McCord Named NYSCTC Track Athlete of the Week
ITHACA, N.Y. – Senior Marcia McCord (Rancocas Valley/Mount Holly, N.J.) was named NYSCTC Track Athlete of the Week for meets through Jan. 15 after setting new school records in a pair of events at the Cornell Relays on Dec. 4.
McCord, a four-time All-American at Ithaca, bettered her own school records in the 60- and 300-meter dashes. She finished the 60-meter dash in 7.77 seconds to provisionally qualify for the national meet, while also finishing the 300 in 40.41 seconds. She won the 300 dash and placed third in the short sprint.
She also hit a pair of ECAC qualifiers in the 200 dash and long jump at Kent State on Saturday. McCord ran a season-best 16th-place finish of 26.17 in the 200 and jumped to a ninth-place mark of 5.26 meters in the long at the predominately Division I meet.