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2025-26 Women's Track and Field Roster

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Claire Hunt

Claire Hunt

  • Position:
    Distance
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Highschool:
    Lake Fenton (Mott Community College)
  • Hometown:
    Linden, Mich.

Summary

Biography

Official Collegiate Results & Top Times
 

Career Highlights:

  • Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2024)
  • Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2024)
  • Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2025)

2025 Outdoor:
  • Was 10th in the 1,500m (4:53.23) at Oakland's Golden Grizzlies Invite
  • Claimed 11th in the 5,000m (18:06.81) at the Bison Outdoor Classic
  • Finished sixth in the 1,500m (4:48.89) and 13th in the 800m (2:25.79) at Oakland's Elaine Leigh Invite
  • Clocked a career-best 18:00.98 for 35th in the 5,000m at the Jesse Owens Classic
  • Ended the season with a PR of 4:47.66 for 15th in the 1,500m and ran 18:32.80 for 18th in the 5,000m at the Horizon League Championships

2024-25 Indoor: 
  • Started the year with a PR of 10:45.38 for third in the 3,000m at the SVSU Classic
  • Took seventh in the mile (5:16.54) at the Akron Invite
  • Clocked a career-best 2:23.26 for 25th in the 800m at Michigan's Silverston Invitational
  • Posted a PR of 5:14.91 for 14th in the mile, ran 10:49.45 for 26th in the 3,000m, and was on the fourth-place distance medley relay at the Horizon League Championships

2024 Outdoor:
  • Was 13th in the 5,000m (19:14.39) and 15th in the 1,500m (5:01.61) at Eastern Illinois Big Blue Classic
  • Ran 2:31.03 for 27th in the 800m and 4:57.37 for 63rd at Bucknell's Bison Classic
  • Posted a pair of season-bests taking 16th in the 1,500 preliminary in 4:49.85 and 19th in the 5,000m in 18:40.64

2023-24 Indoor:
  • Transferred at the start of the second semester and competed in two events
  • In her Titan debut, placed 16th in the mile with a 5:29.08 at Michigan's Silverston Invitational
  • Set a PR in the mile at 5:25.16 for 19th at the Horizon League Championships

Prior To Detroit Mercy:
  • A transfer from Mott Community College who joined after the 2023 cross country season, but did run in indoor and outdoor track and field for the Titans in 2023-24
  • Was a Coaches Association All-American as a sophomore and a two-time individual national qualifier
  • Holds the fifth best 5k time in school history
  • Lettered in cross country and track and field in high school
  • Owns her school 5k record in cross country and was a three-time state qualifier
  • Was tabbed MVP of the cross country team as a sophomore, junior and senior and Most Improved in track and field as a sophomore
  • Named the Flint Metro League Athlete of the Year, the State Bank Athlete of the Year and Lake Fenton's Women Athlete of the Year as a senior
  • A member of the National Honors Society

Personal:
  • Daughter of Allison and Garth Hunt
  • Has an older and younger brother
  • Chose Detroit Mercy because of the team and campus atmosphere
  • A Biology major 

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