[1][2][nb 1] She grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, in the working-class Houghs Neck neighborhood, the eldest of nine children.
Her mother, a Mi'kmaw woman, had run away from home in Nova Scotia when she was 11 and wound up in Quincy working as a nanny after lying about her age.
[9][10][11][12][nb 3] Catalano won the Rio de Janeiro Marathon despite getting food poisoning.
[15] Dillon was a Big East champion in the 3,000 meters and a cross country All-American at Providence College.
Catalano won Best in Show with a French Lop at the Pennsylvania Rabbit Convention.