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)

2026 Outdoor:

• Ran 18:28.93 for fifth at Oakland's Golden Grizzlies Invite
• Tallied a career-low 18:03.62 for third at OU's Elaine Leigh Invite
• Just missed the podium, taking ninth in the 1,500m in a personal-record 4:42.67 in the 1,500m

2025-26 Indoor:

• Started the year with a fifth-place effort in the 3,000m with a time of 10:54.57
• Claimed eighth in the mile in 5:29.92 at EMU's Bob Parks Memorial and lowered that to a PR of 5:26.83 for 21st at Michigan's Silverston Invite
• Recorded a career-low 10:34.61 in the 3,000m for 26th and a time of 18:35.42 for 23rd in the 5,000m at the Horizon League Championships
• Scored on the seventh-place distance medley relay and was 20th in the mile in 5:17.17 at the Horizon League Championships

• Did not run in any meets

• Earned ninth in the 3,000m in 11:26.29 at the SVSU Classic
• Registered a season-best 2:53.73 for 25th in the 800m and was 25th in the mile in 5:38.71 at EMU's Bob Parks Memorial
• Posted a season-best 5:37.05 in the mile for 19th at the Akron Invitational
• Recorded a season-low 11:07.32 for 34th in the 3,000m at the Horizon League Championships

• 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