McNamee Honored as Women’s Indoor Track & Field Scholar Athlete
TOWSON, Md. – Elizabethtown’s Brenna McNamee has been named the Landmark Women’s Indoor Track & Field Senior Scholar Athlete for the 2017-18 season. McNamee is the 12th Blue Jay to earn senior scholar recognition.
McNamee was one of the Elizabethtown College women's track and field team's top performers at the 2018 Landmark Indoor Championships and has been over the duration of her track career in the distance races.
McNamee has been both a model of consistency and improvement. She ran the 3,000m and 5,000m every indoor championship meet for four years in an E-town uniform, and all eight times, she reached the podium.
As a freshman, the Downingtown, Pa. native was sixth in the 3k and fifth in the 5k, but by her senior year, she was winning both races. McNamee took the gold in the 3k and then set a new PR and won the 5k to pull off the double, a tough feat for any distance runner running among the conference's best in both events.
As a sophomore, McNamee finished third in those events. Her junior year, she placed fifth in the 3k and won the silver in the 5k.
This season, McNamee was the conference's Athlete of the Week on Jan. 15 after she won the 3k at the Coach I Open at Franklin & Marshall College on Jan. 13. During the 2017-18 indoor season, the senior finished no worse than seventh in either the 3k or the 5k.
After winning both races at the indoor championship meet at Susquehanna, McNamee was also voted the league's Track Athlete of the Year.
In addition to her racing accolades, McNamee excels in the classroom as an occupational therapy major at Elizabethtown. She holds a 3.87 cumulative GPA and has been a two-time Landmark Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll student. She has also helped the Blue Jays to USTFCCCA All-Academic Team status four consecutive years.
McNamee is the second consecutive Women's Indoor Track & Field Senior Scholar Athlete selection for E-town after Kelsey Detweiler was chosen for the award in 2017.