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2021 Women's Cross Country Roster

Rebecca Arnold

Rebecca Arnold

  • Class:
    Graduate Student
  • Highschool:
    Almont
  • Hometown:
    Almont, Mich.

Summary

Biography

Official Collegiate Results

Career Highlights:
  • 5x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
  • 4x Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
  • 4x Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
  • Second Team All-Horizon League (2021)
  • Titan Club Award (2021)
  • President's Award (2022)

Career Best:
  • 3.1 Mile: 20:31 at 2018 Annual Running Fit- Detroit Mercy Invitational
  • 5k: 18:42 at 2020 Wright State Winter XC Challenge
  • 6k: 23:29 at 2021 Horizon League Championships


2021:

  • Ran in five of the team's six races and finished first or second on the team in three of the team meets
  • Earned All-Horizon League Second Team placing 10th at the league championships in a 6k career-best of 23:28 on a muddy course
  • Top 30 at Bowling Green taking 29th in 24:13 in the first 6k race of the year
  • Runner-up at the Lansing Invite in 19:10, a week before she was married
  • Claimed fifth at the home meet in 19:04 and broke the 20-minute mark in the 5k tallying 39th in 19:27 at the National Catholic Championships


2020:

  • Ran in both races on the season starting as she set her 5k career best taking eighth in 18:42 at the Wright State Winter XC Challenge
  • Was 24th at the Horizon League Championships in 23:40

2019:
  • Ran a 20:59 in the season opening 5k just seconds shy of a personal record
  • Finished with a PR in the 6k with a time of 23:37 at the Horizon League Championships
  • Ran a 20:13 in the 5k at the Greater Louisville Classic matching 5k PR

2018:
  • After spending last season competing in solely track and field, Measel made the transition to cross country this year
  •  In her collegiate debut at the 32nd Annual Running Fit- Detroit Mercy Titans Invitational, Measel took 34th with a time of 20:31
  • Placed for the red, white and blue as she crossed the line in 20:51 at the National Catholic Championships
  • Measel improved throughout her first season running cross country setting a personal record with her mark of 20:24 at the Louisville Classic
  • Lowered her personal record to 20:13 at the Canisius Alumni Classic
  • Rounding out the Titan scoring five, Measel took 71st at the Horizon League Cross-Country Championships with a time of 24:18 

Prior To Detroit Mercy:
  • Lettered in cross country, track and field, basketball and volleyball
  • A team captain as a senior and was a two-time team MVP
  • All-State in the 300-meter hurdles as a sophomore and senior
  • The regional champion in the event as a junior and senior and runner-up as a sophomore
  • Earned All-County in her last three years
  • Blue Water Area Conference (BWAC) All-Conference Second Team in the 300-meter hurdles and 800-meter relay her last two years
  • Holds the school record in the 400m in 52.31
  • A member of the All-Defensive Team three times in basketball
  • A member of the National Honor Society

Personal: 
  • Daughter of Maryellen and Kenny Measel
  • Has a younger brother
  • Her cousin graduated from the University in 2000
  • Her husband, Zach, was a four-year letterwinner at Detroit Mercy from 2014-2018
  • Lists her biggest thrill in sports as getting a new PR and running up to my family to give them hugs and them telling me how proud they are
  • A Nursing major

Career Finishes:
2021 Results
Sept. 11 - 35th Annual Running Fit - Detroit Mercy Titan Invitational (Cass Benton Park - Northville, MI) - 19:05- 5th
Sept. 17 - National Catholic Championships (UND Cross Country Course - South Bend, IN) - 19:27- 39th
Oct. 1 - Lansing Invite (Grand Woods Park - Lansing, MI) - 19:10 - 2ND
Oct. 16 - Falcon Invitational (BGSU XC Course - Bowling Green, OH) - 24:13 - 29th
Oct. 30 - Horizon League Championships (Northview Church Course - Carmel, IN) - 23:28 - 10th

2020 Results (run in the spring of 2021)
Feb. 6 - Wright State Winter XC Challenge (Fairborn Community Park - Fairborn, OH) - 18:42 - 8th
Mar. 4 - Horizon League Championships (Northview Church Course - Carmel, IN) - 23:40 - 24th

2019 Results
Sept. 7 - 33rd Annual Running Fit - Detroit Mercy Titan Invitational (Cass Benton Park - Northville, MI) - 20:59.4 - 22nd
Sept. 20 - National Catholic Championships (UND Cross Country Course - South Bend, IN) - 22:22.1 - 123rd
Oct. 5 - Greater Louisville Classic (Tom Sawyer Park - Louisville, KY)- 20:13 - 178th
Oct. 19 - Canisius Alumni Classic (Delaware Park - Buffalo, NY)- 20:58 - 58th
Nov. 2 - Horizon League Cross Country Championships (Valhalla Cross Country Course - Highland Heights, KY) - 23:37 - 69th
Nov. 15 - NCAA Great Lakes Regional (Thomas Zimmer Cross Country Course - Verona, WI) - 24:49 - 193rd

2018 Results
Sept. 8 - 30th Annual Running Fit - Detroit Titan Invitational (Cass Benton Park - Northville, MI) - 20:31 - 34th
Sept. 14 - National Catholic Championships (UND Cross Country Course - South Bend, IN) - 20:51 - 124th
Sept. 29 - Greater Louisville Classic (EP "Tom" Sawyer Park - Louisville, KY) - 20:24 - 143rd
Oct. 13 - Canisius Alumni Classic (Delaware Park - Buffalo, NY) - 20:13 - 40th
Oct. 27 - Horizon League Championships (Wayne E. Dannehl Cross Country Course - Kenosha, WI) - 24:18 - 71st
Nov. 9 - NCAA Great Lakes Regional (Thomas Zimmer Cross Country Course - Verona, WI) - 24:58 - 206th

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