University of Detroit Mercy Athletics

Official Collegiate Results & Top Times
 

Career Highlights:

• 2x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2024, 2025)
• Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2025)
• Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2026)

• Competed in four races on the season, setting PR's in the 5k and 6k, and was part of the scoring five in three of them
• Tallied a career-best 19:35 for 36th at the Canisius Alumni Classic
• Posted a career time of 23:02 for 73rd at the Horizon League Championships
• Ended 197th at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championships in 23:51

• Clocked 20:55.4 for 32nd at the Michigan Open in her collegiate debut
• Posted a season-best 20:24.1 for 84th at Notre Dame's National Catholic Championships
• Ran 20:46.4 for 140th at the Louisville Classic

• A four-year letterwinner in cross country and track and field
• A Scholar-Athlete all four years
• Helped her team to a sixth-place finish at the state championship as a junior and ninth as a senior
• Guided the Wildcats to three straight county and regional titles
• A state qualifier as a junior and senior in cross country and track and field
• Took fifth in the two-mile as a junior

Personal:

• Daughter of Danielle Candela and Richard Mery
• Has a younger sister
• Her cousin, Alyssa Balcomb, plays softball at Oakland
• Chose Detroit Mercy because she loved the community and the academic programs
• Enrolled in the 5-year MBA program