Mary Kate McNamara

Class:
Redshirt Junior
Hometown:
Little Silver, N.J.
High School:
Red Bank Catholic

Last Updated: May 7, 2019

At Michigan
• Member of the 2018 Big Ten Cross Country Championship Team
• Academic All-Big Ten (2016)
• U-M Academic Athletic Achievement Award (2015)

Outdoor Track & Field
• Ran 2:17.93 in the 800 meter run for 10th at the Len Paddock Open (May 3)
• Ran a career-best 2:17.26 in the 800 meter run for 13th at the Louisville Invitational (April 12-13)
• Ran a career-best 4:51.19 in the 1500 meter run for 50th at the Black and Gold Invitational (March 22-23)

Junior (2017-18)

Outdoor Track & Field
• Ran 2:22.25 in the 800 meter run to finish 10th at the Toledo Invitational (May 3-4)

Indoor Track & Field
• Ran 5:23.35 in the Mile to finish 20th at the Wolverine Invitational (Jan. 13)

Cross Country
• Ran 19:12.1 over five kilometers (3.11 miles) to finish 24th at the Eastern Michigan Fall Classic (Oct. 20)
• Ran 22:59.0 over six kilometers (3.73 miles) to finish 66th at the Indiana Sam Bell Invitational (Sept. 30)
• Ran 19:37.5 over five kilometers (3.11 miles) to finish 44th at the Indiana State John McNichols Invitational (Sept. 9)
• Ran 19:23.8 over five kilometers (3.11 miles) to finish 27th at the Michigan Open (Sept. 1)

Sophomore (2016-17)

Outdoor
• Ran a career-best 4:56.92 in the 1500 meter run to finish 8th at the Toledo Invitational (May 4-5)
• Ran 2:21.62 in the 800 meter run to finish 10th at the Battle of the Blues (Apr. 1)

Indoor
• Ran a career-best 2:18.03 in the 800 meter run to finish 46th at the Spire Invitational (Feb. 10-11)
• Ran 2:22.46 in the 800 meter run to finish 12th at the SVSU Jets Pizza Invitational (Jan. 28)

Cross Country
• Finished 47th at the 5,000-meter EMU Fall Classic (Oct. 21) with a time of 19:15.1

Freshman (2015-16)

Outdoor
• Redshirted

Indoor
• Redshirted
• Competed unattached finishing seventh in the 800m run with a personal best time of 2:23.23 and helped to finish, unattached, fifth in the 4x400m relay event (4:08.53) at the Hillsdale Winter Opener (Jan. 9)

Cross Country
• Redshirted
• Competed unattached finishing 34th in the 5,000-meter event at the EMU Classic (Oct. 23) with a time of 19:20.3
• Made collegiate debut as an unattached competitor, finishing 25th with a time of 18:29.3 in the 5,000-meter event at the EMU Celebration (Sept. 5).

Prep

• Graduated from Red Bank Catholic High School (2015) with honors 2015 NJSIAA Scholar Athlete
• National Honor Society
• School Ambassador
• Junior Class President

Cross Country
• Ran at Nike Cross Northeast Regionals (2013-14), finishing as high as 51st place with a fourth-place team finish
• Team won the Meet of Champions event as the No. 1 team in the state of New Jersey
• First Team All-State honoree (2014)
• Senior Runner of the Year, as selected by Shore Track Coaches Association (2014)

Track and Field
• Competed at New Balance Indoor Nationals (2012, '14-15), finishing as high as eighth place in the mile run and 4x1 mile relay
• Also ran at Penn Relays (2013-15) and Arcadia Invitational (2015) meets
• Non Public Group A Indoor 800m Champion; Outdoor 800m (2013) and 1,600m Sectional Champion (2013, '15)
• First Team All-State honoree (2015)

Personal
• Enrolled in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts
• Undecided Major
• Born March 15, 1997
• Daughter of Peter and Susan McNamara
• Father (1982-86) played football at Rutgers University
• Sister, Molly, runs for Stanford University

Other Sports
• Also lettered in lacrosse, where her team was conference and sectional champions.