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Cedarville University Yellow Jackets

Events Results

2020 Men's Track & Field Roster

Hillsdale Athletics

Ford McElroy

  • Position Distance
  • Height 5-7
  • Weight 125
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Whipple, OH
  • High School Fort Frye

Biography

CAREER STATS

2019-20
  • Appeared in four cross country meets as a senior
  • Opened the season with a career-best 8K of 25:58 at Indiana Wesleyan placing 12th of 184 runners
  • Timed in 26:04 at the G-MAC Championship to finish 32nd
  • USTFCCCA Division II All-Academic honors and NCCAA Scholar-Athlete

2018-19
  • Established career indoor track bests in the mile (4:35.02), 3K (9:03.66), and 5K (15:32.60)
  • Set three more PR’s outdoors in the 1,500 (4:13.81), 5K (15:26.04), and 10K (32:15.49)
  • Competed in five cross country meets as a junior featuring a season-best 8K at the All-Ohio Championship (26:28)
  • Timed in 27:56 at the Rock Pre-National Meet
  • NCCAA Scholar-Athlete and G-MAC Academic Team

2017-18
  • Set an indoor PR in the 3,000 meters of 9:03.92 at Hillsdale
  • Placed fifth in the G-MAC 3K in 9:11.62
  • Came in ninth in the G-MAC Outdoor 10K in a career-best 32:44.84
  • Fastest 5K was 15:38.10 at Miami
  • On the track, season-best 3K of 9:03.92 and placed fifth in the G-MAC in 9:11.62
  • Came in ninth in the G-MAC Outdoor 10K in a season-best 32:44.84
  • Participated in five meets during sophomore campaign
  • Fastest 8K of the season was 26:54 to place 35th in the G-MAC Championship and finished 28th in the Friendship Invitational in 27:22
  • NCCAA Scholar-Athlete and G-MAC Academic Team

2016-17
  • Competed in five indoor  as a rookie
  • Placed fifth in the 3,000 meters at the G-MAC Championship with a 9:11.62 performance
  • Finished third in the 10K at the All-Ohio Outdoor Championship with a season-best 33:50.65
  • Produced a fourth-place finish in the 10K (34:31.70) at the Yellow Jacket Outdoor Open
  • G-MAC Indoor Freshmen Team and NCCAA Scholar-Athlete
  • Competed in five cross country meets with a best 8K of 26:40 at the Wilmington Classic

High School
  • Four-year letter winner in cross country and track & field at Fort Frye High School
  • Ohio Valley Athletic Conference 3,200 meter champion on the track as a senior
  • Two-time Academic All-Ohio in cross country

Personal
  • Dean’s List student as a mathematics major at Cedarville University
  • Born August 27, 1997 in Dayton, Ohio
  • Son of Allen and Beth McElroy
  • Father was a distance runner for the Yellow Jackets from 1988-92
  • Younger sister, Mary Kate, is a junior distance runner at Ohio Wesleyan University
  • Has another younger sister and two younger brothers

Historical Player Information

  • 2017Freshman

    Distance
    5'7" 125 lbs
  • 2018Sophomore

    Distance
    5'7" 125 lbs
  • 2019Junior

    Distance
    5'7" 125 lbs
  • 2020Senior

    Distance
    5'7" 125 lbs