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2020-21 Men's Track and Field Roster

Brendan McClanahan

Brendan McClanahan

  • Position:
    Mid-Distance
  • Class:
    Graduate Student
  • Hometown:
    Temperance, Mich.
  • High School:
    Bedford

Summary

Biography

Official Collegiate Results

Career Highlights:
  • 5x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
  • 3x Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2018, 2019, 2020)
  • 3x Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2018, 2019, 2020)

Career Best:
  • 600m: 1:29.98 at 2020 Can Am International
  • 800m: 1:55.85 at 2017 Bison Outdoor Classic 
  • 1000m: 2:35.28 at 2017 YSU National Invite
  • Mile: 4:29.78 at 2017 GVSU Tune- Up

2020 Indoor:
  • Ran with the sixth-place 4x400 quartet at the Blue and Gold Invitational and the Can Am International
  • Was 10th in a PR of 1:29.98 at the Can Am International

2019 Outdoor
  • Helped the 4x800m relay to a fourth place finish at the Annual Hillsdale relays
  • Finished seventh in the mile at the Oakland vs Detroit meet
  • A member of the 4x400m relay team that took ninth at the Pacesetter Invitational

2018 Outdoor:
  • Did not race

2018 Indoor:
  •  Did not race

High School:
  • Earned four letters in track and field and two in cross country and soccer
  • Tabbed the team’s Most valuable runner as a senior, where he was also a state qualifier
  • In track, he was All-State in the 800-meters as a senior taking eighth place in the Division 1 race
  • Also claimed fourth in the 800m at the 2016 indoor championships and was a state qualifier as a junior
  • Holds the second fastest time in the 800m at Bedford High School
  • Named the Most Valuable Distance Runner as a junior and senior and was part of the Midwest Meet of Champions Team in the 4x800-meter relay
  • Named a Scholar-Athlete all four years
 
Personal:
  • Son of Virginia Skinner and Marty McClanahan
  • Has one older sister
  • Chose Detroit Mercy because it offered a great engineering program and Division I athletics
  • A Mechanical Engineering major

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Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

    Distance
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Distance
  • 2018-19Junior

    Distance
  • 2019-20Senior

    Distance
  • 2020-21Graduate Student

    Mid-Distance