Cedarville University Yellow Jackets

CAREER STATS

Mariah Cruise is in her fourth year with the Lady Jacket track & field program specializing in the throwing events.....best indoor performance in the shot put was a 40-0 effort at Ohio Northern Invitational which earned a sixth-place finish.....placed fourth in the weight throw at the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) Indoor Championships with a 45-8 outing.....recorded a fourth-best 58 individual points during the 2017 outdoor season.....tossed a season-best 40-0 to place third in the shot put at the G-MAC Outdoor Championships.....a career-best 127-8 discus performance earned a second-place spot and a career-best javelin effort of 105-4 placed seventh at the G-MAC Outdoor Championships.....G-MAC Outdoor Second Team.....NCCAA Scholar-Athlete.....G-MAC Academic Team.

2016 - Registered 35 individual points in the indoor campaign.....produced a runner-up finish in the shot put with an indoor season-best 41-8.50 at the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Indoor Championship.....placed second in the shot put (40-6.25) at the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) Indoor Championship.....finished second in the weight throw with an indoor best effort of 46-4.75 at the Cedarville Collegiate Indoor Invitational.....placed third in the weight throw (42-5.5) at the G-MAC Indoor Championship.....tallied a second-best 91 individual points during the outdoor schedule.....captured the shot put title with a school-record 42-3.25 performance at the Yellow Jacket Open.....placed third in the shot put (40-4.75) at the NCCAA Outdoor Championship.....took home the discus title at the G-MAC Outdoor Championship with a 126-0 effort.....placed second in the hammer throw at the G-MAC event with a 141-2 performance.....best javelin toss of the outdoor campaign was 92-11 at the Toledo Invitational.....NCCAA Indoor All-American.....NCCAA Outdoor All-American.....G-MAC Indoor Second Team.....G-MAC Outdoor First Team.

2015 - Posted an indoor-best 39-3.25 (10th-best all-time at CU) in the shot put for a third-place finish at the Ohio Northern Invitational.....a 37-2.5 shot put effort placed third in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) Indoor Championship in Gambier, Ohio.....registered an indoor season best effort of 37-8.5 in the weight throw at the National Christian College Athletic Association Indoor Championship in CU’s Doden Field House.....runner-up in the discus with a 118-3 toss and finished third in the shot put at the G-MAC Outdoor Championship with a 39-7.25 (third-best all-time) performance.....produced outdoor best efforts of 91-9 in the hammer and 70-6 in the javelin.....G-MAC Indoor Third Team.....G-MAC Indoor Freshmen Team.....G-MAC Outdoor Second Team.....G-MAC Outdoor Freshmen Team.

High School - Participated in three sports at Triway High School......four-year letter winner in track & field.....member of Pac-7 league titles in 2011 and 2013.....four-time All Pac-7 First Team selection.....holds school record in the shot put.....four-year letter winner in basketball.....earned North Inland District honorable mention.....alternate for the North/South All-Star basketball game.....also earned four letters in soccer.....three-time All-Tri-County performer.....Senior All-Star Game nominee.

Personal - Dean’s List student as a criminal justice major at Cedarville University.....born 9/27/95 in Wooster, Ohio.....daughter of Kelly and Becky Cruise.....father was a three-year member of the football team and one-year track & field performer at Fort Hays State.....mother participated in basketball and cross country for two years at St. Paul Bible College.....has an older brother.....younger sister, Courtnay, was a two-year member of the basketball team at Baldwin Wallace University.