beverly Kearney
Occupation	American Coach
Date Of Birth	Feb 25, 1958(1958-02-25)
Age	66
Birthplace	Mississippi
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Beverly Kearney Biography

Beverly Kearney is one of the most popular and richest American coach who was born on February 25, 1958 in Mississippi, United States. Beverly Kearney (born 25 February 1958) is an American former track and field and track coach. From 1993 until 2013 Kearney played the role of head coach for the Texas Longhorns women’s track and field and cross-country team at The University of Texas at Austin She was the head coach until her resignation on January 5, 2013. Kearney led her team of Lady Longhorns to six NCAA Championships: Indoor Championships in 1998 1999, 1999 and 2006, as well as Outdoor Championships in 1998, 1999, and 2005.

Since 2006 Kearney created The Pursuit of Dreams (POD) Foundation which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping people reconnect with their purpose in life desires, passions, and dreams. POD employs proven sport- based “coaching” methods and principles in a larger context to help strengthen communities and individuals. Every spring, during the Texas Relays weekend the organization organizes a symposium and networking event for teachers students, encouraging and mentoring them as well as the whole community. The aim of the conference is to bring together an elite group of minorities who have impressive qualifications from the music, entertainment, and sports industries with well-known people from academia, politics and corporate America to provide students of minority backgrounds with guidance on making an impactful transition into business world.

On January 5, 2013, Kearney resigned as women’s track coach at the University of Texas after revealing that she had engaged in an “intimate consensual relationship” with a student athlete and member of the track and field team. The former athlete notified Texas officials about the relationship in October 2012, and Texas placed Kearney on leave in November 2012 while an investigation took place. After confirming the relationship, UT officials decided that Kearney could not continue in her position and informed her that she could either resign or be fired. School officials maintained that any romantic relationship between a player and a coach is unacceptable.

When doctors told Kearney how she had been paralyzed, she pledged to be able to walk again. She had numerous major surgeries as well as weeks of rehabilitation and physical therapy. She was first on her own for the first time in four months after the accident in front of who swarmed the Mike A. Myers Stadium in 2003 during the Texas Relays. Within one year of her accident, she switched from a wheelchair using a walker and one year later used two canes. After a few years, she changed to a single cane to help keep her equilibrium.

Beverly Kearney Net Worth

Beverly Kearney is one of the richest American Coach from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Beverly Kearney 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her mother passed away at the age of 17 years old. She was later homeless and was working various jobs to make ends meet. Kearney was a star athlete and started the track and field program with Hillsborough Community College where she received National Junior College All-America honors. Then, she was awarded an award for Auburn University where she claimed two AIAW All-America honors and was chosen as the Auburn Athlete of the Year and team MVP in her senior year. In the year 1980, Kearney qualified for the U.S. Olympic trials in the 200-meter race before finishing her time with Auburn in 1981 and obtaining the bachelor’s master’s degree in social service. In 1982, she graduated with the master’s diploma in education for physical therapy from Indiana State University, where she began her coaching career in track and field.

On the 26th of December in 2002 Kearney had been a driver in an SUV which flipped repeatedly, hurling her 50 feet away from the vehicle. The crash resulted in Kearney completely paralyzed from waist to her knees. Two of his friends perished at the scene, including Ilrey Olly Sparks a forty-year-old advisor at UT and an ex- Jamaican Olympic track star, and Muriel Wallace, who was the daughter of driver. Three people survived including Kearney and the driver, Michelle Freeman, a former Jamaican track and field athlete , and Olympic bronze medallist and Sparks’s two-year-old child, Imani Sparks. When emergency personnel found Kearney on the ground she was barely breathing. The spinal cord of her was severely injured, a portion of her back was taken away and her skull had been fractured and her body was bruised throughout.

Kearney and her attorney, Derek Howard, told the Austin American-Statesman that she did not know she was required to inform the women’s athletic director about any relationship she had with one of her players. While Kearney admitted displaying poor judgement, Howard issued a statement asserting that male coaches have engaged in similar conduct and have not been punished, in particular football coach Major Applewhite, who had an extramarital affair with a graduate-student trainer. Applewhite’s only punishment was a salary freeze for 11 months of 2009. He was given a $9,000 raise in 2010. Patti Ohlendorf, UT Austin’s vice president for legal affairs, noted in comments to CNN that the distinguishing feature of Kearney’s conduct was her position as a head coach and the status of the directly subordinate student-athlete, saying that the relationship “crosses the line of trust placed in the head coach for all aspects of the athletic program and in the best interests of the student- athletes in the program.”

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Facts & Trivia

Beverly Ranked on the list of most popular American coach. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Beverly Kearney celebrates birthday on February 25 of every year.

Where is Bev Kearney now?

Kearney was one of the most successful women’s track coaches in the country and was being considered for a significant raise in 2012 until the 2002 relationship with one of her runners was reported to school officials. She resigned in January 2013 under threat of being fired. She now lives in California.

Who is Bev Kearney?

Bev Kearney was the first African-American coach to win an NCAA national team championship in Division I track and field.

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Biographical details
1993–2013| Texas
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NCAA Women’s Indoor Track & Field (1992, 1998, 1999, 2006) NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track & Field (1998, 1999, 2005)