Cathy Easker (née Branta; born January 6, 1963) is a retired middle-distance and long distance runner from Slinger, Wisconsin, USA.
[2][3] She won the gold medal at the 1985 Summer Universiade in Kobe, Japan in the women's 3,000 metres event.
She also qualified to the 1984 World Championships on home soil at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where her 10th-place finish also had been a part of the USA's team gold medal.
On October 5, 1985, she married John Easker of Wittenberg-Birnamwood, Wisconsin, who had won the state boys division 2 title in 1980 and also went on to have a successful running career at UW.
She currently coaches high school track and cross country, and teaches physical education and health in Wittenberg-Birnamwood, WI.