COLLEGIATE PERSONAL BESTS: HT – 220-0 (67.05m), WT – 62-5 (19.02m)
CAREER RECORDS, AWARDS, AND NOTES
AWARDS:
1x Second Team All-Big Ten (’24 hammer)
1x USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (’24)
RECORDS:
1x Penn State school record holder
- Hammer throw (220-0 (67.05m)
2024 Outdoor
Season: Won silver at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships with a Penn State school record-setting hammer throw mark…Qualified for the NCAA East Region Prelims…Finished 13th at the USATF Olympic Trials in the hammer throw.
UCF Knights Invite (3/22-23): Won her first hammer throw competition as a Nittany Lino with a 206-2 (62.85m) toss in the outdoor season opener. Pepsi Florida Relays (3/29-30): Won the Florida Relays hammer competition with a 211-1 (64.34m) heave. Penn Relays (4/25-27): Came in second place in the hammer competition with a 204-8 (62.39m) effort. Jim Thorpe Invitational (5/3): Continued to ramp up her throws as the postseason approached, this time winning the Jim Thorpe hammer throw competition with a 213-6 (65.09m) throw. Big Ten Outdoor Championships (5/10-12): Took second place at the Big Ten Championships with a school record-setting 220-0 (67.05m) PR…Broke the 18-year-old Nittany Lion record held by Jennifer Leatherman. USATF Olympic Trials (6/21-30): Placed 13th in the U.S. with a 214-9 (65.46m) throw at the Olympic Trials.
2024 Indoor
Season: Did not compete; did not have indoor eligibility left.
BEFORE PENN STATE
Attended Grand Canyon University for four years where she set the school record in the hammer throw…Won the WAC hammer throw title in 2021 and finished as the conference’s runner-up in 2022…Set her lifetime-best hammer throw mark at the CVEATC.
2023 Outdoor
Season: Did not compete.
2023 Indoor
Season: Set collegiate-best marks in the shot put and the weight throw…Placed eighth in the WAC in the shot put.
Friday Night Kick Axe Open (1/13): Won the shot put with a 14.53m effort and won the weight throw with a 19.02m mark. WAC Indoor Championships (2/24-25): Finished eighth in the shot put with a 14.07m mark.
2022 Outdoor
Season: Set her collegiate-best mark in the hammer throw at the Bryan Clay Invitational…Finished second in the WAC in the hammer throw.
Bryan Clay Invitational (4/13-15): Won the hammer throw with a 202-11 (61.85m) collegiate-best mark. WAC Outdoor Championships (5/12-14): Finished with a silver medal in the hammer throw, going 202-1 (61.61m). NCAA West Prelims (5/25-28): In her first NCAA competition, finished 33rd in the West region in the hammer throw with a 189-0 (57.60m) mark.
2022 Indoor
Season: Competed in three regular season meets in the shot put and weight throw.
2021 Outdoor
Season: Won the WAC hammer throw championship and set a lifetime-best mark in the discus throw.
WAC Outdoor Championships (5/13-15): Won the hammer throw with a 56.59m effort…Finished seventh in the conference in the shot put, going 13.22m…Set a lifetime-best mark in the discus throw with a 38.82m effort.
2021 Indoor
Season: Competed in three meets during indoor season.
GCU Outdoor Invitational (2/3): Set a season-best shot put effort with a 12.22m throw.
2020 Outdoor
Season: Cancelled due to COVID-19.
2020 Indoor
Season: Finished fourth in the WAC in the weight throw.
WAC Indoor Championships (2/28-29): Came in fourth place in the weight throw with a 16.77m throw.
2019 Outdoor
Season: Competed the shot, discus, and hammer throws in six meets in her first outdoor season.
WAC Outdoor Championships (5/9-11): Finished seventh in the hammer throw (50.18m), eighth in the shot put (13.24m), and 14th in the discus throw.
2019 Indoor
Season: Competed in her first collegiate meets.
PERSONAL
Daughter of Andre and Sophia McDonald…Has one sister, Danielle…Pursuing a Master’s Degree in Human Resources and Employee Relations at Penn State…Chose to use her graduate eligibility at Penn State because “I believe them to be equipped to successfully provide athletes and students with the necessary tools to execute their goals and the confidence of knowing that whichever career path they choose, they have been properly prepared for it.”