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2023-24 Women's Track and Field Roster

MacKenzie Patterson

MacKenzie Patterson

  • Position:
    Hurdles
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Highschool:
    Niagara Wheatfield
  • Hometown:
    North Tonawanda, N.Y.

Summary

Biography

Official Collegiate Results & Top Times
 

Career Highlights:

  • 3x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
  • 3x Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022, 2023)
  • 3x Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Co-Valedictorian (2024)


2024 Outdoor:

  • Finished 12th in the 400mH in 1:17.50 at Oakland's Elaine Leigh Invite
  • Was 10th in the 400mH in 1:13.32 at Michigan's Pen Paddock Open


2023-24 Indoor:

  • Registered a career-best 49.59 for 12th in the 300m at Eastern Michigan's Bob Parks Memorial

2023 Outdoor:
  • Part of the 4x400 team that took third at Silverston

2022-23 Indoor:
  • Personal record in 600m at SVSU
  • Personal record in 200mat Blue and Gold 

2022 Outdoor:
  • PR in the 400mH at the Elaine Leigh Invitational (1:10.25)
  • Finished second in the 400mH at the Concordia Legacy Classic (1:10.57) 

2022 Indoor:
  • PR in 400m (1:06.90) at the GVSU Big Meet

2021 Indoor:
  • Earned third in 4x400, eighth in 400m at SVSU tune-up

Prior to Detroit Mercy:
  • Earned varsity letters in track and field and tennis
  • School-record holder in the 400-meter hurdles
  • Won the conference's 400-meter hurdles as a sophomore and junior and was second in the Section 6 Sectionals as a junior
  • Also part of a school-record 4x400-meter relay squad that was third in the sectionals in 2019
  • A four-time All-Conference performer in tennis and was the team MVP as a junior

Personal:
  • Daughter of Jennifer and John Patterson
  • Has two younger sisters and a younger brother
  • Chose Detroit Mercy because of the small class size
  • A Biology major

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Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

    Hurdles
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Hurdles
  • 2022-23Junior

    Hurdles
  • 2023-24Senior

    Hurdles